Category Archives: Features

Thome’s Homies: A Retrospective by the Numbers

Some numbers are greater than the sum of their parts. Five-hundred, for example.

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Cheering at the Seams

Finding the silver lining on 162 games of gray.

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The Prototypical Sox Outfield Prospect

Exploring the myth of the promising young Sox outfielder.

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Shank or Be Shanked!

Chain mail? Check. Shiv? Check. Skull? Check. Baseball? Did anyone remember to bring the baseball?

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The Mediocrity Report: Weekend Edition

In which your editor is right and everything else in the baseball world is horribly, horribly wrong.

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Trading the Past for a Different Part of the Past

Say hello and wave sayonara to another South Side icon.

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Mad Libs

Sports reporting made easy, courtesy of the 2007 Chicago White Sox.

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Ape

Excitement and disgust, if you think about them, are kind of the same thing.

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Channeling Vince Lombardi

I owe some of the worst things in my life to baseball. Especially 2007 White Sox baseball.

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My News Can Beat Up Your News

In the world according to the sports media, Mark Buehrle will never pitch for the Sox again. Can I get a source on that?

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Five-Hundo’s Eve

Fifteen years of Chicago baseball as defined by one sliver of laminated photo paper.

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The Reilly Plan

If you’re gonna tumble into last place, tumble into last place with your boots on.

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Praying for Rain

Pain don’t hurt. Watching 2-1 beatdowns, however, hurts very much.

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Why It Matters

On the true meaning of the best, stupidest rivalry in all of sports.

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