Along with “Leury Garcia is a tribute band,” one of my long-running, probably-wrong-but-not-yet-disproven theories is that the White Sox won’t be able to enjoy an actual golden age until Jerry Reinsdorf fully resists the urge to try to break a…
One of the advantages of being even-keeled and slow to anger is that it’s easy to absolve oneself of another’s broad-brushing. For instance, take Rick Hahn talking to James Fegan about how he sees his infamous “the money will be…
While Dan Hayes now covers the Twins for The Athletic, he revisited his old stomping grounds on the White Sox beat this week to talk to Robin Ventura, who is currently taking a full-time course load at Oklahoma State in…
The Streisand effect is when the attempt to suppress a story backfires and draws more attention to it than if it were simply left alone. The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is when something you were previous unaware of keeps appearing on your…
So far, the Tony La Russa hiring has been incredibly beneficial to White Sox fans who wanted to learn the inner workings of Maricopa County’s justice system. For instance, did you know that there are 26 separate jurisdictions within the…
If Jerry Reinsdorf’s swipe at the Major League Baseball Players Association during his interview with Bob Nightengale rang a bit hollow, perhaps it’s because the labor picture was a secondary consideration for the availability. Two days after Reinsdorf told Nightengale…
As I made my way through John Helyar’s “Lords of the Realm” during the public, contentious negotiations between Major League Baseball and the MLBPA, I kept wondering if we’d soon see in real time the Jerry Reinsdorf captured in the…
While Jerry Reinsdorf hasn’t been particularly willing to speak on anything White Sox related that isn’t celebratory, the strength of an alumni connection was enough to get him to reveal anything about the present situation. Reinsdorf, who earned his bachelor’s…
Like a sizable chunk of the sports-starved world, I watched the first two installments of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” series on the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls on Sunday night, and would’ve easily sat for a third. I can’t yet tell if…
Baseball is officially in a standstill, more or less, although Trevor Bauer did what he could by staging a sandlot-style wiffle ball game in Arizona. James Fegan wrote a wrap-up story from White Sox camp, where players and staffers are…