1. Sometimes, stripping every message to their core principles and leaving out revealing details provides misconceptions. For example, Chris Sale‘s inexcusable and bizarre outburst is being couched by his agent as a dispute over whether the White Sox “cared about winning”. Jayson Stark: “‘The only thing that matters to Chris Sale is winning,’ [Sale’s agent] […]
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White Sox 5, Tigers 4: Quintana and Eaton lead Sox despite unhinged ninth inning
The White Sox have…had a weekend. Sunday saw them attempt to return to normalcy by carving out a respectable result in a four-game series with the Tigers, and have someone actually making their scheduled turn in the rotation for once, but still featured a bullpen that had covered 14.2 innings in the last two games. […]
White Sox 4, Tigers 3: Spare Sox carry rain-addled affair
Friday night, the Sox surprisingly made a game out of starting Jacob Turner against the frontrunner for the AL Rookie of the Year. Saturday night they needed to follow it up by pivoting from Chris Sale getting scratched for what can only be summed up as a bout of insanity, to a Matt Albers-led bullpen […]
Chris Sale embarrasses himself
No one would blame Chris Sale for being a bit on edge these days. He’s the source of near-constant rumors concerning the possibility that he may be traded from the only professional organization he has ever known. That has come along with a larger concession that the White Sox are selling and could potentially enter […]
Tigers 7, White Sox 5: Sox make a game out of ridiculous mismatch
Between Chris Sale trade rumors, a cadre of injuries that included Brett Lawrie, and a Jacob Turner-Michael Fulmer pitching matchup, Friday night took on a very post-contention feel. It offered a glimpse of how the Sox will be playing out the string the rest of 2016: more entertaining than expected but still kind of a […]
Revisiting the trades of Rick Hahn
Since being promoted to general manager in October of 2012, Rick Hahn has 20 trades to his credit. During his four years on the job, Hahn has been considered a savvy trader, someone who has been able to craft out good deals despite being limited by the budget constraints of his owner. But just how […]
Mired in mediocrity
Thursday afternoon, Rick Hahn got through with the business of drumming out any vestige of hope for the 2016 season early. Alex Avila‘ hamstring is re-aggravated and he’s a month away, leaving the Sox with the worst half of their failed catching platoon, the Austin Jackson knee injury that seemed worthy of a move in response […]
Tigers 2, White Sox 1: They are still playing the games
The White Sox spent the day in the headlines as analysts and fans across the country wondered if their situation was hopeless enough to merit selling off all their valuables in hopes of a viable future. But by nightfall, the vestiges of their once sincere pursuit of the playoffs took centerstage once again, as James […]
The White Sox are done
Maybe this declarative headline is just for posterity, since the dimming playoff picture for the Sox has been increasingly apparent for weeks now, and is simply impossible to ignore now after a dismal 1-5 west coast road trip to start the second half, which came on the heels of home series loss to the tanking […]
Mariners 6, White Sox 5: Sox terrorized by Leonys Martin, own bullpen
The Seattle Mariners might be selling. They’re hanging around .500 aimlessly, are 5.5 games back from the Wild Card with four teams in front of them and even farther out of the AL West, and they just swung a trade to send reliever Mike Montgomery to the Cubs for Dan Vogelbach, with others involved. And yet […]