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 […]
Tag: Robin Ventura
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 […]
The White Sox are in baseball purgatory
The second half of the season is officially here. The All-Star break isn’t for another week, but Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Astros was the 82nd game of the White Sox season, and things are, well, they’re perfectly average. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. At 42-40, the White Sox remain in the […]
Four irksome White Sox talking points
1. What are we learning from intense scrutiny of Tim Anderson‘s walk rate at this point? Anderson is an aggressive hitter who will never walk a lot, and will likely not flash enough power early on to force caution, and his athleticism and bat speed has pushed him at least a level beyond where he would be […]
South Side Morning 5: Anybody can get it
1. For a franchise in a ‘prove it’ season like the White Sox are in, pressure is felt across the organization. But as manager, Robin Ventura is sitting in the position to feel it first and strongest. In terms of on the field action, accountability runs up the chain to him, but in terms of […]
Maybe Rick Renteria Can Be Batman?
Because using Robin [Ventura] as the manager has been a complete failure. Monday night’s game against the Tigers was a breaking point for me, and hopefully for the White Sox organization, because it is now blatantly clear (and it can be argued that it was already) that Ventura is not a competent tactical manager at […]
Learning More About The White Sox Through Their Bizarre Charity Baskets
As an organization, the White Sox have a lot of flaws, but no one can say that they aren’t at least incredibly charitable. And the best fundraising charity event they have each year is when the players’ significant others get together and make up the Favorite Things Baskets. I love this event. In the past […]
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 […]
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 […]