Category Archives: Opinion

The Rays Are Much Better Than We Thought

Losing is losing and that’s all there is to it, so let’s just fill out the L column and call it a day.

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Pretty. Ugly, Too.

These will be the times that try Sox fans’ souls. [The Beachwood Reporter]

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The Other Sox Broadcaster

A few words on the slightly forgotten play-by-play man.

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Keys, Schmeys: What The Sox Really Need To Do Is A Whole Lot Of Everything

Taking issue with what everyone says about everything, everwhere in all of Soxland.

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It’s the Question That Drives Us

It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did. [Mouthpiece Sports]

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Sell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids!

Slightly-above average times call for psychotic moves beyond comprehension. [Mouthpiece Sports]

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Rethinking Our Blind Hatred of the All-Star Game

It’s not that the All-Star Game it’s stupid; it’s that sports are stupid.

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The Team They Just Killed

The Sox are winning lately. This is not a good thing.

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Bold Predictions: We’re Not In Schaumburg Anymore, Chad

I’m starting with the fan in the mirror; I’m asking him to change his ways.

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Booing Manny Would Be Even More Fun Now

O, the things you miss when the Boston Red Sox don’t take our feelings into account.

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The Civil Rights Game Counts For More Than You Think

Sometimes something as simple as a baseball game isn’t really all that simple.

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Of Pudges and Persistence

There can be only one and, depending on who you ask, there still is.

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Cubs-Sox Isn’t Dead, Just Really Pathetic

Remember when these teams were both soooo great? Yeah, me either. Death to the Cubs!

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In Praise of Interleague Baseball

It’s not that anyone wants the AL-NL showdowns, it’s just that so many people absolutely need them.

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Signs of This Year’s Apocalypse

They’ve got problems. We’ve got answers. (Just kidding about the answers!)

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Oh! Sweet Nothing

Forget the Indians, for they are merely the less funny of two jokes.

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  • "[New] Comiskey's tragedy is one of hype, not hubris. Sold to the public as a new-fangled stadium with old fashioned intimacy, it is in fact a theater designed by the dictates of the dollar -- a theater in which perception and reality combine to form the wrong sort of high drama."
    - Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune architecture reporter