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• MLB appears to have adopted an even less fan-friendly weather policy

During a weather delay April 2 at Rate Field | Matt Marton-Imagn Images It’s as if the league has nothing but contempt for its fans. Last week, I wrote about how MLB apparently botched a rain delay in a Phillies/Braves game in Atlanta. They made the teams wait two hours and 45 minutes even though this was getaway day for both teams. It was a divisional game and could have easily been suspe...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 14

On this day 39 years ago, Greg Walker crushed two homers — then had a crushing injury. | Chicago Tribune Greg Walker’s pesky wrist sidelines him again 1900 Deaf and mute player Billy Hoy signed with the White Sox after a 12-year career starring in the American Association, National League and Players’ League. He played just two years with the White Sox, including their pennant-winning debu...2025
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• Bag over your head? Here’s a reason to briefly peek in at Rate Field

Don’t come for the baseball, just attend for the free giveaways and special guests. | Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Amidst on-field woes, the Chicago White Sox offer a nostalgic escape While we feel the need to cover our eyes with our hands or a paper sack when watching 2025 Chicago White Sox baseball, today, the team announced a schedule of special guest appearances spanning April, May...2025
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• The aggressive arrogance of the mediocre

Justin Casterline/Getty Images Endemic to our world today, as White Sox fans it’s hitting us right between the eyes The White Sox were defeated on Tuesday in Cleveland’s home opener, in embarrassing fashion: 1-0, lost in a punchless bottom of the ninth that saw the highest-leverage reliever in the bullpen give up a single and three walks to hand the game to the Guardians. The club has lost...2025
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• Do all roads lead to despair for the White Sox under Jerry Reinsdorf’s ownership?

Jerry Reinsdorf, presiding. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images There is only one possible happy ending for the team, and it’s an unlikely one All optimism for the Chicago White Sox’s 2025 season has been extinguished as rapidly as it was built up. The Sox started the season strong with an Opening Day win over the Angels, but Chicago is back to disappointing fans as the sole owners of last place...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 2

On this day a year ago, Garrett Crochet set a couple of franchise marks. | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images Garrett Crochet makes history in his second start 1900 The White Sox played their first-ever game, an exhibition win over the University of Illinois baseball team, 10-9. That season, the American League wasn’t considered a major league (the AL would band together with the National League...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025

It was a good start | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Let’s be honest. You’re not here to read what I wrote today. You’re here to talk about the game yesterday. I’m not going to link to a bunch of different recaps posts. Matthew has got you covered with the RR recap. I won’t post too much more about that TOOTBLAN in the 8th (Pete Grathoff has me ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Brewers

Brian Bannister and Co. must see something young righthander Shane Smith. He could be a diamond in the rough for Chicago this season. | Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images It’s a Rule 5 reunion as Shane Smith gets the start against former club Today at 3:10 p.m. CT, Chicago (8-15) takes on the Milwaukee Brewers (13-11) at the American Family Fields of Phoenix. So far, Spring T...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images This is a division of haves and have-nots. Last year, three AL Central teams made the postseason and four finished over .500. This was largely because they all fattened up against the awful White Sox. The Twins, Tigers, Guardians and Royals went 42-10 against the White Sox. Wow. The Cubs, meanwhile, were 10-6 against the AL Central last year. So that...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2259: Rated Rooker

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Cody Bellinger trade, the Yankees’ and Cubs’ next moves, Guaranteed Rate Field changing to Rate Field, and the results of MLB’s inquiry into pitcher injuries. Then (31:39) they bring back A’s slugger Brent Rooker to discuss his monster 2024, his work as a World Series correspondent, misconceptions […]...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 1

Legendary pitching coach Dave Duncan first gained prominence in the role with the White Sox, not the A’s or Cardinals. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images A legendary pitching coach gets his start in Chicago 1946 Future White Sox owner (and current Cleveland owner) Bill Veeck has his right foot amputated. Veeck had suffered a grievous injury to his leg while serving in the South Pacif...2024
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• On the eve of 121 losses

An evergreen sentiment among White Sox fans. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The White Sox are on track to surpass the 1962 Mets as early as tomorrow If you had told me in 2019 that just years later the White Sox would implode and make history by being the worst team in Major League Baseball, I would’ve rolled my eyes and gone back to browsing for a new José Abreu jersey. Yet here we are, on th...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: August 25

