Chris Sale was not at his absolute, truly, very best. Behind his huge strikeout total, his fastball command wavered throughout, his home run problems returned, and aaaaaaalllllll of this is pointless nitpicking since the Sox offense could do nothing at all against Ian Kennedy and the Royals. 1. Absolutely nothing, complete bupkus. Sox bats managed […]
Author: James Fegan
Royals 6, White Sox 5: Shields got a quality start
In a lot of traditional respects, the White Sox lost a heartbreaker Saturday night. After a thrilling Carlos Rodon start Friday, and Chris Sale set for the finale, they were tantalizingly close to an improbable opportunity to sweep the defending champion Royals, right on the heels of their second series win over a non-Twins AL […]
Let’s appreciate Melky Cabrera
BP South Side seems to have somehow developed some reputation for negativity. A shame! And baffling, given the sunny subject matter. To try to build back our reputation, let’s focus on a good story (all my stories are good, making this easy) about something going right this season. A White Sox problem that has been […]
White Sox 7, Tigers 4: Eighth-inning comeback gives Sox rare AL Central series win
After the White Sox improbably rallied for a four-run eighth to take the rubber match of what was a crucial three-game set for Detroit, Good Twitter User Neal Hamer posed the following interrogatory @JRFegan is this the first series the Sox have won against KC, Detroit or Cleveland this year? — Neal Hamer (@nealhamer) September […]
There will be no fun had here
Rick Hahn announced Tuesday that the White Sox are not calling Zack Burdi nor Carson Fulmer up to the majors for September. From one, very real angle, this is a monumental drag. Much of the Sox bullpen and the back of the starting rotation are only tolerable with the aid of extreme feelings of professional […]
White Sox 2, Tigers 0: Miguel Gonzalez is what the game’s been missing
To be honest, the Sox turning two out of every five games into a run-soaked, four-hour bullpen game was getting pretty tiresome, and also making it hard to remember how this was ever a team with even a puncher’s chance in the AL playoff race. Into a void the Sox had been filling with Anthony […]
Abreu’s compelling recovery
Jose Abreu is hitting .366/.413/.664 since Aug. 1. Wow, that’s real good! Given his importance to the White Sox, and the fact that just this not even five week outburst in the middle of a previously mundane season has been enough to give him easily the best batting line on the 2016 team means that […]
White Sox 13, Twins 11: Order and reason abandon the sport, and the Sox emerge victorious
The assumption when the fourth and fifth-place teams in the AL Central square off in the finale of a four-game set, and drag themselves, the paid attendants, the stadium staff and broadcast crews through a four-hour, 46-minute, 24-run war, that this is awful, low-quality baseball; a joyless slog. Let’s operate under a different assumption, that […]
Twins 11, White Sox 3: What are we doing here, guys?
The White Sox are contractually committed to James Shields through 2018, he is unmovable in his current state, and they have plenty of reasons for being invested in his recovery, whatever potential for it there may still be. But as each disaster piles on top of each other, they will be pressed to answer if […]
South Side Morning 5: Ain’t that just the way
It’s been too long. 1. Jon Heyman’s report on the White Sox being unlikely and unwilling to kickstart a rebuild or reloading of their farm system by trading Chris Sale or Jose Quintana, has three very typical elements of any update on Sox operations. –A refusal to do something radical or franchise re-shaping. –Assurance that […]