Category Archives: Opinion

Dismantlement Plan

Sale! Sale! Everyone MUST GO! Seriously. All of them. Now.

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Bandit Like Beckham

All this useless baseball.

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Say What?

From now on, let’s just believe everything Ozzie Guillen, Greg Walker, and, oh, everyone else says all the time. Why could they possibly have to cover up?

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Just Beat the Twins

If only it were that simple.

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Hope Springs Partial

They have a chance to make history, these Sox. It’s just a question of which kind of history.

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When the Sox Fight Authority, Authority Always Wins

In which Bobby Jenks learns the high price and steep cost of sticking it to The Man.

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What a Weird Thing to Have Happen

A few words on Ozzie Guillen’s most shocking managerial move ever OR How we can all learn to stop worrying about baseball and start thinking about winning at all costs.

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White Sox and Silver Linings

Maybe the Sox are terrible. So what? At this point, pretty much everybody in the American League is terrible as well.

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There is No Reason for Alex Rodriguez to Play Baseball Ever Again

Alex Rodriguez is a great baseball player, maybe even the best ever, and that’s about the last thing any of us needs right now.

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Dichotomy

Two teams walk into a Kansas City bar. One says “hit me.” The other says “Sure, but only if you hit me first. Repeatedly.”

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Sunday Is Like Every Day

Hey man, don’t you dare disrespect the work of Mark L. Johnson. Not in my house, you won’t.

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It’s Not the Spotlight

“Sox-Rangers” just doesn’t have that contentious, national-level ring to it.

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Carlos Quentin’s Season is Twenty Percent Over

A few words on the downside of hot starts OR We are all in Hawk Harrelson Heaven right about now.

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Bold Predictions: Life on the Street

There is a saying in Baltimore that baseball games may be played in fifty ways and that all of them end poorly.

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Things That Happen At Historic Ballparks

How to spot a loser OR the difference between pinstripes and small bears.

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Not Even Confidence Can Save Them

The Sox’ pitching coach can work a lot of miracles, but perhaps some All-Star relievers were simply not meant to be salvaged.

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