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South Side Sox 3 hours ago
Guardians 8, White Sox 5: UGLY

Guardians 8, White Sox 5: UGLY

Luis Robert Jr.’s struggles continue, with an 0-for-4 afternoon. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/ Don’t let the final score fool you: This one wasn’t close Before the team took the field in Glendale this afternoon, the Pale Hose announced that Garrett Crochet has been named the White Sox Opening Day starter. While this will be Crochet’s first career major league start, he has been electric so far this spring. He has appeared in four spring games with one start, allowing seven hits, no runs, no walks, 12 strikeouts, and a 0.78 WHIP in nine innings pitched. Got the nod for...
South Side Sox 8 hours ago
Gamethread: Guardians at White Sox

Gamethread: Guardians at White Sox

Newly acquired pitching prospect Drew Thorpe makes his Sox debut. | mlb.com For Camelback Ranch eyes only ... Happy Monday, friends! ... ... ... Hahahah, or not. Happy? Yeah, right. I saw snow flurries out my window this morning — on the 18th day of March — MARCH! How the bloody hell does that make for a happy Monday? UGH. Do you know what would make this a happy Monday? Watching Drew Thorpe, the newest White Sox pitching prospect, make his debut in Glendale against those loathsome Cleveland Guardians. Well, because, of course, no Monday can really be all that...
South Side Sox 11 hours ago
Today in White Sox History: March 18

Today in White Sox History: March 18

On this day eight years ago, dumb got dumber. | @BNightengale/Twitter On this day eight years ago, dumb things got much dumber for the South Siders 1942 White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes granted Black players Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland a tryout with the White Sox, while the Pale Hose conducted spring training in Pasadena, Calif. Neither player made the cut. After also failing to make the Boston Red Sox after a tryout, Robinson was signed to play for the Kansas City Monarchs three years later, becoming an All-Star as a rookie and breaking the color barrier in MLB in...
South Side Sox Mar 17, 2024
White Sox 3, Athletics 3: Sounds about right

White Sox 3, Athletics 3: Sounds about right

There’s no pictures from the game today, so here’s Eloy Jiménez smiling, with a cool beverage. | Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports Nick Nastrini looked good, but of course the Athletics had to tie it up in the ninth inning... The Chicago White Sox almost got the win after a home run in the top of the ninth, but the Oakland Athletics decided to tie it up in the bottom of the inning, 3-3, and that was that. There are barely any videos or any coverage of today’s game, so bear with me. Good news ... Nick Nastrini came out firing. He even had a pickoff in the bottom of...
South Side Sox Mar 17, 2024
Gamethread: White Sox at Athletics

Gamethread: White Sox at Athletics

Eloy Jiménez is back after being absent from the lineup the last few days. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Sit back, folks, it’s the game of the year! Happy Sunday and more importantly, happy St. Patrick’s Day! As if the White Sox don’t give enough reason to drink, at least today there’s a reasonable exception. In all seriousness, the team will visit the Oakland Athletics at Hohokam Stadium, with Nick Nastrini and Alex Wood facing off. #WhiteSox make one roster move: pic.twitter.com/zwTM5rxu1V— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 17, 2024 Prior...
South Side Sox Mar 16, 2024
Split squads go splat, lose to Giants and Mariners

Split squads go splat, lose to Giants and Mariners

Bad day at The Office. | Vlipsy Combined score of 19-9, and they weren’t that close Well, you knew the winning streak couldn’t go on forever, right? Or maybe even up to St. Patrick’s Day. THE GAME ON TV — SOX FALL TO GIANTS 11-7Don’t even ask how bad it was before the game was turned over to players bound for Double-A. But, OK, since you asked ... White Sox starter Chad Kuhl punched a surefire ticket to Charlotte, or maybe Birmingham, by giving up three runs on two homers in 2 2⁄3 innings, which is too bad, because the way the 2024 season is going to be, we...
South Side Sox Mar 16, 2024
Gamethread(s): Split squads take on split squads

Gamethread(s): Split squads take on split squads

All kinds of splits going on today. | pinterest White Sox face Giants and Mariners It’s split-squad White Sox hosting split-squad Giants and other split-squad White Sox at split-squad Mariners, as the Sox have a chance to stretch their four-game winning streak to match or even exceed last season’s best run. And you even get to see one, if you want. THE GAME ON TV — GIANTS AT WHITE SOXAt 3:05pm we get to see if John Schriffen has managed to unveil a hitherto-undiscovered sense of humor, as he and Steve Stone call a game featuring two non-roster starting pitchers...
South Side Sox Mar 16, 2024
South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 3-11): Eloy Jiménez

South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 3-11): Eloy Jiménez

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox A rundown of our lifetime MVPs, at 86 and counting Given a second consecutive Player of the Week accolade plus the unlikelihood he’ll win a third straight (Eloy has not played since March 13, gulp), we’ll go a different direction with the essay this week. Perhaps for the first time, let’s break down the running total of MVPs, which we have been naming now along with Mitch Ransdell’s art — based on South Side Sox reader votes — for four years now, dating back to Andrew Vaughn on March 9, 2021. Vaughn in fact won the very next...
South Side Sox Mar 16, 2024
Let’s get new White Sox nicknames!

