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Former Rays 1B Johnson joins White Sox (AP)
2012-02-03 21:13:00 First baseman Dan Johnson, whose dramatic home run on the final night of the regular season helped Tampa Bay reach last year’s playoffs, has agreed to a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox. Johnson hit a tying, two-out, two-strike homer off Cory Wade in the ninth inning of regular-season finale against the Yankees, ...
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Dodgers, White Sox to play benefit game (AP)
2012-02-03 01:21:00 The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox will play a spring training game in Tucson, Ariz., on March 23 to benefit the Christina-Taylor Green Foundation. The game will be played at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium with all proceeds going to the foundation named for the daughter of Dodgers scout John Green.
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Why the White Sox probably won’t be particularly competitive in 2012
2012-01-18 16:46:00 I accepted an invitation to start writing once a week at Southside Showdown, and started things out by telling my new audience that the 2012 team would probably be pretty bad. Â First impressions! You have to click the title for the link, and to be whisked off to a different, weird place to read the... Read more »
White Sox?s Viciedo recruiting Cespedes (AP)
2012-01-17 22:33:00 Dayan Viciedo is looking to his native Cuba to find some help for the Chicago White Sox. The 22-year-old Viciedo said Tuesday he has talked to fellow Cuban outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and Jorge Soler to offer them advice as they try to get major league contracts. “This is about me reaching out to my fellow ...
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Much better moments in White Sox History - The Blackout Game
2012-01-09 14:16:00 Perhaps I’m a bit of a sap, but all this talk of rebuilding and possibly competent attempts to be competitive are kind of, well, sad. Â Ripe for uproarious mockery for sure, but still kind of sad. Â In an effort to pep things up, and being the proud owner a robust iTunes gift card, I’d though... Read more »
White Sox trade Frasor back to Blue Jays (AP)
2012-01-01 20:23:00 Reliever Jason Frasor has been traded back to the Toronto Blue Jays by the Chicago White Sox for minor league pitchers Myles Jaye and Daniel Webb. Frasor, a right-hander, was 3-3 with a 3.60 ERA in 64 relief appearances with Chicago and Toronto last season. Chicago acquired him and pitcher Zach Stewart from the Blue ...
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Padres acquire OF Quentin from White Sox (AP)
2011-12-31 21:13:00 Four years after trading Carlos Quentin from Arizona to the Chicago White Sox, new Padres general manager Josh Byrnes is bringing the All-Star outfielder back home to San Diego. Byrnes made his second bold move in two weeks when he acquired Quentin from the White Sox for two prospects Saturday. The trade is expected to ...
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The White Sox have their own definition of rebuilding, which still doesn�
2011-12-23 15:47:00 “Rebuilding” is a term that has some pretty rigid standards in the baseball world. Â You ship out all your valuable trade chips for prospects, and dutifully wait through years of futility as they and your presumably competently selected draft picks mature. Â Low-cost veteran stopgaps, and low-ceiling youngsters will dot the big league roster in the... Read more »
Reports: White Sox extend Danks 5 years (AP)
2011-12-22 06:14:00 Multiple media outlets were reporting Wednesday night that the Chicago White Sox and pitcher John Danks have agreed in principle on a contract extension. ESPNChicago.com and CBSSports.com, citing anonymous sources, reported the extension is for five years. CBSSports.com also reported the deal is for $65 million and will likely be announced after Christmas, assuming Danks ...
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White Sox deal closer Santos to Toronto (AP)
2011-12-06 19:47:00 The Chicago White Sox have traded closer Sergio Santos to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitching prospect Nestor Molina. The teams announced the deal Tuesday at the winter meetings. Santos had 30 saves for the White Sox last season. The 28-year-old right-hander went 4-5 with a 3.55 ERA in 63 games. Santos was in Toronto’s ...
