Teams & Topics: White Sox
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Breaking Down The Impending Decline Of The Chicago White Sox
The White Sox are floundering at the outset of the season, and it looks like things are going to get much worse before they get better.
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I Like Hawk Harrelson. So Sue Me.
When he goes nuts, Jeff forgives him, because Jeff goes nuts sometimes, too. For Jeff, the important thing is that Harrelson, unlike other announcers, is focused on every crumb of action and lets a ball game breathe.
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White Sox Attendance Woes Extend To Spring Training
Folks in Sox black have been lonelier than usual in the Grand Canyon State this spring. What’s it all mean?
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The Big Hurt Still Hurts
By all accounts, Frank Thomas today is a success — but he is far from adored in Chicago. What gives? ChicagoSide’s Ben Strauss take another look at his favorite White Sox slugger.
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ChicagoSide 2012 Cubs-White Sox Awards
Now that the traditional MLB awards have been announced—Cabrera, Trout, Dickey, etc.—it’s time for the first-annual ChicagoSide Sox-Cubs awards. You’re welcome.
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The Audacity of a White Sox Fan: Why Chicago Sports Matter to President Obama
As election day nears and everything begins to feel like politics, Chicago fans might be inclined to wonder: Is he really a die-hard Chicago sports fan? And does it matter?
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A Postcard From Arizona: Fall League Cubs, White Sox
The Arizona Fall League, which holds forth in the Valley of the Sun, is baseball’s—and Arizona’s—best-kept secret, and persists in that distinction even though it’s regularly advertised as such. That’s just how Fred Klein likes it
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October Vanishes: A Poem For The 2012 Chicago White Sox
As the rival Detroit Tigers cleanly sweep the Yankees to reach the World Series, ChicagoSide’s poet laureate, Dave Landsberger, offers this dirge to the 2012 White Sox.
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The Secret Of ‘Pitcher Pollock’
With every piece of sports memorabilia, it’s not the object that’s valuable. It’s the story attached to the object that’s priceless. And sometimes all it takes is sifting through a few pages from an old book to find a great story.
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A Loser’s Guide To The MLB Playoffs
What do you do when your team is eliminated and baseball is moving on to the postseason? In Chicago, this is almost never a hypothetical question. But fear not. Savage, channeling Royko, is here to help you root correctly.
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A Late-September Afternoon At Sox Park
Youkilis wouldn’t play on Yom Kippur Eve, so the Sox changed the time of Tuesday’s game against the Indians to 1:10 p.m.—a rare, afternoon tilt. With the Sox just a game up and about a week of season left, how could the writer miss it?
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Take Me Out To The Art Gallery
All through summer and into fall, our editor-in-chief has been bothered by a notion that baseball has lost its grip on the nation, that it’s doomed to go the way of Tiddlywinks, Atari, and maybe even books. Then he received an invitation to an opening at the Arts Club of Chicago.
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Mariotti: Did Someone Say Choke?
Fun? No one is having any. This is torture, Chicago baseball-style, and if the Cubs have perfected the art of the choke, the White Sox are getting the hang of it in the regular season’s final days.
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I Hate The White Sox/Fuck You, Pt. 1
As part of our ongoing Cubs/Sox deliberations, we asked two of our favorite fans to go head to head. You’re welcome. Joel Reese begins, and Tony Fitzpatrick responds.
