When I made a small plea for the White Sox to consider being more aggressive in using Chance the Rapper as part of their marketing effort, it was in the spirit of using the “privilege of the floor” portion of a City Council meeting to say my piece, after all of the real proposals and bills had […]
Tag: Robin Ventura
It Begins – Game Preview & Lineups 4/4
It’s baseball that counts. You’ve waited over 5 months for this, and it’ll be 6 more before you have to go over a day without it, unless you count the All Star Break which in this particular game preview I have decided not to do. The schedule makers may have dealt the Sox a poor […]
Jerry Sands is the 25th man
Just before their exhibition game Friday night in San Diego, the White Sox made an announcement: Jerry Sands has more than a chance, he has a job. For Sands, 28, who has never made an Opening Day roster and has been in and out of the majors for the the last five seasons, it’s a […]
Waiting on the Jose Abreu miracle
“I think about this photo a lot, the travels and trials of Jose Abreu and other Cuban players to come here.” -Mauricio Rubio I have been thinking about this tweet, which is about thinking about this photo a lot, a lot on my own. Jose Abreu‘s career trajectory is…implausible. His first presence in stateside baseball […]
LaRoche snafu puts White Sox in unkind national spotlight
The White Sox have comfortably operated with unchecked weirdness outside the national spotlight for some time now, in a place where the franchise player tearing into team president Kenny Williams is variations on a theme, not breaking news.
White Sox bullpen could have strength in numbers
While most of the focus during the 2015-16 offseason was on where all the premier free agent outfielders would land, one of the other trends that continued during the offseason was teams loading up their bullpen. The highlight, of course, was the Yankees adding Aroldis Chapman to a bullpen that already featured Dellin Betances and […]
South Side Morning 5: Not all of these items are about Adam LaRoche
Those who might wish this Adam LaRoche story–its bizarre controversy, its inability to fit into any defined box for rational debate, and its potential to rip focus away from a promising season–would just go away, are not going to have a very good St. Patrick’s Day.
South Side Morning 5: The search for swag
1. Rick Hahn sat down with Brett Ballantini for a Q&A about the White Sox offseason for MLB Trade Rumors, and reaffirmed a lot of the dominant themes of the offseason. He insisted that the Sox were “in” on major free agent targets but alluded to “not economic-based” reasons why they did not land in […]