Author Archives: Andrew Reilly

South Side Baseball

Longtime readers may remember South Side Baseball, the predecessor to the site you see before you. As of this afternoon I’ve finished loading the posts, articles and features from SSB that didn’t get lost in the move to 35th Street. For those who just joined up this past season, now’s your chance to catch up [...]

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Bronzeville (or, Who Votes In These Things, Anyway?)

In the scheme of things, first place does not really equal third place and winning does not make you victorious.

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Brick

The Nick Swisher era comes to an end. Hope is burned for fuel, and all is kind of well.

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Second-Best

A Sox player losing out to someone else by a couple of votes? Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Rescheduler

How to solve the ills of baseball scheduling? Take a cue from that other, more successful pro sports league. Concept baseball takes a small leap forward.

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Album Review: stickfigure, “Ape of the Kings”

If rock is a sport, somebody might want to get Paul Assenmacher on the phone.

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Point/Counterpoint: Keys to the 2009 A.L. Pennant

Introducing the 35th Street Review’s newest feature. In this installment: three, maybe three-and-a-half easy steps to dominating the junior circuit next year.

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The Battle for the Soul of Javier Vazquez

Got an angel on one shoulder, got a league leader in strikeouts on the other.

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Twenty-Four

In which we offer up a few words to mark the dawn of someone else’s Joe Crede era.

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Royal Roundtable

Jeff at Royally Speaking invited me to participate in another roundtable discussion, this time looking at the 2008 AL Central in review. You can read it in its entirety here.

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Decision ’08

Everything you need to know in time for this Election Day.

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Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run (Comes to an End)

On the South Side, anyway. Notes from a decade around the SNES League.

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Those Were the Days, Apparently

The sports media longs for the World Series of yore – but no one’s really sure why.

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Your 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox

Happy anniversary, everyone. ESPN AM1000′s 2005 year-end audio montage: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] U.S. Cellular Field 2006 game-opening video montage:

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26 October 2005

A few words on the upcoming anniversary of the last great moment in Chicago sports.

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Bold Predictions: Someone Else’s World Series Edition

To enjoy this year’s World Series is really nothing more than to revel in the same loathing and contempt we always have. And that’s a good thing.

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