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• Today in White Sox History: June 15

On this day 47 years ago, Steve Stone pitched eight innings that capped the 17th White Sox win in 19 games. | Barb Urbanek Steve Stone gets the 1978 club razor-close to .500 1950 It was only the beginning for him: White Sox pitcher Billy Pierce threw a one-hitter, the first of the four he’d have in his career. Pierce shut down the Yankees at Comiskey Park, 5-0. The only Yankees hit that af...2025
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• Game Thread: Royals at White Sox

Look 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...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: May 31

Tony Graffanino, acquired on this day 25 years ago, was outstanding over three-plus seasons for the White Sox. | Keith Torrie/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images A win-win trade with Tampa! 1914 Joe “The Butcher Boy” Benz, (so named because he worked as a butcher in the offseason) fired a no-hitter, beating Cleveland 6-1 at Comiskey Park. The lone Naps run, scored in the fourth inning, ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Orioles

The place the White Sox home could look like if Jerry Reinsdorf had an iota of imagination ... or class. The battle for the bottom continues It’s round two of the series between the teams with the worst records in the American League, and if this one is a pitchers’ duel as was yesterday’s, the edge should go to the White Sox. Sox starter Davis Martin has not only had a fine season, with a ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Orioles

What Orioles and White Sox both hope to beat today. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Second straight game moved up to beat storms Having Wednesday’s game against the Mets moved up because a severe storm forecast for New York paid off for the Sox, as both starting pitchers got discombobulated by the time switch, but the Mets starter more so. Today’s game is moved up fewer hours, but the...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at A’s

Well sure, it’s Starting Pitcher Tyler Gilbert, didn’cha know? | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images On a record losing pace, the South Siders mix it up tonight in Sacto Hey there party people, if you are here reading a game thread about the 2025 Chicago White Sox in Sacramento taking on the A’s at 9:05 p.m. CT, hats off to you: You are a FAN. Or, well, in need of a 12-step program to get off of Rei...2025
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• Four-fifths of the word “booth” is “boot”

Solution to a certain announcer’s work. | pinterest.com But there’s no way the White Sox will boot the boob out of their booth For a while there, thanks to an easy opening homestand, the White Sox were in a tie for first in the AL Central (also tie for last, but we won’t mention that) because of some very good pitching, occasional long balls, and the division reverting to its historically ...2025
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• In memoriam: Remembering the Cubs we lost in 2024

Ken Holtzman | Bettman Archive Rest in peace. At year’s end, it’s a good time to reflect and remember those who passed away throughout the year. In the baseball world in general: Hall of Famers Orlando Cepeda, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Herzog and Willie Mays and notables Bud Harrelson, Pete Rose, Luis Tiant and Fernando Valenzuela. There were also 12 members of the Cubs family who passed aw...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 11

Ron Santo in 1972 | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ron Santo* and Steve Stone move from one side to the other, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 11

On this day 15 years ago, J.J. Putz signed a prove-it deal with the White Sox, in hopes of getting a closer role again in the future. J.J. Putz arrives to make the back of the South Side pen airtight 1924 White Sox superstar second sacker Eddie Collins, who had led the club to a 14-13 record as player-manager to finish out an awful 1923 season, was named the permanent player-manager of the...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 24

After 10 years but just five games in the majors with the White Sox, Fritz Ackley was sold to St. Louis on this day, 60 years ago. Fritz gets trimmed, sold to St. Louis 1943 Joe Kuhel, who had come to the White Sox five years earlier in a swap with Washington for folk hero Zeke Bonura, was sold back to the Nationals. While never quite a star with the White Sox, Kuhel was among the Top 8 in...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 12

On this day 44 years ago, Steve Stone got the honor of his baseball life. | Focus on Sport/Getty Images A former South Side hurler and future broadcaster caps off the season of his life 1920 As a response to the Black Sox scandal that saw members of the White Sox throw the World Series in 1919, baseball owners unanimously elected Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first baseball commissioner. ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: July 31