Don’t look at the back of Jack Perconte’s uniform ... his name might be spelled wrong! | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images Another case of a misspelled jersey 1913 The White Sox purchased the contract of a future Hall-of-Famer, pitcher Urban “Red” Faber, from Des Moines for $3,500. Faber would go on to win 254 games, with four seasons of 20 or more wins with Chicago. In the 1917 World...2024
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• White Sox 2025 Media Day: Reviewing the new food and drink items at the ballpark

The White Sox unveiled a new signature milkshake for the 2025 season, to go along with the phenom Campfire Milkshake from last season. | Allie Wesel/South Side Sox Oh look, another milkshake! The 2025 Chicago White Sox media day did not disappoint, especially with this season’s new signature food items. Each year the organization continues to up its game in their offerings around the ballp...2025
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes

Welcome, Burkey Boy. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Sean Burke debuts his arm in the majors and experiences the classic lack of South Side offense Author’s note: For tonight’s game coverage, I’ll be abandoning illeism, opting instead for a personal story due to the circumstances of late-season Chris Getz exhaustion and burnout. If you dislike that, maybe you should skip this one altogether. T...2024
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• The metaphorical White Sox rebuild failed, but the literal rebuild may be exactly what Chicago needs

Wells Street, a vision of The 78’s future. | 78Chicago.com A new stadium may not be a bad thing By now, we’ve all absorbed the news about vilified billionaire White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf’s plans for a new stadium. In these uneasy economic times, it seems absurd that a diamond-encrusted plutocrat would have the nerve to beg for another $1 billion of taxpayers’ money because he’s bored ...2024
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• South Loop Sox ... again

The 1960s South Loop Sox Park ... that never was. | stadiumpage.com White Sox in “serious” talks to build new stadium in the 78? Late Wednesday evening, news trickled out on Twitter that the Chicago White Sox were in “serious” talks to build a new ballpark on a vacation parcel of land at Clark & Roosevelt streets in the South Loop. While the source of this news is a Sun-Times article, wi...2024
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• White Sox media erasure goes NASCAR, despite a sponsored car
Ty Dillon, in the White Sox Chevrolet, finished in 35th place in the Grant Park 220 on Sunday afternoon. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images The only Chicago team that paid to have their logo in the race didn’t even get a mention in NBC’s opening sports reel Happy Independence Day, White Sox fans. I hope you’ve finished shop-vac’ing the sewer water out of your basement and are readying yourself...2023
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"Former All-Star lefty Mark Buehrle, who played 12 of his 16 seasons with the White Sox, will be immortalized with a statue outside of Rate Field in a July 11 ceremony."

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"Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals tosses his bat after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on April 15, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois."

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"The White Sox said four fans were injured in a hit-and-run collision outside Guaranteed Rate Field on Tuesday night."

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"" broke out at Guaranteed Rate Field as manager Tony La Russa and the Chicago White Sox blew a five-run lead and lost to the Texas Rangers 11-9 in 10 innings on Saturday."

2021
"In a frightening scene at Guaranteed Rate Field on Tuesday evening, Athletics right-hander Chris Bassitt was carted off the field after being struck on the side of the head by a comeback line drive off the bat of White Sox outfielder Brian Goodwin."

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"17 at Guaranteed Rate Field, the Monday following the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas."

2018
"The White Sox plan to extend the protective netting at Guaranteed Rate Field to the end of each dugout and over the top of the dugout, as announced by the team Friday at SoxFest."

2017
"The rain and cold didn't seem to slow down Detroit's offense or Justin Verlander, based on the Tigers' 6-3 victory over the White Sox on Tuesday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field in what was a makeup contest for Monday's regularly scheduled season opener."

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"The Guaranteed Rate Field era is off to a bad start for the White Sox"

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• Grading the Opening Day roster

It’s White Sox Opening Day at Rate Field! | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Presenting your 2025 White Sox ... please direct all grievances where they belong, the team’s front office Today is officially the first day of the new and improved White Sox — or that’s at least what general manager Chris Getz wants fans to believe. For most Sox fans, today is ...2025
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• Chicago White Sox 2025 Season Advisory

Jonathan Daniel/ Getty Images Each year, the White Sox issue their “season advisory” pertaining not only to the busy opening weekend but including procedures in place all season at the park. In this case, it’s probably best to pass this on in full, with only style edits: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, March 24, 2025 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2025 SEASON ADVISORY Gameday Information for Fans Atten...2025
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• 2025 Chicago White Sox Media Day: merch, food and giveaways

Rate Field being prepped for Opening Day! | Allie Wesel/South Side Sox Ready or not, here the season comes Last year’s motto at Rate Field was “Better at the Ballpark,” and in 2025 they are continuing in their endeavor to prove to you that this is true. Media Day 2025 was filled with a first look at the new team store, previews of the 2025 promotional items, and new ballpark offerings on t...2025
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• The 2025 White Sox promo schedule is out!