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Free 2012 Chicago White Sox Kids Club kit
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White Sox lower ticket prices...kinda...not really
2011-11-29 15:37:00 There is one solace for the fan of the disappointingly mediocre baseball team; and it’s not the high draft pick, nor the Dylan Axelrod spot start. Â No, it’s the reluctant and marginal rollback of ticket prices. For once, the White Sox did not disappoint. Â The reductions were marginal, and maaaaan, were they reluctant: Prices for... Read more »
Cops: Man broke into White Sox GM?s home (AP)
2011-11-22 23:55:00 Authorities say a homeless man broke into Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams’ downtown townhouse, had a bite to eat and drank a beer before he left wearing Williams’ clothes and his World Series ring. On Tuesday, a Cook County judge ordered 51-year-old Wayne Field III jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond on a ...
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Few roster certainties for White Sox in 2012
2011-11-16 15:30:00 Major League Baseball is set to reach a labor agreement that could bring very significant changes to the sport. Â There are larger, long-term elements like the transfer of the Houston Astros to the the American League West, year-round interleague play, and issues with more immediate fallout such as draft bonus capping and free agent compensation... Read more »
White Sox sign LHPs Veal, Quintana (AP)
2011-11-10 23:06:00 Free agent left-handers Donnie Veal and Jose Quintana have agreed to contracts with the Chicago White Sox. The 27-year-old Veal made 19 appearances for Pittsburgh in 2009, going 1-0 with a 7.16 ERA. He spent last season in the Pirates’ system after undergoing Tommy John surgery in June 2010. Quintana spent last season with the ...
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Four treasonous White Sox players file for free agency
2011-10-31 18:35:00 Mark Buehrle, Ramon Castro, Juan Pierre, and Omar Vizquel all filed for free agency Sunday, meaning another season will go by where no player with an expiring contract neglects to file any paperwork, continues to show up to the ballpark on a daily basis, mills about in the lobby of the executive offices, uses the... Read more »
White Sox add 3 to Ventura?s staff (AP)
2011-10-31 17:16:00 Jeff Manto, Joe McEwing and Mark Parent have joined new manager Robin Ventura’s coaching staff with the Chicago White Sox. Manto was the White Sox’s minor league hitting coordinator the last four seasons and will now be the hitting coach. McEwing managed Chicago’s Triple-A affiliate at Charlotte last season.
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White Sox introduce Robin Ventura as their new manager; human population ap
2011-10-07 14:06:00 On Thursday, the White Sox achieved something notable. Â They managed to complete a managing hire more divisive than the reign of Ozzie Guillen. Even more notable, they managed to do so with Robin Ventura, who is generally about as divisive as marshmallows, or track lighting. Three seasons removed from a playoff appearance, and fresh off... Read more »
Ozzie Guillen's tenure with the White Sox comes to an end
2011-09-27 16:41:00 I’ve been upset with Ozzie Guillen all season. Whether it was the misguided small ball, the frozen-in-carbonite lineups, or his most recent kamikaze take on mid-season contract negotiations, he’s been obstinate and unresponsive to pressing issues in a way that made it seem like he had just signed a 35-year extension, rather than being someone... Read more »
The White Sox are above .500 at the cost of all sanity
2011-08-17 09:56:00 The White Sox are over .500 again, thanks to a grueling 14-inning 8-7 win where they blew leads, burnt bullpens, and filleted the Cleveland Indians outfield defense like a veal cutlet. Because I was at the game, and spent over 5 hours at said game, I can’t really imagine discussing anything besides it. Â It was...
Top ten Cubs/White Sox who should be traded (but won't be)
2011-07-28 09:39:00 What great time to be a sports fan. The NFL is back with a vengeance as teams are scrambling to spend millions of dollars on unsigned players. Similarly, the MLB trade deadline is quickly approaching with the Cubs and Sox both in position to be major players in the dealings. Already the Sox have jumped...
Profiling new White Sox pitcher Zach Stewart
2011-07-27 13:46:00 The White Sox just traded Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen to Toronto for Oak Forest native Jason Frasor and pitching prospect Zach Stewart. You can get Major League trade analysis anywhere, but this is a minor league blog so we’re going to talk about the minor leaguer the Sox received. Zach Stewart pitched for three...
White Sox' midseason Top 25 prospects
2011-07-16 10:59:00 FutureSox publishes multiple editions of top prospect lists each year. The list is created by a voting system, much like AP college sports rankings, with the votes coming from six of our knowledgeable prospect gurus. We got a little behind this year and missed our preseason list, but here now is the latest edition of the FutureSox Top 25...
