A spare thought after watching the sport’s greatest pitcher dig impossibly deep for new reserves of his greatness… Given the expectations laid forth when he transitioned to starting, Chris Sale‘s health has been a revelation. His mechanics have been revealed to be deceptively smooth despite his atypical build, and he’s compiled 1,015 innings with a 3.04 […]
Author: James Fegan
Conor Gillaspie used to do this stuff over here
There was nothing but pure amusement to the first episode of Conor Gillaspie: Playoff Hero. Here was this unfailingly reserved and quiet soul, suddenly forced into the absurdity of a live SportsCenter interview, because of the seemingly impossible alignment of his decent ability for hitting right-handers, with his happening upon an organization decent enough to place […]
Junior Guerra: One that got away
While we’re reviewing players from the 2016 White Sox, and more or less just killing time and wasting our lives, why not focus on something that didn’t quite happen on the South Side in 2016? Since the White Sox went 78-84, it would be hard for something short of a bus crash, a pestilence, everyone […]
Friedrich Nietzsche weighs in on the White Sox managerial transition
In times of confusion, unrest, or just turnover, BP South Side turns to Röcken native, Friedrich Nietzsche for insight and counsel. Monday’s transition from Robin Ventura to Rick Renteria, with Rick Hahn restating his odd, but assured stance that ‘we’ll know what the Sox are doing when they start doing it’ certainly calls for Nietzsche’s insight. […]
Keep the South Side weird
The White Sox replaced a manager this weekend who oversaw four-straight losing seasons, was not well-regarded tactically, and had his hand on the wheel as multiple humiliating clubhouse fracases reached the public in this season alone. They replaced him with a well-respected figure in the baseball world, the rare option who possesses previous managerial experience […]
White Sox 1, Rays 0: One last Miguel Gonzalez gem for the road
Buried in the melancholy and disappointment of the 2016 White Sox season has been a small, quiet story of a journeyman pitcher who stared down a path that would lead to more waiver wires, non-guaranteed deals and the likely end of his career, and turned it around. Miguel Gonzalez, the former Mexican League hurler who […]
A possible Sale farewell
Writing topics don’t come easily these days, so it would behoove me to not ignore the obvious one offered by the Daily Herald’s Scot Gregor Tuesday night. Sale is done after allowing 3 runs in 7 innings. Could be last start of season, possibly last start ever for #WhiteSox — Scot Gregor (@scotgregor) September 28, […]
Avisail Garcia has had a decent second half–what does this mean?
Who is less trustworthy to make a fair and honest and realistic assessment of Avisail Garcia‘s progress at this point? The Chicago White Sox or…us? Us being the viewing public that has seen Garcia stumble and struggle and hint at huge potential, but never quite reach it for parts of four seasons, and watched him […]
White Sox 3, Indians 0: Rodon pushes back Cleveland’s clinch party
With the Tigers getting poleaxed by Royals on their own field at the time of this writing, the Indians just needed a victory against the deeply scuffling White Sox to be celebrating an AL Central title in their clubhouse Sunday afternoon. Which…wouldn’t be the end of the world. It’s not like the White Sox have skin […]
Indians 10, White Sox 4: Making the season worth ending
Thanks to some early offensive fireworks, it wasn’t immediately obvious to newcomers which team was fighting for the best record in the American League Friday night in Cleveland, and which was straining for a reason to keep going, but these things have a certain, brutal way of self-correcting. Despite staking themselves to a pair of […]