Four straight complete games in the 2005 ALCS are commemorated with this unique bobblehead giveaway. | Chicago White Sox Celebrate 125 years on the South Side with a variety of unique promotional items Hello, White Sox fans! The season is drawing closer each day, and Spring Training arrives in about two weeks. With that comes the promotional schedule, so let’s take a peek at the press rele...2025
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• Tigers 6, White Sox 3: Another day, another L

Andrew Vaughn is slashing .321/.365/.500 over his last 15 games. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Detroit sweeps Chicago and hands them their 101st defeat I know, shocker. It was another loss and anemic offensive showing by the White Sox. They move to 8-38 against the AL Central and 31-101 overall. To call this season miserable is an understatement. I’ve genuinely run out of words to describe ...2024
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• A crosstown conversation before the Crosstown Classic concludes

Crosstown Classic Trophy Check out Visiting Dugout before the game The Cubs will head to the South Side of Chicago for the last two games of this year’s Crosstown Classic this weekend on Friday and Saturday. It will result in a rare Sunday off day for the North Siders. As I’ve done for a few seasons now, I sat down with our friends from the Sox Populi podcast for an edition of their series...2024
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• Bears stadium proposal provides context for Browns stadium future

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Costs are skyrocketing and teams want the public to chip in The relationship between pro sports teams and the cities that they play in is an intimate one. For the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland Browns, that connection is much deeper. The Browns were once stolen from the great fanbase and the people of Cleveland and the fans of the Browns made sure th...2024
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• Nitpicking the Royals

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Will Smith (31) throws the ball in the sixth inning during game one of a double header against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. | Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports The team isn’t perfect. Let’s examine the flaws. The Royals made it as high as sixth on the MLB Power Rankings this week. They’re still projected to 32.5% playoff odds per FanGraphs ...2024
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• White Sox series preview: Injuries have made a bad team worse

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Can the Royals pull off another sweep? Fans knew it was going to be a long year on the South Side this year. It’s not good if management is already refuting reports they are considering firing the manager in the second week of the season. But early injuries have decimated an already-thin roster. The White Sox are without their top three hitters - third ba...2024
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• Rose, retro, and run the bases: White Sox opening week hits it out of the park

It’s that time year when the White Sox haven’t yet lost a game. Enjoy it while it lasts. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Chicago celebrates 125 years with a jam-packed schedule Ready or not, here it comes! The Chicago White Sox will kick off the 2025 season this week with a wide variety of experiences for the opening series on March 27-30 against the Los Angeles Angels at Rate Field. Fans can...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Apollo Fried not pictured, but that’s still a good dog.) Happy Friday friends! As predicted earlier this week the news stories are slowing down (somehow this is the last Friday before Christmas? How did that happen?!) Max Kepler has left the Twins on a one-year deal; a few potential Hall of Famers have a case made for them; Bobby Witt Jr. lov...2024
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• So, Jerry Reinsdorf is going to sell the White Sox and lose millions for his family and send a 125-year-old team to Nashville, of all places, at the same time he’s building his sandlot field in The 78? Got it

If Jerry Reinsdorf has a final trick up his sleeve to steal from taxpayers, it’s this baby: The 78. And when push comes to shove, he’ll probably get his way. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Please, please, please, please tell me you’re not that gullible Apparently bored with the baseball playoffs and looming offseason, it seems every sportswriter ...2024
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• Jerry Reinsdorf is in ‘active discussions’ to sell the White Sox