Let’s get new White Sox nicknames!

Now, this is a real Pale Hose. | Grainger.com A picturesque, picture-filled plea Now is the time to put the Pale Hose to death! No, not the team — that would be a tad drastic — the nickname. It was apt in 1910 when it was created. It ain’t apt now. We’ll take a look at hose, pale and otherwise, through the years coming up, complete with pretty pictures. But first, we digress. A NEW AND APT NICKNAME FOR THE BULK OF THE ORGANiZATIONWe know that the main criterion — make that the only one — for a lofty front office or managerial job with the White Sox, on the...
South Side Sox Mar 16, 2024
Today in White Sox History: March 16

Today in White Sox History: March 16

Accorded little respect despite a strong 1982 season, Rudy Law made some bold predictions on this day, 41 years ago. | Chicago Sun-Times Rudy Law predicts a big season 1900 American League president Ban Johnson unveils a key new city for the junior circuit: Chicago. Charles Comiskey, tight with Johnson to the point of sharing office space with him in Chicago, will move his St. Paul Saints into town to join the AL. Johnson brokers an agreement with the Chicago Orphans (Cubs) both to share the city and use the old NL nickname of White Stockings. In a hilariously strange...
South Side Sox Mar 15, 2024
Gamethread White Sox vs. Cubs

Gamethread White Sox vs. Cubs

Chris Flexen’s class picture. | Michael Reaves/ Let’s play two! Happy Friday, folks! We’ve got a redline series today in sunny Arizona. The White Sox face the Cubs, who have demolished the South Siders twice so far in the spring training games. Can the White Sox win on their home field, or will the Cubs continue to decimate the Good Guys? Chris Flexen is on the mound first with a fairly reoccurring (maybe even Opening Day) lineup. White Sox vs. Cubs at Camelback Ranch! pic.twitter.com/UCTmzqnSqb— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 15, 2024 For those...
South Side Sox Mar 15, 2024
Sox Populi Podcast 173 — Goodbye, Dylan Cease

Sox Populi Podcast 173 — Goodbye, Dylan Cease

Brian O’Neill, Dante Jones, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Brett Ballantini discuss the Cease deal and shout over a possible return of [redacted] Dante Jones, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Brian O’Neill join Brett Ballantini to address the formal surrender of the 2024 season, as the White Sox dealt Dylan Cease to San Diego for three prospects and a bullpen arm. Thoughts on that, and who might replace him in the rotation: Temperature check on the return for the team ace Dividing right along hairstyle sides, Brian and Dante are partial to Samuel Zavala, while Melissa and Brett...
South Side Sox Mar 15, 2024
Today in White Sox History: March 15

Today in White Sox History: March 15

On this day 121 years ago, Harry Gleason reported to the wrong Sox. | Chicago Tribune Harry Gleason keeps a hole open at third base 1903 Possibly the weirdest roster snafus in a single season continue, as Harry Gleason (brother of future White Sox manager Kid Gleason) is signed by Chicago — but chooses to report to his former team, the Boston Red Sox (née Americans), instead! The comedy of outlaw-player errors began when George Davis, after having doubled his salary by signing with the White Sox, jumping from the National (New York) to American (Chicago) League...
South Side Sox Mar 14, 2024
White Sox 5, Angels 1: Pale Hose play small ball to win third straight

White Sox 5, Angels 1: Pale Hose play small ball to win third straight

Zach Remillard and the White Sox put away the lumber and broke out the small ball in Glendale. | Adam Bettcher/ Pitching and hitting wins games. Who knew? After scoring 29 runs in their last two games, the White Sox played some small ball on their way to a third straight win. They scratched out five runs on nine hits while only committing one error (late in the game). Michael Soroka, Garrett Crochet, and Jesse Chavez combined to hold the Los Angeles Angels scoreless through eight innings. Picking up the action in the bottom of the first, Andrew Benintendi and Yoán...
South Side Sox Mar 14, 2024
Gamethread: Angels @ White Sox

Gamethread: Angels @ White Sox

Man undeserving of job fails upward in perpetuity. | Michael Reaves/ Oh, there’s a spring game to follow? It’s a gloomy Thursday afternoon in Chicago, a day befitting the official start of yet another White Sox attempt to rebuild through half-measures, hubris, and detritus washed to the banks of Bubbly Creek. Yes, 2016 was indeed eight years ago, but it sure doesn’t feel like we are so far removed from the last fire-sale-in-hopes-of-someday-being-good-enough. In case you missed the breaking news yesterday evening, after months of rumor and speculation, the...

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