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The 35th Street Guide To 2010 White Sox Fantasy Baseball

They’re only sleepers if you didn’t see them coming.

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The Probable Outcomes Of Passing On A Pure DH

The fate of the most DHingest players on the DHingest team in the DHingest little city in America, ordered chronologically from saddest to truest.

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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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Bold Predictions: Your Sweeps Will Mean Nothing!

Q: What’s the difference between May in Chicago and September in Kansas City? A: Six pounds of ribs.

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Bold Predictions: Chicago Rock City

Second and fourth places have never been so horrifically similar.

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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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Bold Predictions: The Lesser of Two Extremes Edition

Things to watch for in this weekend’s Twins-Raiders series.

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Previewing Tomorrow’s News

With Opening Day postponed due to hilariously inclement weather, let us offer up suggestions for the back page headline of tomorrow’s Sun-Times:

Snow Way!
Snow-Hitter
Say It Ain’t Snow!
Snow-pening Day
Home Snow-pener
That’s a White Sox Win-ter
Good God, What A Terrible City We Live In Where It Snows During Baseball Season

Stay tuned!

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The Season After

In the wake of their magical fourth-place finish in 2008, what’s in store for the Kansas City Royals? The answer will probably not surprise you. Part four in a series.

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City Primeval

This season’s forecast for Detroit: generally gloomy but with a 58% chance of sunshine. Part two in a series.

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The Enemy Has Put Us on Notice, General

With prediction season upon us, we rounded up the best and brightest minds on the internet to gaze deeply into the future. Part one in a series.

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Draft YOU, That’s My Name!

Presenting the 35th Street guide to fantasy baseball drafting.

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Things to Watch in Chicago Baseball in 2009

Ten things that will happen in Chicago baseball, all based on nothing in particular.

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Bold Predictions: A Non-Vote of Confidence

What we talk about when we talk about Non-Sox playoff series:
Cubs/Dodgers: If the Sox win (more on that tomorrow), may the Cubs win as well; if not, well, it will at least be kind of fun to watch Carlos Zambrano murder one (or many!) of his teammates on national television. Whatever. Prediction: Cubs in 4 OR Dodgers [...]

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Bold Predictions: The Good That Won’t Come Out

Two teams will enter, one team will leave. Later, the other team will also leave. Which will be which?

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Bold Predictions: Sweep the Leg, Sans Johnny Edition

Three things to watch for during the final showdown between kind of good and mostly good:
Brian Anderson shall lead the Twins to victory: Scoring runs is impossible in the Dome anyway, so the Sox will need all the defense they can muster this week. This will of course explain why Ken Griffey, Jr. and Nick [...]

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Bold Predictions: Unfavorable Exchange Rate Edition

Three things to watch for as those dirty Canadians sneak across the border to steal honest American Jobs:
Their better be some fireworks. Of their 80 wins, only eight have come in games where the White Sox didn’t hit a home run. Eight. Meanwhile, Blue Jays pitching has served up 126 homers in 1,275.7 innings. The [...]

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Bold Predictions: Combat Evolved Edition

[Editor's note: This was prepared before today's news became public. Oh, irony!]
Three things to watch for as two likely playoff teams enter the Octagon this weekend:
The ressurection of White Sox offense. If Paul Konerko and Jim Thome continue to hit, the 3-6 of Carlos Quentin, Jim Thome, Jermaine Dye, and Konerko could be more than enough to put the [...]

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