Section Archives: Opinion

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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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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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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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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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 Epic And Eccentric Of Trading For Juan Pierre

Juan Pierre isn’t this and he isn’t that; Juan Pierre just is.

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Looking For Improvement In All The Wrong Places

The past three weeks are every reason I often hate being a White Sox fan.

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Yelling About Bobby Jenks’ Weight Is Like Yelling About The Brightness Of The Sun

Hey did you know Bobby Jenks is a big dude? That’s awesome. You can read all about it in the newspaper.

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Weep Not For Gordon Beckham

So he finished fifth in Rookie of the Year voting. So what?

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Pretty Good As Gold

Mark Buehrle’s new hardware tells everyone else what we already knew, and that he’s also a solid defender.

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The One Where We Learn About Joe Girardi

They can win the World Series in one easy step: all the Phillies really have to do is crush the two greatest postseason pitchers of all time. At once. Piece of cake, right?

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How to Fix the White Sox In One Fell Swoop

The psychotic, improbable manuever that could reshape South Side baseball as we know it.

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The Hatred and Hilarity in Game One of the 2009 World Series

The hand that controls the dolphin is the hand that makes those terrible throws from Yankee Stadium’s right field, plus other notes from an evening of watching someone else’s team have a good time.

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That Was Then And This Is Not

On the anniversary of the Sox’ 2005 World Series victory, an examination of what we really got from that most fantastic of outcomes.

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More Like The End Of Sports Encapsulation

This newfangled language recognition/auto-journalism technology thingy isn’t killing off anything we need worry ourselves with. Mostly.

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Live from the Bitter End

Failure implies a chance of success, and with these guys the goal always seemed a little less clearly defined.

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