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Texas-sized trainwreck

The White Sox actually exceeded their season scoring average on Sunday thanks to a two-out, two-run, ninth inning home run off the bat of Alejandro De Aza, who continued his unexciting but steady chug…Read More

Can’t even enjoy ourselves a Chris Sale Day anymore–Sox lose 10th out of 11

Easy pleasures have been hard to locate for the White Sox since September of last season and with the relative age of the roster and the lack of homegrown studs in the organization, Chris Sale has a particular…Read More

Sale & Danks’ shoulders initiate rotation shuffle

Before anything else, how about that Jose Quintana kid, huh? Dylan Axelrod made a good Red Sox lineup look ordinary on Monday and Quintana went a step further to make them look inept at squaring pitches…Read More

Sale continues his dominance, White Sox winning streak reaches four

  The Angels saw the ball off of Chris Sale as well as you can see it now. “And the White Sox have their longest winning streak of the year….four!”  The famous quote from Rookie of the YEar…Read More

Chris Sale casts aside White Sox troubles for a night

This was an inexcusably terrible weekend for recaps on the site.* Trips to the game, site outages, Mother’s Day all conspired against anything resembling consistent coverage, which is bad and should…Read More

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White Sox employ platoons, hopefully this does not end like ‘Platoon’ – Lineups 5/12

34 games into the season and still last in the American League in runs per game despite playing in a…Read More

White Sox show everything that’s wrong with them, then beat the Royals

Well, the White Sox have really done it. They’ve managed to have a stirring late-inning comeback…Read More

Patience for the White Sox has its limits

Chris Rongey–perennially a rock sitting stoically in the middle of whitewater rapids of radio-caller…Read More

Early flurry, Dunn home run provide support for Sale

A this point, we’re all wine snobs about Chris Sale, ruining the simple joy of a starter weathering…Read More

Chris Sale–Light of our lives–takes on Tampa Bay – Lineups – 4/25

It might have been one of those cases where the deer was only out and wandering on the road–where…Read More

Knuckleballs are hard; White Sox offense restrained by Dickey in loss

The White Sox offense, nearly to a man, had no earthly concept of how to go about squaring up R.A. Dickey’s…Read More

White Sox, Blue Jays’ aces try to get back to being aces – Lineups 4/18

Believe it or not, the White Sox could be on the verge of a series win, as well as a win streak. Losing…Read More

A White Sox Opening Day for everyone to enjoy

For at least one day through the brutality of a 162-game baseball, everyone in Chicago gets to consider…Read More

Southpod Showcast! – Episode 3.29.13 – The eve of Opening Day

Our long regional nightmare is over, the Southpod Showcast!!!–the one and only podcast associated…Read More

Danks and Sale finding their places in the rotation

Robin Ventura responded to Chris Sale’s worst outing of the spring by naming him the White Sox…Read More

The 2015 White Sox

Not to indicate a diminished level of excitement for this year’s team–how can we ever write…Read More

Chris Sale extends, to the delight of many

In order to ensure to a reasonable degree of certainty that baseball is the only job they’ll ever really need…Read More

The little wrinkle in the Chris Sale narrative

There’s a lot to like in the description of the White Sox approach to managing Chris Sale provided…Read More

Southside Showdown Preseason Roundtable Pt. 3

Continued from earlier, our nervous bantering together What are you excited about this season? Are you…Read More

Three days into Spring Training and everything is still fine

Spring Training stories, especially in the first week, are a wellspring of positivity and optimism that…Read More