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South Side Sox 26 mins ago
Sox Populi Pregame Podcast 9 — Opening Day 2024!

Sox Populi Pregame Podcast 9 — Opening Day 2024!

Brett Ballantini sits down with Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Malachi Hayes to address the 2024 season and swap favorite Opening Day stories Brett Ballantini invites Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Malachi Hayes to chat about what is looking to be a chilly Home Opener against the Tigers on Thursday: The upside and downside of Garrett Crochet, Opening Day starter Breaking down the relatively sunny season projections for the White Sox from FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus Why do the relatively similar Opening Day lineups in 2017 and 2024 feel so much worse this year? Zeroing in on...
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2 hours ago
Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2024 season

Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2024 season

Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com This year, I believe the Cubs will be playing October playoff baseball. Remember this? That was Joe Maddon in November 2014, at the freewheeling presser held to introduce him as Cubs manager. The Cubs had just come off three of the worst seasons in recent franchise memory, as Theo Epstein rebuilt the ballclub. They had lost 101, 96 and 89 games those three years and many felt it might still be a few more years until any sort of playoff contender would inhabit Wrigley Field. Watch that clip. Joe Maddon believed playoffs...
Windy City Gridiron 3 hours ago
Making Monsters: Talking free agency, salary cap, and the NFL Draft with Brad Speilberger

Making Monsters: Talking free agency, salary cap, and the NFL Draft with Brad Speilberger

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Taylor Doll talks with Brad Speilberger from Pro Football Focus about the Bears' offseason thus far, plus a look ahead to the draft and some future contracts. The Chicago Bears are done making significant free agent moves, so this is a perfect time to assess where the roster is at prior to the 2024 NFL Draft. On her latest Making Monsters, Taylor Doll is joined by Brad Speilberger from Pro Football Focus to talk about Chicago’s free agency, the NFL Draft, and where their salary cap currently stands. Besides being one of the more...
Bleed Cubbie Blue 3 hours ago
Cub Tracks’ C you later

Cub Tracks’ C you later

Photo by Chris Coduto/ #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought.  Opening Day 2024! WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. There’s a regular season game tonight. BCB’s preseason roundtable will be published at 10:30 a.m. CT, with some small changes to my starters’...
South Side Sox 4 hours ago
Chicago White Sox Food Preview 2024

Chicago White Sox Food Preview 2024

The brand new Campfire Milkshake was a wonderful treat! | Dante Jones/South Side Sox I had the opportunity to try some of the newest offerings at Guaranteed Rate Field! The Chicago White Sox invited the South Side Sox crew to Guaranteed Rate Field’s newly-redesigned Vizzy View Bar for a sampling of the team’s newest in stadium food offerings and a preview of some of the promotional giveaways coming up this season. Dante Jones/South Side Sox The newly redesigned Vizzy View Bar. I talked with Bret Donaldson, executive chef for Delaware...
Windy City Gridiron 5 hours ago
The Bear’s Den, March 28, 2023

The Bear’s Den, March 28, 2023

Chicago Bears HOF Superfan Don Waechter cheers during round two of the 2022 NFL Draft on April 28, 2022 in Las Vegas | Photo by Kevin Sabitus/ After winter league meetings, all eyes on Chicago’s draft board WE WANT YOU! Would you like to show your Chicago Bears spirit to the world? I’m starting a feature where Windy City Gridiron readers can share pictures of themselves and their families and friends in Bears attire. Simply email a picture to me at the following address: denmasterken at aol dot com. The pictures need to be clear, and full resolution (i.e. full size...
Bleed Cubbie Blue 11 hours ago
BCB After Dark: Take me out to the ballgame

BCB After Dark: Take me out to the ballgame

The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who will be the most critical player for the Cubs this year. It’s the end of another week here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It’s also the end of the winter. Tomorrow starts our busy season, so it’s good that you made it in ahead of the crowds. We’ve still got a few tables available. Let the hostess escort you to one. The season will start shortly. Bring your own beverage. BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or...
South Side Sox 15 hours ago
Visiting Dugout Podcast 39 — Detroit Tigers

