{"id":2,"date":"2008-04-16T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-04-21T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T19:16:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/about","title":{"rendered":"What Was The 35th Street Review?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 35th Street Review<\/em> was a web publication focused primarily on happenings with the Chicago White Sox, Major League Baseball, general sports, and life in Chicago itself. Our focus here was not just goings on in<\/em> the game but also on happenings around<\/em> the game; from 2007 to 2010, this was the fringe lit-mag of Windy City sports blogs. The 35th Street Review<\/em> quickly became a mainstay of local “best of” blog roundups, and received mentions nationally at ESPN.com, Yahoo! Sports, and on The Jay Leno Show<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Published one to many times per week, usually from the home office in Chicago, The 35th Street Review<\/em> was written mainly by its managing editor but with outside voices welcomed and encouraged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE EDITOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Reilly holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia College Chicago and had been writing online about the Good Guys since the halcyon days of South Side Baseball<\/em>. His non-sporting work has appeared in The A.V. Club<\/em>, Ghost Factory<\/em>, The Angler<\/em>, and Jargon Chicago<\/em>, to name a few, but you can read more about that on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q: So what was this, another Sox blog or something?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Yes and no. Yes in that we covered current goings-on with the Chicago White Sox, and to a lesser extent Major League Baseball and Chicago sports in general, but no in that we usually stayed away from in-depth game analysis and hardcore statistical analysis. There are plenty of other sites that cover those things far better than we could.<\/p>\n

Q: So what am I going to find here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: <\/strong>Oh, lots of things: state of the team columns; historical looks back at players and teams past; goings on around town; musings on front-office activity; and, you know, whatever else we think needed to be talked about.<\/p>\n

Q: What was the best thing ever published here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Well, they’re all great, but the legendary piece about Javier Vazquez<\/a> comes to mind, as do everything on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Q: What was the most popular?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> The now-famous 2009 Spring Training Report template<\/a> by a long shot. This was the piece that put us on the map nationally, so to speak.<\/p>\n

Q: How often was this site updated?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Whenever.<\/p>\n

Q: Why did you shut it down?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> This<\/a> explains it pretty exhaustively.<\/p>\n

RARELY ASKED QUESTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q: Better pitcher: 1993 Jack McDowell or 2005 Mark Buehrle? <\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> McDowell, no question.<\/p>\n

Q: What was your preferred name for the park the Sox play in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> “Comiskey,” although “Sox Park,” “The Cell,” or “The Joan” were also acceptable.<\/p>\n

Q: Which teams were the sworn enemies of this site?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> In baseball terms, the Twins; in social terms, the Cubs; in econo-political terms, the Yankees; in life, all of them.<\/p>\n

Q: What kind of guest writers did you have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Most were fellow baseball bloggers, but we also invited a few fiction writers, some business folks, and posted a handful of assorted random submissions. Rest assured there were plenty of pieces we rejected, but plenty of invitations we never got a response to, either.<\/p>\n

Q: Who is your favorite player?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> This question became unanswerable on a number of levels the day I exceeded the average age of Major League Baseball players.<\/p>\n

Q: Where did your column and feature ideas come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> This is the internet, so they were obviously stolen.<\/p>\n

Q: Anything else I should ask while I have you on the line?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Nah. But feel free to get in touch<\/a> if you think of something.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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