How to tweak the White Sox, and on the cheap too!
2011-07-14 12:00:00 Tweak, not fix. If the White Sox were a car, they wouldn’t be considered broken, or stalled out on the side of the road. It’s more that the engine has been making odd noises for the last 90 miles and it’s incapable of any kind of real acceleration. It needs improvements, and it will probably...
BP Crosstown Cup Preview (White Sox Perspective) with Ron Kittle
2011-06-30 16:31:00 As the city gears up for the second round of the BP Crosstown Cup, both teams are unfortunately enter the series below .500. In the summer of 2011, the Chicago intra-city series will be more about bragging rights than ever, unless the White Sox can get over the hump and win the AL Central. They're in striking distance for first place, unlike the Cubs, who have absolutely no shot at the postseason. Since the horrific 11-22 start, the White Sox have been playing about .600 baseball. Keep up that winning percentage, and they're projected for 86-88 wins, certainly enough to win a weak division like the AL Central. But here's a reason not to be optimistic- they seem to...
The Chicago Cubs are Ketchup, and other Reasons I'm a White Sox Fan
2011-06-29 15:57:00 In anticipation of this weekend's second leg of the biannual "Crosstown BP South Side vs. North Side Bad vs. Worse...Cup...Classic", I thought hey, why not identify my reasons for being a Sox fan, by lazily resorting to illogical metaphors, loose associations, and shameless stereotypes? Yep, no way this has been done before. I'm a Sox Fan because:Despite growing up 15 miles south of Comiskey Park, it always felt as though it was in my back yard, as if it was a salient feature of "my neighborhood". I never felt uncomfortable in my neighborhood, and likewise, never felt uncomfortable at Comiskey Park. Wrigley Field on the other hand could have been in ...Wasilla Alaska as far as I was concerned, and that...
Talking with White Sox Legend Ron Kittle at BP Crosstown Cup
2011-06-28 16:36:00 This week marks the height of summer festival season. In most major cities across North America, prominent street fairs and concert series are being held. In Chicago, BP featured the city's largest baseball at the Taste of Chicago June 24th-26th. As the entire city focuses on the BP Crosstown Cup, the annual head-to-head interleague series between the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox, (part two of the series takes place Fri July 1st-Sunday July 3rd) fans visited the BP Crosstown Cup Fan Zone at the Taste of Chicago and made their mark on the 13-foot baseball. They shared one "little thing" that makes Chicago baseball special to them. Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox legends, Andre "the Hawk" Dawson...
White Sox All-Star game candidates, and other fictional creatures
2011-06-28 08:51:00 The All-Star game is kind of silly. The fans vote for the starters, and that inevitably results in a great deal of the team being determined via popularity contest, and anyone who's been to high school knows that popularity is distributed with little rhyme nor reason. That's not good news for a team like the White Sox averaging under 24,000 fans per home game and not exactly drawing national attention for being 3 games under .500. I suppose people are gawking at Adam Dunn's 2011 like one would stop and stare if they saw a bus fall off a freeway ramp onto a Target.... but you don't vote that kind of thing into an All-Star Game.
White Sox Lose Series in Haiku: Nationals 2, White Sox 1
2011-06-28 00:48:00 Adam Dunn strikes out looking with two men on base in the first inning. (José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune / June 26, 2011) Sox lose home series Nationals take two of three Here is what I sayDone Dunn done Dunn doneDunn done Dunn done Dunn done Dunn Done Dunn done Dunn doneSo, can Adam DunnBe a competent DH?Well, so far, so bad...
White Sox Week That Was - 6/20-6/26: Mediocrity fits like a glove
2011-06-27 06:01:00 A Donkey in Trouble: I've used this sub-heading before. It's a reference to the tagline of the film Inland Empire, for which '3 hours of David Lynch doing weird stuff' is an excellent plot description. As with watching Dunn, it's long, consistently terrifying and disturbing in unpredictable intervals, and as with Dunn, there's a search for some kind of meaning, some sort of over-arching reason for everything that's happened. That's half the fun of watching Lynch movies for me. Then I read that for Inland Empire he was just writing pages of the script the day of shooting, and a search for a coherent theme was in vain. Man, that was a bummer. Three hours of creepy bunnies and evil clown faces just for the sake of creepy bunnies and evil clown faces. But that's the hope with Dunn, that these three months where he's struck out at a fantastically career-high rate, failed to cover fastballs, and seen his home run/fly ball rate plummet is just a horrific blip. A unique sl...