Visiting Dugout Podcast 39 — Detroit Tigers

Chrystal chats with Walker Kelly about the first series of the 2024 season Welcome back, friends! The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and the White Sox are, well, attempting to play baseball this season. The White Sox will host the Tigers for the first series of the season, and again about 70 times. I kid, but it certainly feels that way. Walker Kelly, new to the pod, joined to chat about the Motor City Kitties, the opening series, and how the team might fare in a pitiful American League Central. What’s going on in Tiger land these days? Grading the offseason...
South Side Sox 16 hours ago
White Sox announce Opening Day roster

White Sox announce Opening Day roster

Opening Day is almost here! | mlb.com Sez Getz: “Anyone following the White Sox has a level of curiosity of what this team is capable of. We have some really interesting pieces and players playing for something significant in their careers.” Uh, sure ... The Chicago White Sox announced their 2024 Opening Day roster on Wednesday afternoon: Your 2024 #WhiteSox Opening Day roster! pic.twitter.com/zUjiRA2lCh— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 27, 2024 14 of the 26 players on the White Sox opening day roster will be making their White Sox debut.—...
Windy City Gridiron 20 hours ago
Breaking Down North Carolina’s Devontez Walker and Rice’s Luke McCaffrey

Breaking Down North Carolina’s Devontez Walker and Rice’s Luke McCaffrey

Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Greg Gabriel is looking at a couple of receivers that could be had later down the draft board. The 2024 NFL Draft is four weeks away, and the Chicago Bears still have several roster needs to fill for this season. With only four Draft picks at this time, all of these picks have to be used wisely. The first pick will be used on USC quarterback Caleb Williams. After that, the Bears' next selection in the first round will be the ninth overall pick, and that is where things will get interesting. The two most glaring needs are to...
Bleed Cubbie Blue 22 hours ago
Today in 1984 Cubs history: The Gary Matthews/Bob Dernier trade changed everything

Today in 1984 Cubs history: The Gary Matthews/Bob Dernier trade changed everything

The Cubs struggled through a painful spring training, and then Dallas Green made a deal that defined the 1984 team. The Cubs lost 91 games in 1983, two more than they had in 1982, the first year of “Building A New Tradition” under Tribune Co. and general manager Dallas Green. In fact, they had hovered around .500 as late as June 19, when they were 30-32, but went 41-59 the rest of the way, the worst record in the National League. That got manager Lee Elia fired. When spring training began in 1984, the Cubs had made just two significant player moves since the end of...
South Side Sox 23 hours ago
Our SSS White Sox predictions 2024: Turn and cough

Our SSS White Sox predictions 2024: Turn and cough

Now it’s time for the scary stuff, as 16 staffers take a stab at soothsaying how sucky the Sox should be Once more, as it will undoubtedly be the final time in my life to type these words, let’s make it plain that the lead author of this story is the Returning Champion, as we begin another year of South Side Sox predictions. At publication time roughly 24 hours before the White Sox season got underway, 16 of us at South Side Sox risked mockery and embarrassment to enter our thoughts on the horrors that await us in 2024. Well, await the White Sox, at least. But that’s...
Chicago Tribune Mar 27, 2024
Blueline express: Seth Jones and other Chicago Blackhawks defensemen on track for scoring highs

Blueline express: Seth Jones and other Chicago Blackhawks defensemen on track for scoring highs

Chicago Blackhawks defensemen steadily shifted to a shot-first mindset. In March, it’s really paying off.
South Side Sox Mar 27, 2024
Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination

Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination

Sixteen staffers take a stab at how the coming baseball season will play out, with L.A. or Atlanta likely to take it all It will undoubtedly be the final time in my life to type these words, so let’s make it plain that the lead author of this story is the Returning Champion, as we begin another year of South Side Sox predictions. At publication time roughly 24 hours before the White Sox season got underway, 16 of us at South Side Sox risked mockery and embarrassment to enter our thoughts on the horrors that await us in 2024. (We also recorded a podcast about all of our MLB...
Windy City Gridiron Mar 27, 2024
The Bears need some new history

The Bears need some new history

Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Kevin Warren plans to give draft prospects a Bears history lesson, so maybe he should leave out the last few decades. During the last few days, the Chicago Bears’ top brass met with the media at the Annual League Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Chairman George McCaskey, Team President Kevin Warren, General Manager Ryan Poles, and Head Coach Matt Eberflus each had a lot to say about the team, their offseason transactions, and the NFL Draft. Likely first overall pick, USC quarterback Caleb Williams, was discussed...

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