Your busy editor thinks the Twins’ loss is everyone else’s loss, and that Gordon Beckham is the logical heir to the Robinson Cano fortune.
Contempt, nonsense and vague threats over the airwaves mean the season is here, even if it hasn’t actually started.
They’re only sleepers if you didn’t see them coming.
Ozzie meets the internet and hope runs face-first into the future. They’re like bloodlines, but without the bloody part.
That’s a lot of Coney Dogs.
As the greatest hitter in franchise history calls it a day, the author finds the future was always written on a slab of laminated plastic.
The most annoying part of your baseball experience, now made even more so.
Coming soon to a sports page near you.
The worst thing that could have happened to the White Sox didn’t. But that’s still a sad way to end up.
The fate of the most DHingest players on the DHingest team in the DHingest little city in America, ordered chronologically from saddest to truest.
It even says so in the newspaper.
“We need guns. Lots of guns.”
Our former president once joked that C students could one day become president themselves, to which your editor asks: why bother with politics when you could be the next Ken Vining? Part five in a series.
Filed Under: Features | Read More: Carlos Lee, Chicago White Sox, Dan Wright, Decade In Review, Esteban Loaiza, Herbert Perry, Jose Valentin, Magglio Ordonez, Mike Sirotka, Neal Cotts, retrospectives, Shingo Takatsu |
Even when there are two, there can be only one, and you already know who it is. Part four in a series.
At the decade’s end, it really only matters what you value. Hilarity, for example, can be a reasonable substitute for pride. Part three in a series.
Filed Under: Features | Read More: 2002, 2007, 2009, Andy Gonzalez, Boone Logan, bust prospects, Chicago White Sox, Darrin Erstad, Decade In Review, Dewon Day, Ehren Wassermann, Jeff Liefer, Jose Valentin, losing, Mark Buehrle, retrospectives, Willie Harris |
Jeff at Royally Speaking asked for some sage wisdom on his favorite team’s newest treasure from the South Side scrapyard. As much as I hate to ruin a surprise, this one would only ruin itself. Surprise! [Royally Speaking]
When are 96 wins no better than 90, and when are they even worse than 89 (which were technically 88 in the first place)? When you’re the Chicago White Sox, that’s when. Part two in a series.
Filed Under: Features | Read More: 2000, 2006, 2008, Brian Anderson, Carlos Quentin, Chicago White Sox, Decade In Review, Frank Thomas, Herbert Perry, Jermaine Dye, Jim Thome, Jon Garland, Jose Valentin, Kip Wells, Paul Konerko, playoffs, retrospectives |
