Episodes

June 12, 2024

Thorpe, Julks & Stubborn White Sox Leadership

As alluded to on our last episode, the White Sox promoted straight from AA and started Drew Thorpe on Tuesday night. Corey Julks continues to lead off with Andrew Benintendi and Tommy Pham nearing a return. What will the White Sox do with their outfi...

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June 8, 2024

White Sox Prospects And Plans With James Fox

Our good friend James Fox of FutureSox returns to discuss if the White Sox are really going to trade away Luis Robert Jr and Garrett Crochet. What are the chances, and more importantly what should the team actually do? We also talk about the high-end...

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June 5, 2024

Betcha It Can't Get Any Worse For The White Sox

The White Sox are in the middle of a historically bad season, but Major League Baseball may be on the cusp of their next historically big scandal. Several players were suspended for gambling, including a former Sox farmhand. One player is banned for ...

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June 1, 2024

White Sox Must Shop While Selling

It is one thing to sell off players. The smart teams are shopping while selling. Duel injuries to Baltimore Orioles starters got us thinking about a trade, and what would be acceptable if a quality pitcher was shipped off to the East Coast. Meanwhile...

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May 29, 2024

The White Sox Are A Flat Circle

No matter how bad the team plays, the White Sox will always give you something absurd to talk about. After Pedro Grifol projected a lot of his own shortcomings on his players, a notable group of them pushed back. Now fans can choose to buy a PR push ...

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May 25, 2024

White Sox Memorial Day Job Interviews

At this point in the season, you are who you are. It's time for the White Sox to take a fresh look at the roster and hand out jobs to the most deserving players. Take a look at a solid lineup that can be created if you just conducted fresh job interv...

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May 22, 2024

White Sox Baseball: The Kids Should Play

What is more interesting to a White Sox fan? Would they rather watch Andrew Benintendi and Andrew Vaughn fail at the top of the order, or would they rather see what Korey Lee, Corey Julks, Dominic Fletcher and Nick Nastrini? The time is now to let th...

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May 18, 2024

The White Sox Shouldn't Sell

In the modern baseball era a tale has been told that teams must tear down, acquire prospects and fail for years. If they do this, they'll win a championship. We're here to say that system doesn't work as well as some think. Rather than consider movin...

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May 15, 2024

The (Stubborn) White Sox Way

Is it predestined that the White Sox will make the same old mistakes and cling to players that they traded for instead of letting young talent prove themselves in the majors? Or will Chris Getz change that aspect of the White Sox Way?  Brought to you...

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May 11, 2024

Give Ozzie Guillen The White Sox

Something snaps when looking at recent White Sox lineups and leads to a compelling case for giving Ozzie Guillen another go at managing on the south side. You read that sentence and think we're nuts, but you may not after we make a case for the retur...

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May 8, 2024

White Sox Trade Rumblings Already?

When your team is this bad, everyone starts looking at players they can pluck. Several names are already on the White Sox trading block. Do they all make sense for mid-season moves? What are we really going to get? We think the players being offered ...

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May 4, 2024

Dogpiling The New White Sox Announcer

Why is everyone in Chicago media turning on one of their own in John Schriffen? Maybe it is because he isn't one of their own. We'll explain why the Chicago Media Club is dogpiling on the new White Sox play-by-play man. We also have a few answered qu...

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May 1, 2024

Why Tommy Pham Matters To The White Sox

The late April addition of a journeyman pro sparked the White Sox over this past weekend. He may never help the White Sox make it to the postseason, but Tommy Pham matters to the development of a better team. Follow some logic that also points to how...

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April 27, 2024

Making Things Interesting for White Sox Fans

Would a radical idea for a new MLB draft help the White Sox or just give them another chance to prove their incompetence? Can the Sox Nerd even find anything interesting about this team? Some crazy stats and explaining why Pedro Grifol would have fre...

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April 24, 2024

The Fool, The Miser & The White Sox

Is Pedro Grifol the worst White Sox manager of your lifetime? He's checking all the boxes, even when he's being tossed from a game. Jerry Reinsdorf keeps trying his old tricks, but this time the billionaire doesn't seem to be crafty enough to even de...

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April 20, 2024

Looking For Hope In The White Sox Rotation

If you are looking for something to watch with hope, look no further than the rotation of the Chicago White Sox. Chris Flexen is out and two young pitchers with upside join a legit ace-in-the-making and a solid back-end veteran. Mike Clevinger may pu...

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April 17, 2024

The White Sox Are Weird

Former World Series champion A.J. Pierzynski is taking shots at the organization. Pedro Grifol is trying to put Gavin Sheets in the OF while his GM is signing Tommy Pham. Chris Getz is seemingly selling players for cash to sgather cash for free agent...

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April 13, 2024

A White Sox Land Of Opportunity

Oscar Colas may not be able to get an opportunity after the usual suspects went down with long-term injury, but that doesn't mean a few prospects with minor league track records can't get an extended look for the White Sox. We'll tell you why you sho...

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April 10, 2024

(Not So) Crazy White Sox Fixes

Flipping the White Sox roster into something competative is not that hard. It all depends on if Chris Getz sees what we see. Let us show you in "30 Minutes of Sox" that identifies the stories and players that still matter this season. We also think y...

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April 6, 2024

Can We Fast-Forward To A White Sox Future?

It may be bad now. Really bad. Like awfully gross terrible bad. But 2024 should see a lot of roster movement and talent arriving pretty soon. They're not going to save this mess, but they should bring hope of a not-so-distant future White Sox team. J...

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April 3, 2024

The Root Of All White Sox Issues

A slow start. A controversial addition. Questionable managerial choices. It is week one of a long season and we're looking at the root of issues surrounding your White Sox. Find out what is actually working so far, why Mike Clevinger made sense to Ch...

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March 30, 2024

Can Pedro Grifol Be Better At The Ballpark?

Let's talk baseball philosophy and strategy as the 2024 White Sox season gets underway. While most in-game decisions from managers have little impact over 162 games, we see a few things Pedro Grifol can start doing to help a team built on pitching an...

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March 27, 2024

Meet Your 2024 Chicago White Sox

The White Sox are as ready as they're going to be to start the 2024 campaign, and we're comparing Pedro Grifol's view of the most important hitters in a lineup with his actual projected lineup. Guess what? We've got questions! Let's dive into the 26-...

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March 23, 2024

Does White Sox Spring Training Really Matter?

The slow trickle of roster moves out of Sox camp and the guys still in camp vying for roster spots makes the guys wonder if there are actual surprises for the White Sox Braintrust or if things are going as they pre-ordained.  A struggling Dominic Fle...

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