On this day nine years ago, we lost our greatest southpaw legend, Billy Pierce. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images So long, Billy Pierce 1909 “Sleepy” Bill Burns fired a two-hitter in a doubleheader opener, defeating Walter Johnson in Washington, 1-0. The White Sox also knocked off the Senators in the nightcap behind a complete game from Frank Smith, 4-0, holding Washington to seven hits on th...2024
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• The Three Sox Positives Method

Celebrating a much-needed White Sox win! | Quinn Harris/Getty Images How I’m learning to embrace the good, with help from my friend Sean Despite my often pessimistic attitude towards the White Sox, I try to find the positives. It can be challenging, of course, but sometimes you find a sliver of hope. My friend Sean gives everyone a dose of positivity after each game, even the shutouts an...2024
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• Six Pack of Stats: Blue Jays 7, White Sox 0
Somebody sedate me. | FanGraphs Why are we even here? FanGraphs “We’re mired in mediocrity. That’s not the goal, that’s not acceptable, that’s not what we’re trying to accomplish for the long-term.” — Rick Hahn, July 21, 2016 “A beautiful house takes five years to build. The builder tells you that. After 2.5 years you rant and rave that it’s not good. Is that shocki...2023
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• South Side Soxivus 2022: Worst Games of the Year
Bennett Sousa wonders why he wasn’t allowed to get one final strike on Trea Turner, as fans sit, stunned, after “1-2 Intentional Walk, Part 1.” | David Banks-USA TODAY Sports There were at least 81 choices, so stroll through the schedule and relive some of the worst moments of the year We started this Soxivus season with the Calling of Managers, then moving on to Grievances and Feats of S...2022
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• Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
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"Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox John Schriffen, Paul Janish, Walker McKinven, Will Venable, Josh Barfield, Steve Stone, and Gene Watson feel the heat."

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"White Sox broadcaster Steve Stone signs multiyear deal"

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"Steve Stone, who broadcast the game, said in this Tribune oral history of the game that it was an error: It was an error."

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"Even Jason Benetti and Steve Stone, who occasionally go off on tangents, don’t do it as much — or with as much irrelevance — as I hear it on Marquee."

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" Speaking to Jason Benetti and Steve Stone on CSN Chicago Thursday night (via Fox Sports' Jon Morosi), Manfred explained that he would "love to see" MLB expand once the league's new labor deal is finalized and stadium situations in Tampa Bay and Oakland are resolved."

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""If you create Frankenstein, you can't be real surprised if he eats the village," former Cubs broadcaster Steve Stone famously said at the time."

• Today in White Sox History: June 15
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• SoxFest Live 2025 delivers a dinger ... along with a few swings and misses

The 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...2025
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• In memoriam: Remembering the Cubs we lost in 2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 19

In better days, White Sox owner Grace Comiskey and children Dorothy and Chuck (left- and right-center) confer with club manager Ted Lyons. | Chicago Tribune Comiskey family squabbling breaks out into the open 1914 Charles Comiskey paid to keep a star opposing pitcher in the American League? Indeed, the White Sox owner, in fear of Walter Johnson jumping from the AL’s Washington Senators to ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 29

Hate to say we told you so, Oscar Gamble, but your power dried up in San Diego. Another key Hit Man bolts for greener pastures 1963 He had a spectacular 1963 season, and because of it White Sox star southpaw Gary Peters was named the American League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Peters went 19-8 with a 2.33 ERA (AL-best among starting pitchers), and ha...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 24
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• Today in White Sox History: November 12
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• Today in White Sox History: November 9

Jason Benetti and Steve Stone brought some necessary cheer to White Sox broadcasts. However, the team drove Benetti to take the Tigers job on this day, one year ago. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images A brilliant announcer, driven out of town 2005 After a season that saw the White Sox win their first World Series title since 1917, the Baseball Writers Association of America named Ozz...2024
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• The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 83-60)

Well, I knew it would happen at some point in this giant countdown. As hard as I tried to stay fast to the ranking chart that I created at the start of this countdown and then carefully mark off the cards that I covered, I still ran off the tracks a couple of times. My corrections since the last countdown episode explain the wacky numbering in each of the updated countdown titles f...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: August 29

