James Fegan
I've been writing about the White Sox since March of 2010. After two and a half years of running White Sox Observer, and six months of writing a post here once-a-week, I've signed on to be co-editor of Southside Showdown. When that's not completely occupying me, I write funny off-topic stories at The Third City, and occasionally do my grad school homework.
Every day is a good day to prove yourself in the major leagues, but Monday night was a particularly fine time for Dylan Axelrod to show himself capable of side-stepping through a top-flight American League…Read More
They were only a laughable blimp crash of disappointment but for a year, yet the Boston Red Sox have snuck up on everyone by becoming a dominant force in the AL East again. Oh how people forget.
Before…Read More
Can enough be said about the weird little stretch of schedule the White Sox are in? Probably. They’re a fourth place team that entered the season with limited expectations. But to the niche audience…Read More
Jake Peavy came into Sunday’s start in Los Angeles walking under 1.5 batters per nine innings and with a 2.96 ERA. However, that walk rate was far, and suspiciously superior to his career mark of…Read More
Angels starter Jason Vargas is Bruce Chen without the mystique.
A soft-tossing lefty whose pitches seem to waft over the plate lazily from his three-quarters delivery, who boasts neither tricky stuff…Read More
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Dayan Viciedo walking just isn’t quite the red alert it used to be, but it should be. With the…Read More
The White Sox won two games in a row in Minnesota and racked up 13 combined runs while facing starting…Read More
Call it 2011 trauma-induced cynicism, but Adam Dunn home runs don’t move me. I cheer and appreciate…Read More
With Paul Konerko only now coming back from a brief sabbatical, a sad struggling offense has had to…Read More
Robin Ventura has enough problems to deal without his quotes being sifted through as if they had some…Read More
Coming into this season, there were plenty of doubts expressed about the White Sox offense. As much as…Read More
It’s not much fun to watch Robin Ventura helplessly resigned to his seat in the dugout while his…Read More
That headline would have been a happier result and probably would have reflected better on the state…Read More
This was an inexcusably terrible weekend for recaps on the site.* Trips to the game, site outages, Mother’s…Read More
34 games into the season and still last in the American League in runs per game despite playing in a…Read More
At the moment, Dylan Axelrod is enjoying the longest stretch of sustained success in his career. Uncoincidentally,…Read More
An article of such a title could simply be referring to the Twitter drumbeat for Hector Santiago’s…Read More
Looking back on the schedule, it’s not unprecedented for the White Sox to score five runs in a…Read More
Chicken or the egg? Single sniper or extra guy on the grassy knoll? Was Matt Harvey super dominant or…Read More