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• Who are these guys (or: What did you do with our White Sox)?Just like he planned it: Chase Meidroth smashed a home run in the third inning to stretch the White Sox lead to 4-1. | Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images South Siders scold Kansas City in a 4-1 flex Does a home run count if the hitter doesn’t know he hit a homer? If so, it’s only fair the White Sox won this game, as both players who tilted long balls out knew it — even mighty mite Chase Meidroth,...2025Read about White Sox -
• Game Thread: Royals at White SoxLook at this lunatic, having fun playing baseball: The Kyle Teel Era has begun. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Are the vibes real? There are crickets chirping at SSS headquarters, as most of our staff is out taking in today’s game together. Kudos to Melissa Sage-Bollenbach for organizing the group, and it seems certain that today’s coverage will feature photos and/or quotes from the gathering...2025See more articles White Sox news today -
• White Sox 11, Red Sox 1: Chase Meidroth vs The WorldWe have entered the Chase Meidroth Era. All hail our new overlord! | Emilee Chinn/Getty Images Boston’s comedy of errors opens the door for a big Pale Hose win Happy Friday, friends! And welcome to the Chase Meidroth Era, White Sox fans! If you tuned into this battle of Sox, you were treated to a rare, fun baseball game for the South Siders. And let’s face it, fun games are will be a rarit...2025See also White Sox news and rumors -
• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotionsJim and Landon Thome celebrate Nazareth Academy’s 2023 state championship. | Ted Piton Son Landon shines in father’s return to roots Jim Thome, Major League Baseball legend, Hall-of-Famer, and former White Sox great, returned to his roots in Bartonville, Ill., last week as the hitting coach for his son Landon’s high school team, Nazareth Academy (7-0). The Roadrunners faced off in a doub...2025See also Jim Thome news today -
• White Sox single-game tickets go on sale this ThursdayIt’s been a LONG 125 years. | Chicago White Sox 2025 Promo Schedule card Celebrating 125 years of South Side baseball Mark your calendars, South Side enthusiasts! Single-game tickets for the 2025 Chicago White Sox season go on sale to the general public at 2 p.m. CT on Thursday, February 13. If you’re looking to jump the line, White Sox Insider newsletter subscribers get early access at n...2025Read about White Sox breaking news today -
• You miss baseball? The wait is almost over!The action starts soon! Opening Day is March 27! | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Hold on to your hats because the 2025 season starts in just 50 days With Opening Day just 50 days away, a glimmer of hope shines through this mid-week hump day. As a Sox fan, the start of a new season can be a bittersweet time – a reminder of the past few years’ struggles alongside the promise of a f...2025See more articles Kiley McDaniel latest news
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• Game Thread: Royals at White Sox
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• White Sox New Year’s ResolutionsLeslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Chrystal O’Keefe, Allie Wesel, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Malachi Hayes, Dante Jones, Joe Resis, Year of the Hamster and Brett Ballantini each pick the one thing the South Siders MUST do in 2024 On the heels of our Soxivus 2023 content comes our first group article and podcast of 2024, White Sox Resolutions. The title is pretty explanato...2024Check it out White Sox -
• Bird App Recap: How Sweep it Is(n’t)
all this time it took you to get yourself straight ... it’s too late... Your 43-66 Chicago White Sox look to escape the sweltering Texas heat without being swept by the 62-46 Rangers. The Pale Hose, losers of three straight, are 1-4 vs Texas on the season and look to even up their all-time record at Globe Life Field with a win. Texas looks to complete the sweep and stay atop the AL West, fending o...2023Read about White Sox injuries
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• White Sox avoid sweep, 6-2