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images ... and it’s possible the South Siders could even leave town. Josh opened discussion on this topic in BCB After Dark but I thought I’d weigh in with my thoughts on the report in The Athletic that White Sox managing general partner Jerry Reinsdorf is, after years of denying he was interested in selling the team, is now apparently doing just that: Longtime majo...2024
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• Tigers open with a flourish behind Verlander
The rain and cold didn't seem to slow down Detroit's offense or Justin Verlander, based on the Tigers' 6-3 victory over the White Sox on Tuesday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field in what was a makeup contest for Monday's regularly scheduled season opener. As for Jose Quintana? His first career Opening Day start didn't go exactly as planned....2017
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• Red Sox hit six HRs to power past White Sox
A pitching matchup of Red Sox ace Chris Sale and White Sox ace Jose Quintana on Tuesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field not only meant Sale's return to Chicago but also figured to be a low-scoring, quick-paced game....2017
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• Tigers open with a flourish behind Verlander
The rain and cold didn't seem to slow down Detroit's offense or Justin Verlander, based on the Tigers' 6-3 victory over the White Sox on Tuesday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field in what was a makeup contest for Monday's regularly scheduled season opener. As for Jose Quintana? His first career Opening Day start didn't go exactly as planned....2017
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• Pomeranz fans 8 to give Boston series win
Drew Pomeranz threw seven innings of one-run ball and benefited from a four-run sixth inning as the Red Sox knocked off the White Sox, 4-1, and claimed a series victory at Guaranteed Rate Field on Wednesday night....2017
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• Pomeranz fans 8 to give Boston series win
Drew Pomeranz threw seven innings of one-run ball and benefited from a four-run sixth inning as the Red Sox knocked off the White Sox, 4-1, and claimed a series victory at Guaranteed Rate Field on Wednesday night....2017
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• Royals roll to keep pace in Wild Card chase
Whit Merrifield drove in three runs and Salvador Perez had two run-scoring doubles as the Royals rolled to an 8-2 win over the White Sox on Saturday night at Guaranteed Rate Field....2017
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• White Sox end 6-game skid with walk-off hit
The White Sox ended a six-game losing streak with a 5-4 walkoff victory over the Padres Saturday night at Guaranteed Rate Field, on a night when the first 20,000 fans received Hawk Harrelson Alarm clocks....2017
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• Rookies' homers lead A's past White Sox
Matt Olson, Jaycob Brugman and Franklin Barreto each slugged their first career big league homers Saturday as the Oakland Athletics took a 10-2 win over the Chicago White Sox in front of a sellout crowd on the day of Mark Buehrle's jersey retirement at Guaranteed Rate Field....2017
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• Angels 3, White Sox 2: Five-Hour Loss

Nothing like March baseball on a field without a roof! | David Banks-Imagn Images Rain rain go away, or rather, have a three-hour delay In typical spring baseball fashion, this afternoon the Chicago White Sox lost to the Angels, 3-2, after a chaotic weather day. The Angels won two in a row after a resounding defeat on Opening Day, and will leave Rate Field with a series win. The game start...2025
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• Revamped SoxFest focuses on the future of the team ... while surrounded by the past

SoxFest 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 ...2025
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• So, Jerry Reinsdorf is going to sell the White Sox and lose millions for his family and send a 125-year-old team to Nashville, of all places, at the same time he’s building his sandlot field in The 78? Got it
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?

Apparently, billionaire Jerry Reinsdorf needs more money, and he doesn’t even feel he needs to ask you for it. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We’ve heard this song and dance before Haven’t we heard this story before? Jerry Reinsdorf is again making specious and unsubstantiated claims that the ballpark his White Sox play in inhibits them from competin...2024
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• The 78 proposal: One White Sox con job, coming up

These guys had nothing on Jerry Reinsdorf. | crimereads.com That hand you feel in your pocket is Jerry Reinsdorf’s The White Sox have made negligible news on the baseball front this offseason, but they made the headlines big time this week after the Sun-Times ran an article on discussions with city officials about building a stadium on a chunk of old railroad yard known as The 78, bounded...2024
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• South Loop Sox ... again
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• White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf considering relocating, selling team

Chicago White Sox chairman, and majority owner Jerry Reinsdorf, has discussed selling his stake in the team. | David Banks/Getty Images The sports news cycle is shaken by yet another relocation rumor, but this time our South Siders are the subject It is a tumultuous time to be a fan of a major league baseball team. Several franchises are engaged in protracted talks with city officials and...2023
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• Goodbye Lucas, goodbye Reynaldo
Yes, friends, just 22 months ago, this was the state of the White Sox, with Lucas Giolito, Carlos Rodón and Reynaldo López celebrating a division title. They are all still chasing the playoffs in 2023 — on other teams. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images You deserved a little bit better than the White Sox It’s never easy saying goodbye, and certainly not so for two cogs of the White Sox, Lucas Giol...2023
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• White Sox media erasure goes NASCAR, despite a sponsored car
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