Wins and losses don’t mean much this year but trolling the Twins is always worthwhile — Nicky Beeps (@Nick_BPSS) May 4, 2018 1. We often get so caught up in who’s doing what and when and where in regards to the White Sox build toward contention that we don’t stop to appreciate a truly enjoyable game. […]
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The Good Lucas Giolito
Three earned runs in 6 1/3 innings of work is, on the surface, nothing to get overly excited about. But Lucas Giolito on Wednesday looked every bit the part of the pitcher the White Sox remain high on for the majority of his outing in a 3-2 loss to the Cardinals, putting together easily his […]
The Kansas City Royals Need to Shut Up
No one likes to lose. It’s why little kids flip Monopoly boards and unscrupulous adults move game pieces around when people leave the room. The entire point of competing is winning and when your job is competing at the highest level possible in your field, you might start taking umbrage at minor and imaginary slights. […]
South Side Morning 5: (Mostly) Beating the Royals
Five of the White Sox eight wins this season have come against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, a fact that says more about their ineptitude against non-Royals teams than about the team’s performance as a whole. Still, even after dropping the last two of the weekend’s five-game series against the 7-20 Royals, a solid stretch […]
South Side Morning 5: Lots of Positives!
As bad as the White Sox will likely be this season, what’s taken place over the last seven games wasn’t bound to continue in that manner. Coming off a weekend where they were outscored 27-2 in a three-game sweep at the hands of the Astros, the White Sox bats broke out for a 10-4 victory over the […]
South Side Morning 5: Hoping For The Best
1. The most significant news of the weekend, as you’ve undoubtedly read, was the White Sox announcing that reliever Danny Farquhar suffered a brain hemorrhage brought on by a ruptured aneurysm during Friday’s game against the Astros. He is in stable but critical condition at Rush University Medical Center. There’s not much to say about […]
Tyler Saladino Sent Out; Trayce Thompson Is Back
Tyler Saladino was something of an anomaly. During a time when the White Sox farm system was a barren wasteland of low-ceiling whatever or unfulfilled potential, he actually kinda sorta made it. Saladino, who the White Sox drafted in the seventh round in 2010, never once appeared in Baseball Prospectus’ Top 10 White Sox prospects […]
South Side Morning 5: Out of Oakland & A Fun Announcement
Well, that’s over with! The White Sox just limped out of Oakland with another three losses thrown on the pile. The series was a dark parody of the bouts between the good White Sox and A’s teams of the early-to-mid-2000s. The A’s still won in either dominant or hilariously lucky fashion a whole lot, with […]
It’s Still Too Early To Decide Anything
The White Sox haven’t exactly faced a bruising schedule. They sit 4-10, with nine of those games coming against Kansas City, Detroit, and Tampa Bay, teams with strong cases for Worst In The AL. The other four games have been against Toronto and Minnesota. Solid teams, but they aren’t exactly the Astros or Cleveland either. […]
Athletics 8, White Sox 1: The good, the bad, and the ugly
There are some games that can easily be delineated using a common and some might say lazy format that’s been lent from a 52-year-old movie. Monday’s 8-1 loss to the Athletics is one of those games. The good Reynaldo Lopez flashed the type of swing-and-miss stuff that makes it easy to understand why the evaluators […]