There's a lot of trade rumors and important development for next year's roster going on right now, but it goes without saying that when a veterinary student from a school that recently was ranked 24th out of 25 schools in student satisfaction offers to assign dog breeds to pitcher types, you have to run it.
You have to sit on it for a day, then run it.
Read MoreThe World Series has finally started, meaning we're somewhere around a week or so away from baseball going out to buy some smokes and disappearing for months. But that does at least mean it's finally hot stove season. And when your favorite team has been bad for two years running, hot stove season winds up being far more fun than it actually should be.
Read MoreOne of the earliest things you learn as a baseball fan growing up in Chicago is the power of narrative. Not so much for the White Sox, who seemed to appropriately blame bad seasons on either bad players or the team playing poorly. No, this was more of a Cubs thing. They were destined to fail because their storied past said so, never mind poor roster development or overpaying for underperforming.
Read MoreNot that any reasonable White Sox fan didn’t already know it, but the lovely four game sweep at the hand of the Minnesota Twins this past week should have made it obvious to everyone watching: the 2014 White Sox are not going to contend. Sure, it was fun to pretend that things were going well and we might sneak into that second Wild Card slot back in late May, but a .368 win percentage in June pulled the mask off a .500 May that saw the Sox outscored by 19 runs.
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