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Arbitration filings, and the White Sox lineup is still the same

There’s a difference between the types of stories that demand the attention, care, and insight of a beat writer, and the types of stories that are more matter of fact, or have all the necessary info…Read More

The White Sox in the World Baseball Classic

We picked at it a bit by discussing the benefits of withholding Chris Sale from the World Baseball Classic, but the Earth is a vast forest with many fruit, and many rosters to fill, from countries with…Read More

Lazy Sunday afternoon White Sox notes

The WBC Chris Sale is not pitching in the World Baseball Classic, according to everyone’s favorite Midwestern-centric storybreaker, Jon Morosi. Chris Sale won’t pitch for Team USA at WBC…Read More

White Sox Spring Training invitees preview

Nothing signals that the Spring is drawing near like the phrase “Pitchers and catchers report”. Thus, nothing signals that we are drawing near to the point of Spring drawing near like the phrase…Read More

The Hall of Fame and engaging history

Wednesday’s announcement that no players would receive the honor of induction into the Hall of Fame was easy to see coming. Still, the bitter feeling of emptiness, the sense that the squabbling between…Read More

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What do YOU want Paul Konerko to do after 2013?…and other White Sox notes

When a headline about Konerko possibly retiring at the end of 2013 crawled across my timeline, I expected…Read More

All the bad hitters are getting worked on

Between Tyler Flowers, Dayan Viciedo, Alexei Ramirez, and Gordon Beckham, the White Sox have a lot…Read More

The White Sox bullpen as is…needs help

Closer – Addison Reed: Needs to find his slider again. It was great! It was shiny and magnificent.…Read More

Alex Rios alternating year theory

There’s been plenty of reference made toward Alex Rios’ recent practice of alternating back-and-forth…Read More

Cleveland makes up a little ground in TV revenue gap

Sticking out like a sore thumb in the list of MLB teams TV distributors, against a backdrop of Comcast…Read More

Lefty balance, and offense in general, has a lot to do with Dayan Viciedo

In speaking to reporters recently, Rick Hahn said he was perfectly okay with his current lineup’s…Read More

All cried out over A.J.

The day after the day after Christmas Eve was the day to start giving official statements on the departure…Read More

A sort of A.J. Pierzynski rememberance

White Sox fans loved A.J. Pierzynski. They loved him. They loved him with a ferocity that sought to…Read More

Grappling with A.J. Pierzynski’s departure

For a moment there, and in one specific sense, the departure of AJ Pierzynski from the White Sox–from…Read More

Trevor Bauer enters the AL Central, Kevin Youkilis departs

It had been, and might still continue to be for a while, a fine time to feign sympathy for the plight…Read More

Avoiding desperate measures with Keppinger and Sanchez

A word to describe the White Sox activity of the past two days might be… Well, I looked up the…Read More

White Sox Winter Meetings Recap Day 2:……….

If the end result of this day-to-day blog coverage of the Winter Meetings is that I will chronicle the…Read More

White Sox Winter Meetings Recap Day 1: So this is why the Sox are wary of these things

There’s nothing deathly wrong with Angel Pagan getting four years and $40 million from the Giants…Read More

White Sox Winter Meetings of Yesteryear

All of White Sox-dom is ready for the airy, sustenance-free off-season to suddenly get shattered to pieces…Read More

Words become reality

The other day, I was just minding my own business–by that I mean, I was chuckling to myself about…Read More