1. Carlos Rodon is mad at White Sox management. Not the sort of deep, intractable anger that hastens his departure the moment free agency strikes, but the type of annoyance at the caution being employed to yank him from the rotation for a turn that provides some assurance. The White Sox are framing things such that the […]
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Giving Latos Another Whirl – Game Preview & Lineups 6/7
A series of sighs and sentences beginning with player names but trailing off into dissatisfied mumbles would be, though appropriate, uninformative pre-game reading. After a terrible stretch of baseball the White Sox find themselves not buried, but just two games out of the division lead. This should be reason for optimism. The long season has ebbs and […]
White Sox season can still be saved
On the morning of May 10th, the White Sox sat at 23-10, first place in the AL Central by six games with the second-best record in baseball. They had were coming off an 8-4 victory in Texas that was capped by a go-ahead Todd Frazier grand slam in the top of the 12th. Things were looking […]
Around The AL Central: Are The Tables Turning?
As we draw nearer by the day to the “There are only 100 games left!” point of the baseball season, things in the AL Central are beginning to fluctuate, and the fun part of the race is just starting to take place. This weekend saw a few significant division rival match ups, and things were flipped […]
Friedrich Nietzsche weighs in on the 2016 White Sox
With the White Sox season in a baffling tailspin, BP South Side turns to the wisdom of famed German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Previously we called upon the Röcken native to provide ideal answers to post-game questions, now we call upon him to shed some light on the Pale Hose’s current troubles. Now that the White […]
Tigers 5, White Sox 2: This Is Fine
Given how comprehensively the White Sox have failed for a month straight now, it comes as no surprise that they have figured out a different style of impotently collapsing for each division rival. After they helped vault Kansas City into first with three straight bullpen meltdowns of biblical proportions, they decided this three-game set against […]
White Sox acquire a suddenly affordable James Shields
The dust has settled, and we have our official trade: James Shields for Erik Johnson and Fernando Tatis Jr. The White Sox owe Shields $5 million for the rest of 2016. If he does not opt out after 2016, which a good finish could easily motivate the 34-year-old to do, he will be owed $10 […]
Tigers 7, White Sox 4: They lost a Sale-Pelfrey matchup
As the White Sox front office moved to bolster their playoff chances by acquiring James Shields from the Padres, their on field staff slightly hurt those chances by falling to the Tigers 7-4 Saturday. Despite what seemed like an obvious mismatch on paper, Mike Pelfrey stymied the White Sox bats and Chris Sale was slightly off […]
White Sox, Padres Reportedly Agree On James Shields Deal
The White Sox and Padres have agreed in principle to a deal that will send James Shields to the South Side of Chicago, according to FanRag’s Jon Heyman. While details are not yet clear, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Dennis Lin reported that the Padres are interested in Fernando Tatis, Jr., a White Sox signee from […]
Tigers 10, White Sox 3: Wages of Wednesday’s victory too much to overcome
Matchups and lineups and whatnot get focused on a lot by us blogging types, since what other updates are there to focus on on a day-to-day basis? But rarely does every single way a team is hamstrung on a particular day play a prominent role in a game. 1. Before the game, the White Sox […]