The Cleveland Indians came into Saturday night’s game with a magic number of two, and the apparent assurance that they would get to clinch the AL Central during this series. The White Sox somehow managed to postpone that ignominious dishonor for at least another night by beating Cleveland 8-1. 1. The Sox got off to […]
Author: Mark Primiano
A.J. Pierzynski and the Inevitable, Yet Crushing March of Time
Earlier this week, it was announced that former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was retiring. This was somewhat refuted but the Braves put him on the disabled list shortly after, essentially ending his career. You don’t need to worry about roster spots in September of a tremendously lost season, so it’s pretty damn obvious that […]
Tigers 5, White Sox 3: Extra Innings, Extra Disappointment
Coming into today’s game, the White Sox were 5-11 on the season when playing the Tigers. It’s been bad. Almost comically bad, but not quite at that level. Just more tragic, which is the 2016 White Sox season in a nutshell. 1. The game started with bang. On the third pitch of the first at […]
Tigers 4, White Sox 3: Well, At Least They’re Consistent
If I told you that James Shields would only give up two runs over six innings and Tyler Saladino would drive in three, you might be foolish enough to think that would be enough for the White Sox to hold on and manage to win a game against the Tigers. But then you’d remember that it’s […]
Robin Ventura and the Danger of Treating Symptoms
Do you know what the most common disease is in American household dogs and cats? It’s periodontal disease. House pets, in general, have bad oral hygiene and fairly gross teeth and gums. When left unchecked and untreated this can result in bleeding gums, cracked teeth, and systemic illness. The cure for this is obvious: clean […]
Chris Sale and the Battle of Who Can Look Worse
Chris Sale‘s flirtation with the sartorial industry has without a doubt been one of the strangest subplots in this White Sox season, a sentence that should not have been possible four months after learning that a 14-year-old boy was a clubhouse leader. But the fact that the Drake LaRoche saga was even capable of occurring […]
Will Chris Sale Finally Snap the White Sox’s Major Award Drought?
Before Jose Abreu beat out Matt Shoemaker and Dellin Betances for the 2014 American League Rookie of the Year Award, no White Sox player had won an award worth noting since Frank Thomas took home MVP in 1994. Twenty years of nothing. Every team in the AL other than Tampa, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Cleveland has […]
It’s Well Past Time To Cut Bait With Avisail Garcia
With every passing series, the 2016 Chicago White Sox season slips further away from “new, exciting, and full of promise” and closer towards “how are we seriously looking at four consecutive years of garbage?”, which is fun in a “we’re all slowly dying so it doesn’t actually matter” kind of way. But baseball is supposed […]
White Sox Send Back Danish, Call Up Ynoa
After three less than stellar relief appearances that somehow only managed to span 1.2 innings pitched, the White Sox have decided to once more activate their revolving reliever door and sent Tyler Danish down to Charlotte. Seeing as Danish was in Birmingham a week ago, if not for a horribly depressing week in the majors, […]
Learning More About The White Sox Through Their Bizarre Charity Baskets
As an organization, the White Sox have a lot of flaws, but no one can say that they aren’t at least incredibly charitable. And the best fundraising charity event they have each year is when the players’ significant others get together and make up the Favorite Things Baskets. I love this event. In the past […]