So we’re still at a stalemate in regard to Major League Baseball being played at some point in 2020, if at all. The owners have been performing a full-court press, including Cubs owner Tom Ricketts appearing on a video forum with season ticket holders to turn his pockets inside out and hope moths fly out. […]
Former White Sox outfielder Michael Jordan is back in the spotlight, after ESPN aired the first two hour-long episodes of a 10 hour documentary on his side job as a professional basketball player. Jordan spent the 1994 baseball season with the AA Birmingham Barons, slashing .202/.289/.266 in a park that was notorious for being unfriendly […]
Baseball has always been a harbinger. The promise of summer,. Of sunshine. Of warm nights dripping with the air that seemed to be the life’s blood of our game. The electricity surging through the crowds that seemed to power the lights as well as the players. The warm air will come, as will the light […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Mike Tresh. Can you name someone who was born in Hazelton PA, was a catcher, […]
In this regular feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Moe Berg. (Moe Berg) was the strangest man to ever play baseball – Casey Stengel […]
Nobody was able to watch Spring Training games on Saturday, as the White Sox were rained out and the Cubs were on the Marquee Network. Sorry, Cub fans…you missed out on the inaugural Ryan Dempster Harry Caray imitation. On Sunday, the White Sox had to be encouraged by Dylan Cease’s outing, going two innings, allowing […]
After a seemingly interminable wait, White Sox baseball is back today, with the spring training opener at 2:05 today at Camelback Ranch vs. the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Orange County, California, Unites States of America. Okay, I’m done. …Planet Earth. [dodges several tomatoes thrown at my face] It won’t be long before the […]
Cubs manager David Ross (yeah, that still sounds weird) confirmed that Kris Bryant will be the Cubs’ leadoff hitter to start the 2020 season. He didn’t dance around the issue, saying it made sense to him to have his best hitter getting the most at bats. Of course, having a leadoff hitter whose worst on […]
I was so excited for the start of this White Sox season that I had a sign made up to celebrate pitchers and catchers reporting this week, but the Astros stole it. [gets Vaudeville hook] While this offseason has been dominated by investigations and punishments for stealing signs, the White Sox made a lot of […]
It’s everyone’s (well, at least someone’s) favorite time of year, when seasonal projections start coming out. Fangraphs has dropped the ZiPS projections for both the White Sox and Cubs, and as you can guess, the difference in each team’s trajectory shows. Now here is a quick explanation of how these projections are cooked up: Basically, […]