Big turnaround day for Michael Kopech. | Al Bello/Getty Images Nice audition day for Tim Anderson The big question coming into today’s game against the Mets was whether Michael Kopech could find the strike zone (well, next-biggest to who’d be traded by game time, which turned out to be no one). Mostly, he did, and the Mets couldn’t solve his fastball at all. Kopech only threw a little mor...2023Continue with White Sox
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• Know Your (Not) Enemy: Oakland A’s
Throw away the key while you’re at it. | Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images Solidarity now, solidarity forever, but also let’s maybe win a series The Sox head into Oakland, a city which for years meant sure and certain losses for the South Siders, but now is an empty monument to the greed and cynicism of our billionaire failures and their bankruptcy of decency, ethics, and ima...2023Click for news about Michael Zagaris Oakland injuries
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• Notes from White Sox Spring Training: Flat offense, but a lot to be encouraged by
Jake Burger makes another forever fan. | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox For the first time in a while, we had a writer covering the Cactus League! GOODYEAR, ARIZ. — It was a gorgeous day in Goodyear after there was hard-pouring rain and flooding in some areas of Arizona yesterday. Yes — I visit the desert, and it rains and floods. Pretty much par for my game. M...2023See more articles White Sox injury status
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• South Side Soxivus 2023: Gifts
As you might expect, much of what we hope to gift the White Sox centers around the front office and Rick Hahn. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images This Christmas morning, some of our staffers share what they hope they could give the White Sox for 2023 We started this Soxivus season with the Calling of Managers, then moving on to Grievances and Feats of Strength, and the Worst and Best Games of...2022Read about White Sox injury status
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• SoxivusFest 2022: Feats of Strength
Three years ago, at the last SoxFest, Ozzie Guillén was happy to be invited: “I feel like Im back home. I feel happy.” The White Sox may be on the verge of bringing him all the way back home three years later. | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We’ve aired our Grievances, including the White Sox canceling SoxFest. So we’re creating our own SoxFest fun You d...2022See also Ozzie Guillén injury report
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• Soxivus 2022: The Airing of Grievances
These two, man. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images With the dust settled on a devastatingly mismanaged White Sox season, a dozen South Side Sox writers come together to wail and moan over all the misdeeds I gotta lot of problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it!— Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza from Seinfeld’s “The Strike.” While ...2022See more articles White Sox injury
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• Know Your Enemy: Arizona DiamondbacksArizona Diamondbacks logo circa 1998. If the White Sox play but everyone has tuned out and no one watches, did they really play? The final home stand of 2023 is upon us, as your Chicago White Sox welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks to Sox Park. As this fetid carcass of a baseball season winds to its close for the South Siders, the Diamondbacks come in with something left to play for. Arizon...2023Read about Arizona Diamondbacks -
• South Side Sox Podcast 133 — Winter Meetings Review
Jordan Hass, Dante Jones, Chrystal O’Keefe, Allie Wesel, Joe Resis and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach join Brett Ballantini to discuss deals made, and White Sox whiffs Brett Ballantini hosts Chrystal O’Keefe, Allie Wesel, Joe Resis, Dante Jones, Jordan Hass and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach in our new podcast that saves the sucky for the end — yeah, the White Sox non-moves — and gets downright silly in the fin...2022Click for news about Joe Resis
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• You miss baseball? The wait is almost over!
