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 […]
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White Sox 7, Royals 2: Carlos Rodon Continues to be Good
The White Sox came into Friday’s game with a 67-72 record and completely out of the playoff picture. The Royals were 72-67 and barely holding onto hope of making the playoffs to defend their World Series Championship. As the season winds down, the 3.5 games and three teams that separate the Royals from the playoffs […]
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 […]
The Evergreen White Sox Problem
Upon drafting the headline, I hesitated, because it could describe a number of things with this organization. But in this instance, I am speaking specifically about the White Sox’ perpetual habit of gushing blood at several spots on the lineup and being clueless as to how to fix it. It’s been going on so long that […]
There is reason to hold out hope on Robertson
On July 21, White Sox GM Rick Hahn came just short of declaring the 2016 White Sox season dead in the water, prompting a flurry of discussions about an impending rebuild. Would it happen at the quickly approaching trade deadline? Would the Sox wait for the distant offseason? Questions loomed, theories mounted, Chris Sale left […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]