A tribute to the greatest player in White Sox history
2011-06-26 20:53:00 A tribute to the greatest player in White Sox history
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 3, Cubs 2
2011-06-22 21:56:00 White Sox win game two Morel drives in game winner With sacrifice fly...
White Sox in Haiku: Cubs 6, White Sox 3
2011-06-21 19:31:00 Cubs and Sox fans went at it as usual Monday, but there were fewer of them. (Scott Strazzante/Tribune) Ozzie ejected White Sox lose an early lead And game to the Cubs Are you done with Dunn? Done Dunn done Dunn done Dunn done Are you done with Dunn?...
White Sox ability to lose to bad teams put in horrifying and unwelcome spot
2011-06-21 08:46:00 (Quick question, do you use the possessive ('s) for Sox? Is it a plural or a singular? Do any rules apply seeing as it's...you know, not a real word?) Any refutation of the Cubs-Sox series having lost all it's luster can start with the capacity (or at least as close as we'll see for a while) crowd, the game leading the night on SportsCenter (thanks for that, Ozzie), and how the events of the single night become fodder for damning statements about the season.
White Sox go down 0-1 in the Cup Finals
2011-06-21 06:29:00 Stare all you want, Qua-dee, it's stayin' where it is! (Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / June 20, 2011)Welp, that was the opposite of fun. I attended tonight's first Crosstown Classic game of the year, seated in the last row of the stadium, and things looked promising. Actually, they didn't look promising because from my view, every pop out looked like a long fly ball and I couldn't tell what the hell was going on. However, things really were promising as our Sox went up 3-0 in the first inning on a goofy looking (maybe it was just my view) base-hit from TCQ and a home run from the King (his 4th straight game with a home run). After leading off...
White Sox Week That Was - 6/13-6/19: Let's just act like you turned a
2011-06-20 06:25:00 This week was one uncharacteristically light on baseball for the White Sox, with only five games thanks to an off day and a rain delay. Perhaps that's a good thing. The Sox are still 35-38 on the year, so they're kind of below average at playing baseball. That's as definitive judgment as I can manage after an intensely schizophrenic week where the White Sox dropped their first three contests while scoring two runs combined, then rode a Rios/Konerko power surge to a series win in Arizona. It was a cautionary tale about momentum, to be sure. To make things seem more reasonable, let's rationalize the heck out of it. The Sox ran into two Twins starters in Pavano and Blackburn who have been highly productive of late, were diced up by Daniel Hudson, who may just be on his way to being truly great (which just makes this worse). After that, they Sox made some token headway against two mediocre starters before sealing wins versus a Diamondbacks bullpen that kept their best cards (...
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 8, D'Backs 2
2011-06-20 03:48:00 HUMBER WINS AGAIN!! Konerko hits his nineteenth Now.....let's beat the Cubs...
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 6, D'backs 2
2011-06-19 17:10:00 (Norm Hall, Getty Images / June 18, 2011) Matt Thornton gets a high-five from Paul Konerko after beating Arizona 6-2 at Chase Field. Danks wins third straight gameSox end three game losing streak Beating the D'backs...
White Sox in Haiku: Diamondbacks 4, White Sox 1
2011-06-19 00:47:00 Sox score just one run But Hudson finds way to win.....Oops....he's not on Sox...
Will White Sox ever beat the Twins?
2011-06-17 08:00:00 This is what "All In" looks like (Elizabeth Flores, McClatchy-Tribune / June 16, 2011)Another season, same inability to beat the Twins. I don't know what it is about them. To me, this team screams "average" and they often prove it during most of the regular season. But they are always there. Without Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Sox killer Jason Kubel, this team is sorely lacking. No one told the White Sox that, though, because we are 0-4 against them this season. More of the same. Three out of four games have been decided by one run, with 2 of those (today included) being 1-0 decisions. We can't score, we waste good pitching, and we ground into double plays. Rinse...
