Author Archives: Andrew Reilly

2010 Chicago Baseball Preview: Beyond Thunderdome

You root for the Cubs? The Cubs? What’s the matter with you? In case you’ve been living in a cave, or have perhaps been sequestered for the past several decades, I’d like to remind you there’s a vastly superior team just across town, far more able to compete for the long haul and already instilling [...]

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At Least Someone’s Thinking Positively

The defense part? That’s the worst part. And the scary part, too.

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On Realignment and Relegation

Surprisingly, the British really don’t have this one figured out.

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The 35th Street Post Office [March 10, 2010]

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.

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On The Simple Thrill Of Hearing The Cubs Suffer At The Hands Of The White Sox, Even If It’s Only An Exhibition Game Played By The B-Team

Contempt, nonsense and vague threats over the airwaves mean the season is here, even if it hasn’t actually started.

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The 35th Street Guide To 2010 White Sox Fantasy Baseball

They’re only sleepers if you didn’t see them coming.

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Storylines!

Ozzie meets the internet and hope runs face-first into the future. They’re like bloodlines, but without the bloody part.

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Things You Can Buy In Detroit For $8 Million

That’s a lot of Coney Dogs.

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My Favorite Baseball Card

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.

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Who Needs Orlando Hudson?

Not the Sox, that’s who.

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A Sox Fan’s Guide To The CTA Service Cuts

The most annoying part of your baseball experience, now made even more so.

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The 2010 White Sox Spring Training Preview Preview

Coming soon to a sports page near you.

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Becoming That Which They Hate

The worst thing that could have happened to the White Sox didn’t. But that’s still a sad way to end up.

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The Probable Outcomes Of Passing On A Pure DH

The fate of the most DHingest players on the DHingest team in the DHingest little city in America, ordered chronologically from saddest to truest.

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In January, Everyone Is Just So Awesome

It even says so in the newspaper.

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A Big Move Is The Only Sensible Move

“We need guns. Lots of guns.”

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The Most Average Team of the Decade

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.

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Manager of the Decade

Even when there are two, there can be only one, and you already know who it is. Part four in a series.

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