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• White Sox place five prospects in The Athletic’s Top 100 and snag six spots on MLB Pipeline’s listConnor McKnight interviews White Sox Director of Development Paul Janish and top prospects Braden Montgomery, Kyle Teel, Noah Schultz, and Hagen Smith at SoxFest last weekend. | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox A combination of skillful trades and astute drafting has propelled the farm to new heights According to experts, the White Sox farm system is healthy again and boasts several...2025See also White Sox contract rumors -
• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and missesThe 20th-anniversary celebration of the 2005 World Series team began on Friday, with SoxFest Live. Chuck Garfien reminisced with Harold Baines, Mark Buehrle, Freddy García, and José Contreras (Billy Russo, interpreter). | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Newly-imagined fan fest was a winner, but needs to address a few growing pains In the middle of a bitter cold Illinois winter, th...2025See more World Series -
• Revamped SoxFest focuses on the future of the team ... while surrounded by the pastSoxFest live at the Ramova! | Kristina Airdo/South Side Sox And Mark Buehrle finally gets a statue! For the first time since 2020, the Chicago White Sox finally brought back SoxFest, and what used to be a massive event held at hotel convention centers with thousands of fans has been pared down into a much smaller space and a live-event format. It was held at the historic Ramova Theater in ...2025See more articles Mark Buehrle contract -
• Ladies’ Night Podcast 3 — It’s a mess, and we’re here for itDelia Ritchie, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, and Allie Wesel wonder how bad it can actually get In the third episode of the Ladies’ Night podcast, Delia Ritchie, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, and Allie Wesel discuss several topics related to our beloved — or despised, depending on the day — South Siders. Whether you’re a die-hard White Sox fan or not, there’s something for everyone. So, sit back, relax, and...2024See more Sage Bollenbach -
• Ladies’ Night Podcast 2 — We manifested a win!Kristina Airdo, Jacki Krestel, Hannah LaMotta, and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach have some early-season takes In the second episode of the brand-new Ladies’ Night podcast, Kristina Airdo, Jacki Krestel, Hannah LaMotta, and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach discuss several topics related to our beloved — or despised, depending on the day — South Siders. Whether you’re a die-hard White Sox fan or not, there’s some...2024Check it out Hannah LaMotta contract rumors -
• Opening Day Gamethread: Tigers at White SoxThe sun rises, perhaps for the final time for the White Sox as a .500 team in 2024. | Chicago White Sox Plus, your South Side Sox coverage guide for the season! The season sure did sneak up on me. But as I take my traditional leadoff spot in the batting order with the Opening Day game, let’s take a second to outline our South Side Sox season ahead, before getting to lineups and again scra...2024See also White Sox salary rumors -
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• Soxivus Week 4 companion: Soxivus MiraclesSanta Southpaw has seen 2024, and knows what sort of miracles have to happen to make the White Sox watchable. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Tommy Barbee, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Malachi Hayes and Brett Ballantini determine what sort of miracle needs to take place for White Sox fandom in 2024 to feel in any way worthwhile Welcome to Soxivus 2023! For those of you actively following the W...2023See also White Sox salary
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• White Sox 11, Red Sox 1: Chase Meidroth vs The World
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• White Sox place five prospects in The Athletic’s Top 100 and snag six spots on MLB Pipeline’s list
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• Blue Jays 9, White Sox 3: Back to 20 games underVictory on Victoria Day for the Blue Jays. | Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Facing South Side pitching certainly cures many an offensive malady On a Victoria Day afternoon affair in Toronto, the Chicago White Sox managed to out-mid the Blue Jays on their way to their fourth straight loss and 34th of 2024. Erick Fedde struggled all afternoon, allowing five runs on seven hits in six innings of ...2024Read about Blue Jays statistics -
• Bird App Recap: Goose EggsYour 2024 Chicago White Sox, making baseball history with every shutout ... Hello friends, and welcome to another Bird App Recap! The last time I tweet-capped Pale Hose happenings on a baseball diamond, the plucky South Siders bravely faced major league competition for the very first time in the young 2024 season. Too bad the White Sox failed to field a major league-quality squad on Day one, and ...2024Check it out White Sox scores -
• White Sox New Year’s Resolutions
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• SSS Staff Predictions 2023, revisited: Give it up for the names at the top!Some great picks, some terrible ones ... let’s review what we got right and wrong about this past summer We had one more prognosticator step with predictions than we did last year, which made a battle among 22 of us to see who was most prescient in picking the winners and losers of 2023. This was our third year of doing this, and no one was more surprised than I was to see who came out on top. Let...2023Click for news about White Sox stats -
• Here come the 2024 Top Prospects!Kannapolis Cannon Ballers The Top 100 Prospects countdown and the Top Prospect vote are coming to a site very near you It’s that time of year, when we simultaneously count up our SSS Top Prospects, from 100 to 1, while gauging our readership’s picks for the top two or three dozen prospects in the system. As always, I will be proctoring the Top Prospect Vote. Each round will feature 10 pla...2023Check it out Kannapolis Cannon Ballers stats -
• South Side Sox 2023 Player of the Year: Luis Robert Jr.Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox La Pantera sprinted out to a lead this summer, then lapped the field This is the third year of a collaboration that centers around SSS readership’s MVP and Cold Cat game polls and culminates in our staff artist, Mitch Ransdell, crafting original art to celebrate each winner. We’ve named 84 MVPs from 2021-23, and Mitch has drawn original art for approximately ...2023Read about Side Sox stats -
• Padres 3, White Sox 2: The bullpen takes, but bullpenning gives back“It’s a shame if it’s being portrayed that we were on the cheap on this thing. That’s really interesting because, holy s—, that’s a quarter of a billion dollars we offered with a chance to be higher than what he’s getting.” | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Ten different voices can’t keep the South Siders from their fate, even on a “bullpenning” night at South Side Sox [Tonight carries on a tra...2023See more articles White Sox
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• Who are these guys (or: What did you do with our White Sox)?
