The Phillies are not a good baseball team. They’re in the middle of a genuine rebuild, their hot start to the season was mostly helium, they have a moribund offense and no parts of their promising young pitching were on display Tuesday night with Jake Thompson on the hill. A Sox blowout shouldn’t have been […]
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White Sox need to face facts about chronic offense shortcomings
I’m not sure what I expected. Kenny Williams speaking to assembled media on a golf course is not exactly the forum for a public bloodletting on the state and fate of the White Sox, or even the ideal place for an adjustment on their general policy to err on the side of opaqueness. But in […]
South Side Morning 5: The joy of Sale and Quintana
With the Sox season having gone from one of their best starts in memory to dead by July, and with nearly all of their rosterable rookies maimed beyond reason, the 2016 season has lost a lot of the traditional reasons to watch it. That Chris Sale and Jose Quintana are saddled with this group is […]
White Sox 4, Athletics 2: A rare, easy day for Quintana
Baseball often gets–Praised? Bemoaned? Slandered?–for its lack of predictability, but back-to-back games of Chris Sale and Jose Quintana facing fill-in rotation options for the A’s have gone about as predictably as could have been hoped. 1. Quintana himself was far from dominant, not that immolating his opponents is often his path to success. He needed […]
White Sox 6, Athletics 2: This was how things were supposed to be
Having the 53-70 A’s roll in town is, typically, a good way for everything for operate like it was always supposed. Time was, just a Chris Sale start was enough to make the Sox look like a killer outlet, but holding back his best stuff as he sticks to a conservation plan that begun running […]
Athletics 9, White Sox 0: Uncompetitive
A lot of pitchers are bad, and a lot are reviled by their fans to the point where they feel there’s no chance for victory on nights they start, but James Shields has been the genuine article, having allowed six or more earned runs in half of his 14 starts with Chicago. However Friday, his […]
Omar Narvaez: Symbol of Hope?
While it has been a rough season in many respects, one particularly disappointing aspect of 2016 has been–through misfortune and persistent organizational weakness–the lack of young players to watch with hopeful optimism. After all, once it’s clear a team’s immediate playoff fortunes have been dashed, the most obvious pleasure in continuing to watch derives from […]
Goodbye Is For The Best, Fulmer
As the calendar has rapidly approached the second half of August with September on the horizon, baseball has nearly reached the official checkpoint of every MLB season when teams make their “September callups”. The feeling is in the air, with folks already seeing Braves top prospect Dansby Swanson making his major league debut on Wednesday, and next White […]
White Sox 10, Indians 7: Eaton’s slam caps shocking five-run ninth
Sometimes it’s hard to remember that for all their frustrating flaws, the Sox aren’t much worse than an average team, and get to have fun nights too. This was a fun night! With Anthony Ranaudo filling in for a spot start against verified stud Carlos Carrasco, facing an Indians team that had defeated the Sox […]
What would a divided White Sox front office look like?
Tuesday afternoon David Kaplan unleashed a bombshell on his ESPN 1000 AM radio show that he did present like he intended it to be a bombshell: that a scout had told them there was discord between Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn about whether to execute a total teardown/rebuild. Which side each were reported to fall […]