13 White Sox Minor Leaguers Named All-Stars
2011-06-14 21:10:00 Getting lost with all the draft coverage were the roster announcements for the all-star games of several minor leagues. For White Sox affiliates, the Southern League (AA), Carolina League (High-A) and South Atlantic League (Low-A) released their all-stars. Voting for the AAA All-Star Game takes place online and you can access the ballot here. In total, 13 Sox minor leaguers received the honor and a few more could get named with promotions and injuries changing the rosters.
White Sox have SERIOUSLY Climbed back into Pennant Race
2011-06-13 18:15:00 During the infamous "White Flag trade" in early August of 1997, Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf was infamously quoted "any one who thinks this team can catch the Cleveland Indians is crazy." Given that the Sox were just 3.5 back of the division leaders from Ohio, with 7 weeks left in the season, it INFURIATED White Sox fans. And it should; they conceded their season with more than enough baseball left to be played. The Cleveland Indians started 30-15; they've been just 4-14 since. And it's very likely they'll get another beat down from the New York Yankees again tonight. The White Sox by contrast were 11-21, .344 pct. 11.5 games out, and the worst team in baseball...
White Sox Week That Was 6/6-6/12: Could we have done more?
2011-06-13 07:23:00 The mandate for the White Sox during a 7-game homestand week versus Seattle and Oakland was pretty clear: make hay...preferably lots of it. And whatever caution that Seattle's promising record might have elicited was burnt away when the Sox won match-ups versus Felix Hernandez and Michael Pineda. They won the two hardest games of the week, leaving them with a game versus someone you would never trade John Danks for, and four games against the reeling A's. A very long win streak was possible. So is it a disappointment that the Sox finished the week 5-2, with the two losses coming via late inning Sergio Santos breakdowns? Nah, between Lillibridge saving the day on Saturday night and Santos recording a save without the use of a slider on Sunday, the Sox could just as easily wound up 3-4. Cleveland's in free fall and Detroit is in neutral, so take this progress and run with it.
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 5, Athletics 4
2011-06-13 02:25:00 Humber win??...of course!! Dunn hits another home run Santos back with save...
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 3, Athletics 2
2011-06-12 15:53:00 Brent Lillibridge robs the Oakland's Coco Crisp of a home run in the eighth inning. (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune / June 11, 2011) Lillibridge with catch!! Jesse Crain comes in to close Danks wins second straight...
Chance to see Future White Sox Division Rivals in Action: Kane County Couga
2011-06-11 20:34:00 Baseball America ranks the Kansas City Royals minor league system as the best in all of baseball. All those consecutive years of losing have brought them some really high draft picks, and they've used those picks on some of the best blue chip prospects in Major League Baseball. There's been a change in the structure/hierarchy of the system last year; and as it stands the Low A affiliate is the KANE COUNTY COUGARS The Cougars are one of six minor league teams located in the Chicagoland area (the most of any metro area); they are the only one affiliated with a major league team. The other five: Joliet Slammers, Lake County Fielders, Gary Southshore Railcats, Schaumburg Flyers, and Windy...
White Sox in Haiku: White Sox 9, Athletics 4
2011-06-10 22:59:00 Adam Dunn makes his way through the White Sox's dugout after hitting a two-run home run during the third inning, his first homer since May 24. (Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / June 9, 2011) What? Dunn gets a hit? What? Dunn's hit is a home run? Now Oakland is Dunn!...
White Sox Draft Picks in Super Regionals
2011-06-10 20:15:00 The title says it all. The NCAA Tournament is in the Super Regional round this weekend and the first game (Mississippi State @ Florida) is currently on ESPN2. A number of White Sox draft picks will be in action and all of them will be on TV if you want to follow these prospects.
White Sox in Haiku: Mariners 7, White Sox 4
2011-06-09 19:52:00 Quentin's two home runs Not enough to save the Sox Lose game in extras...
White Sox Draft Strategy is an Interesting One
2011-06-09 19:00:00 With the 2011 MLB Draft now in the books, I want to take a look at what appears to be a very interesting draft strategy from our White Sox. |
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