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The 35th Street Post Office [December 21, 2008]

On mystery punches, spending wisely, employment prospects and the best year of the late-mid-1990s.

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In White Houses

What they’re saying about the C.C. Sabathia hypercontract. . . is exactly what they’ve been saying about hypercontracts for some time now.

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Logan’s Run

Throughout the history of the Chicago White Sox, many pitchers have come and gone. Boone Logan is one of those pitchers.

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Before His First Step, He’s Off Again

He doesn’t always drink beer but when he does, Javier Vazquez prefers Dos Equis.

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Why Jermaine?

The Dye-to-Cincy rumors persist, but no one seems to know or care why.

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Everything’s Arbitrary

Orlando Cabrera, everyone’s favorite scorer-complaining shortstop, stands in a position to end his South Side run in immortal fashion. How? Simple: accept arbitration. Now, we all know the chances of such a thing happening are essentially non-existent. But if Cabrera really is the jerk everyone said he was, why not let him prove it? Obviously [...]

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Fields Choice

Hot news off the hot stove about the hot corner. Welcome to the Midwest’s new Little Havana.

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King Salomon

There’s a little town just beneath the floodline that needs somebody with the right style.

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Brick

The Nick Swisher era comes to an end. Hope is burned for fuel, and all is kind of well.

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Point/Counterpoint: Keys to the 2009 A.L. Pennant

Introducing the 35th Street Review’s newest feature. In this installment: three, maybe three-and-a-half easy steps to dominating the junior circuit next year.

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The Battle for the Soul of Javier Vazquez

Got an angel on one shoulder, got a league leader in strikeouts on the other.

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Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run (Comes to an End)

On the South Side, anyway. Notes from a decade around the SNES League.

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Dewonder Years

In which your barstool GM explains how to turn the Sox into a juggernaut in three easy steps, based on research done by patrons of the friendly neighborhood watering hole. Seriously.

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High and Lowe

Scratch another name off the list of potential White Sox acquisitions this winter. Actually, scratch off four.

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Speeding Problem

Hey, did you know Ozzie Guillen and Kenny Williams want to improve next year’s White Sox by addition of speed in tremendous amounts? ‘We need speed, but they have to have talent,” Guillen said over the weekend. ”I know I would like to see some more speed. But when you talk about speed, you can’t [...]

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All the Critics Mock U In New York

Ah, January, in which temperatures hit -20 in Chicago and the paper of record reminds us all of our favorite team’s epic fall from grace: Only two seasons after they won the World Series for the first time since 1917, the White Sox incurred the largest dropoff in victories in the major leagues last season. [...]

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