Chris Sale‘s flirtation with the sartorial industry has without a doubt been one of the strangest subplots in this White Sox season, a sentence that should not have been possible four months after learning that a 14-year-old boy was a clubhouse leader. But the fact that the Drake LaRoche saga was even capable of occurring […]
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South Side Morning 5: Do the White Sox care about winning?
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] […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chris Sale’s bizarre Cy Young quest is renewed
A funny thing happened to Chris Sale while the American League seas were parting for him and the old lions who once stood in his path to the Cy Young award fell to the wayside: he stopped pitching well. Only 4 of Chris Sale’s last 9 were quality starts. The 14-game winner is 5-3, 5.56 […]
Mariners 4, White Sox 3: Wasting Chris Sale
A Chris Sale beauty was chucked into the trash can tonight. You can scrounge in the dumpster if you like, but it you’re unlikely to find it. It’s gone. It’s lost. Scoring multiple runs may greatly increase your chances of winning baseball games, but turns out the winning formula is still to score more runs than […]
When Reality Won’t Cooperate With Your Plans
The 2016 White Sox have an incomplete roster. They left winter with an incomplete roster, with Austin Jackson as their big free agent acquisition. With more than half the season in the books, almost all of the problems they have now were foreseeable during the offseason. Unfortunately, they punted solving them, and as is often the case […]
Will Chris Sale Finally Snap the White Sox’s Major Award Drought?
Before Jose Abreu beat out Matt Shoemaker and Dellin Betances for the 2014 American League Rookie of the Year Award, no White Sox player had won an award worth noting since Frank Thomas took home MVP in 1994. Twenty years of nothing. Every team in the AL other than Tampa, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Cleveland has […]
All-Star Game provides Quintana with long overdue recognition
Jose Quintana is finally going to an All-Star Game. Along with most of you reading this, I think he should’ve been chosen as one of the initial crop of five starters, but a nice thing about the ballooning of All-Star rosters is that it has decreased the likelihood that guys who really deserve to make […]
Who are these guys?
For the second-straight year, the White Sox look like the victim of the second Wild Card spot. Only one more team in the American League has been making the playoffs every year since 2012, but the threshold for where teams can appear within striking distance of the last slot has been lowered an order of […]