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• White Sox 11, Red Sox 1: Chase Meidroth vs The World
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and misses
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• Astros 5, White Sox 3: The Bullpen Strikes AgainWhite Sox enemies ... the both of them. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this story before ... There are few things more enjoyable than watching the Astros lose to your team, and for an inning or two it felt like we might be able to enjoy one of this season’s few pleasures by taking two of three from Houston. Unfortunately, that was not the case this afternoon as the Pa...2024Click for news about White Sox -
• In a miserable season, a little Crosstown Classic brings the fun in a house-dividedDon’t let the smiles fool you. We take this thing seriously. | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach A Sox vs. Cubs inter-family rivalry makes for a high-intensity household experience Yes, I married a North Sider, but in his defense, he’s a Central Illinois Cubs fan, which is truly different from a Chicagoland fan. You see, they despise the St. Louis Cardinals and don’t even bother with the White Sox...2024Check it out Crosstown Classic -
• Sox Populi Podcast 176 — Cringing toward CrosstownDi Billick, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Brett Ballantini preview Crosstown play and revisit the horribleness of the Chicago White Sox Hey, it’s been more than a month since the mothership landed, but Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Di Billick and Brett Ballantini got on board in advance of Crosstown play to talk White Sox, and quite a bit of other stuff. Buckle in: With Di covering for South Side Sox on...2024Visit the page Sox Populi -
• Blue Jays 9, White Sox 3: Back to 20 games under
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• Ladies’ Night Podcast 4 — the one where we barely talk about the White SoxThe girls talk City Connect jerseys, cheers and jeers around MLB, and a little grumbling about the South Siders In the fourth episode of the Ladies’ Night podcast Hannah LaMotta, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Allie Wesel discuss several topics related to our beloved — or despised, depending on the day — South Siders. Whether you’re a die-hard White Sox fan or not, there’s something for everyone. So,...2024Check it out White Sox -
• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs
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• White Sox 10, Rockies 5: Seven run surge leads to winLenyn Sosa rounding the bases after his three-run home run in the eighth inning to extend the lead to 10-5 | Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The South Siders come from behind and score seven runs in the eighth inning, more than in the first two games of the series combined The Chicago White Sox won the finale of the three-game set against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. In the bat...2023See more White Sox -
• South Side Sox Player of the Week (June 15-22): Zach Remillard
Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox Rookie Remi grabbed base after base in his memorable debut last week, giving his fellow Sox an 11th-hour win It was all smiles last week for White Sox rookie Zach Remillard, who drove in two runs to hoist the Sox over the Seattle Mariners in a 4-3 victory. Remillard, who was born and raised about 80 miles from Cooperstown, waded through the minors for nearly...2023See more Zach Remillard
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• Meet the Players: International Women’s Day Edition with Melissa Sage-BollenbachMelissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Let’s celebrate Melissa! According to the International Women’s Day website, March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. Women should be celebrated daily. I like to think that’s the case at South Side Sox as we consiste...2024Check it out Sage Bollenbach -
• White Sox come from behind the Birds, 10-5Bad Dylan morphed into Good Dylan just in time today. | Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports Dingers and the pen lead the comeback As a general rule, spotting a 4-0 lead in the first inning to the best team in your league is not a desirable strategy. But if it works, it works, and it did for the White Sox this afternoon. Dylan Cease was very much Bad Dylan at the start. The culprit was his bre...2023Read about White Sox -
• White Sox avoid sweep, 6-2
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• South Side Sox 2023 Player of the Year: Luis Robert Jr.