Perhaps it was actor Jimmy Stewart (in his role for The Monty Stratton Story) and not Stratton himself on the mound for a 12-run, first inning drubbing on this day, 87 years ago. | Hulton Archive/Getty Images The A’s parade around the bases in the first inning 1915 White Sox pitcher Jim Scott fired a 5-0 shutout over the Philadelphia A’s ... and he did it in only 68 minutes! It’s the faste...2024
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• The Yankees get revenge, but the White Sox refuse to lie down

Juan Soto drove in every single run for the Yankees. The rest of them should just quit. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images The New York Juan Sotos singlehandedly give it back to the South Siders White Sox fans, it’s time for a State of the Union. The fans have spoken after the first four games of the Grady Sizemore era. Listening to Steve Stone on 670 this morning and I now have zero doubts tha...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: July 31
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• Royals 3, White Sox 0: It was boring, until it wasn’t

Oops. | Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Another abysmal offensive day does not go the South Siders’ way If you couldn’t gather in the gamethread, the energy that I have for this team is in the basement. Which is why I spent the first six innings of today’s game both watching the game and playing a video game with a friend. I looked up after an hour and fifteen minutes to realize that six innings ...2024
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• John Schriffen is the new play-by-play announcer for the Chicago White Sox

John Schriffen (right), has experience in multiple sports including baseball, basketball, and football. | David Becker/NBAE via Getty Images Former Dartmouth pitcher brings a varied broadcasting background to the booth On Thursday, the Chicago White Sox announced John Schriffen as their new play-by-play announcer. Schriffen agreed to a multiyear contract, and will broadcast games alongsi...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: December 19
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• The Yankees get revenge, but the White Sox refuse to lie down
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• Today in White Sox History: July 31
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• Today in 1984 Cubs history: The Sandberg Game

MLB Photos via Getty Images It was the day that Ryne Sandberg became an icon, and the entire trajectory of the Cubs franchise changed. The Cubs began June 23, 1984 in third place in the NL East, 1½ games behind the first-place Mets. Even this position was a bit surprising. The Cubs had losing records in 1982 and 1983, their first two years under Tribune Co. ownership, and had a poor Spring...2024
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• Tigers 2, White Sox 1: That’s So White Sox

Paul DeJong — tonight’s Enemy of the People. | Getty Images I can’t believe I spent my Friday night watching this game Steve Stone called it on the pregame broadcast. Two great pitchers locked in a low-scoring pitchers’ duel: Is this a late birthday gift for me? Next question: How will the White Sox ruin it? In true White Sox fashion, they begin by stranding runners on the corners. Comma...2024
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• Giving White Sox announcers short Schriff(en)

OK, possibly not the most flattering Harry Caray photo ever taken. Hey, his is a rough gig, folks Drat that Paul Sullivan, anyway. The Tribune columnist used the occasion of some celebration of Harry Caray by That Other Team in Town to comment on fledgling White Sox announcer John Schriffen and how a little more Caray-like honesty might be in order. That’s just fine, and it was a good pie...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: Celebrating the day Kerry Wood struck out 20 Astros
DANIEL LIPPITT/AFP/Getty Images It happened 25 years ago today. It’s hard to believe a quarter-century has gone by since Kerry Wood’s incredible 20-strikeout game at Wrigley Field against the Astros. But here we are, and so today I’m re-posting the article I wrote five years ago on this memorable game’s 20th anniversary. It happened 25 years ago today, Wednesday, May 6, 1998. It really wa...2023
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• Cubs 4, Athletics 0: More solid pitching and timely hitting
John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs won their third game in a row. OAKLAND — The Cubs ran into a surprisingly tough A’s pitching staff Tuesday night and the teams matched zeroes for seven innings. Then the Cubs put together several timely hits in a row and took advantage of an Oakland error and won their second straight from the A’s 4-0, as four Cubs pitchers combined to throw a two-hit s...2023
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• Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
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• A few more thoughts about Marquee Sports Network’s Cubs game broadcasts
Marquee Sports Network The channel’s live game presentation still leaves much to be desired. Back in June, I wrote this article with some thoughts I had about Marquee Sports Network’s Cubs game broadcasts. It wasn’t pretty. I had hoped things might change, but little did. The game broadcasts are still borderline unwatchable. Before I continue, I want to tell you that in the 17 years Bleed ...2022
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 126

Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs bounce back after a Tigers grand slam for a 6-4 win. I do a lot of different things in this space. It all depends on the vibe I get from the game and often things on social media. For better or for worse, I assume that social media gives some cross-section of where the collective consciousness of Cubs nation and by extent al...2023
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• White Sox 10, Rockies 5: Seven run surge leads to win

Lenyn 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...2023
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• An Open Letter to Jason Benetti

Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images South Side Sox is hurting a little more today The White Sox released a statement Thursday morning that felt like a TKO of the already weakened White Sox fan base. As a staff, and fans of the team, we’ve all been flinching when we see any statement from the team, or when a Slack notification comes in. Losing the likes of Liam Hendriks and Tim Anderson...2023
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• White Sox broadcaster Steve Stone signs multiyear deal
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• Bird App Recap: The accountability game
Stone Pony not wanting to be on Lance’s bad side. Eleven runs, one run ... they all count as another contest that ends up in the right-hand column I can’t decide which went worse: the 2023 White Sox season so far, or the commissioning of this Juan Soto statue. Things are going worse out there for him than I realized pic.twitter.com/7ccuNipGZx— Liam Fennessy ☕️ (@LiamFennessy_) April 28,...2023
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• Grading the White Sox: Dylan Cease
Well done, Dylan, well done. | David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Cy Cease goes from fantasy to reality At midseason, the SSS staff graded the 46-46 White Sox, from head of the class Dylan Cease all the way down to Dallas Keuchel. We invented a WARsss metric that could very well be just a cute way to trot out our special site grades — but really for all you know could be the product of years of...2022
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• Chicago White Sox announce 2025 spring training schedule

Hold your hats! Fans can watch seven games for FREE on CHSN! The Chicago White Sox, in collaboration with Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) and ESPN Chicago (AM-1000), have released their schedule for the 2025 spring training broadcasts, bringing baseball directly to fans for FREE! Uncle Jerry ponied up to give you a taste of the new season just before he makes you pay for it. Viewers can watch on CH...2025
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• Lost Voices: Steve Stone’s 25-win season for the Orioles

(One in a series of articles highlighting former Orioles whom I interviewed for my oral history a quarter-century ago, but only on the phone, depriving me of a recording that I could play now as part of the Bird Tapes.) When 31-year-old journeyman pitcher Steve Stone arrived at the Orioles’ spring training camp in February […]...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 11
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• Today in White Sox History: November 12
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• Gamethread: Rays at White Sox

Celebrations from last night’s walk-off winner that had fans buzzing into today’s game. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Last night the White Sox had fun. Can they... sweep the Rays today? Last night we saw some much needed excitement from this team, and with the stands full the crowd got to enjoy it. It was the teams first win of the series, and their first time winning back-to-back games th...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: March 25

Two outs from Neal Cotts was all the White Sox bullpen was allowed in the 2005 ALCS. | G. N. Lowrance/Getty Images Happy birthday to a 2005 hero 1951 White Sox legend Eddie Collins died at age 63, in Boston. Unquestionably the best second baseman in White Sox history (67.0 WAR), Collins also managed the team for two full seasons in the aftermath of the Black Sox scandal. Despite a gutted...2024
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• Cubs 8, White Sox 1: Not Great!

Some things never change. | @kindableu Nothing really matters, anyway Today is the day, friends. We’ve got baseball back after a long yet mildly-warm winter. There are new guys on the field competing for that coveted spot in the big leagues, and a new face in the booth with Steve Stone. I’ve enjoyed listening to John Schriffen, but I know fans miss Jason Benetti. Getting this out of t...2024
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• Soxivus Week 2 companion: The Airing of Grievances

Jonathan 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...2023
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