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• Padres 3, White Sox 2: The bullpen takes, but bullpenning gives back
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• Time to clear my heart and head of the 2022 White Sox season
With my buddy by my side, I’m ready to enjoy the season. | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach I’m vowing to enjoy the ride Last season was a not-so-gentle reminder that being a Sox fan can be brutal. At the same time, as we head into 2023, I need to put the beast behind me and take a cue from the players. None of them want to talk about last year. They want to move forward with a renewed perspective ...2023Continue with White Sox
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• Game Thread: Royals at White Sox
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• White Sox single-game tickets go on sale this Thursday
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• You miss baseball? The wait is almost over!
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• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and misses
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• Revamped SoxFest focuses on the future of the team ... while surrounded by the past
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• In a miserable season, a little Crosstown Classic brings the fun in a house-divided
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• Ladies’ Night Podcast 5 — A little bit of everythingThe girls chat about robo umpires, a possible AL Central team competing for the Wild Card, hope in the minors, and White Sox killers In the fifth episode of the Ladies’ Night podcast Hannah LaMotta, Delia Ritchie, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, and Allie Wesel discuss several topics related to our beloved — or despised, depending on the day — South Siders. Whether you’re a die-hard White Sox fan or not,...2024Check it out AL Central -
• Blue Jays 9, White Sox 3: Back to 20 games under
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• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• Opening Day Gamethread: Tigers at White Sox
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• Meet the Players: International Women’s Day Edition with Melissa Sage-Bollenbach
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• Soxivus Week 2 companion: The Airing of GrievancesJonathan Daniel/Getty Images Tommy Barbee, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Dante Jones, Chrystal O’Keefe and Brett Ballantini get out the pitchforks and stick it to the White Sox Welcome to Soxivus 2023! For those of you actively following the White Sox, it may feel like you’ve never left. Between exiling players and announcers, canceling the lone semblance of fan interaction, and the steaming p...2023Read about Jonathan Daniel gossip -
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• Bird App Recap: Cubs 10, White Sox 7
@danielrtripp Baseball sucks, eat arby’s The White Sox are back for the finale after being embarrassed by the Cubs to start the series, and so am I. Here’s to hoping the tweets won’t be as depressing tonight. Tonight's #WhiteSox starters at Guaranteed Rate Field: pic.twitter.com/AT4LHqeLIz— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) July 26, 2023 This might be the Crosstown Series, but let’s tal...2023Read about White Sox scandal
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• Bird App Recap: Cardinals 4, White Sox 3 (10 innings)
Boy do these teams stink. Once again we are here for a Sunday rubber match. And boy, it turns out to be a weird one It’s Lucas Giolito Day, as the White Sox attempt to win another series before the All-Star break. Let’s tweet about it! Lucas starts off with a strike out of Lars Nootbaar. Every time I hear that guy’s name I think of this tweet. https://t.co/7QTQk7UiMQ— Not Larry, White...2023Read about White Sox buzz
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• The Gang says goodbye to Pito
Talking about José Abreu as if unimportant and already gone from the team with Pito in the room — as Rick Hahn did at his end-of-season press conference — means today’s news shouldn’t come as a shock. But it still does. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The stove is hot, and we all just got burned Since the news of José Abreu signing for three years and $60 million with the Houston Astros, fa...2022See also José Abreu whispers
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