Entries associated with the tag "White Sox":

So it's looking like Steve Stone might move from the White Sox's radio booth to the TV. Steve Rhodes approves, but I suspect (and I'm hoping he'll post about it) my friend Ben will be disappointed.

I haven't been listening to the Sox on the radio much this year--I'm a Cardinals fan from early childhood, with an Ozzie Smith Starting Lineup figurine and signed baseball at my desk, and now that John Rooney is at KTRS it's just bliss (available through MLB Gameday Audio, which is the best deal in the whole world)--so I have to take him at his word. Ben, who is a dedicated Sox listener, calls the Steve Stone*/Ed Farmer duo "a graduate-level course in pitching" (Stone and Farmer are both former major league pitchers; both were All-Stars). He can and hopefully will tell you more, but it's worth checking out.

*Did You Know? "He was one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history, 3rd career-wise in wins (107) and strikeouts (1,065), behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, and 9th in games (320)." Also, a poet and a... competitive table-tennis player? Steve Stone is just awesome. 

If you've got time on your hands or miscellaneous mindless tasks in front of you, this recording from archive.org of a 1936 game between the Cubs and White Sox (part of the old "City Series") is intriguing listening, especially if you're a Strat-O-Matic type. Spring training can't come soon enough, frankly.

* Sasha Frere-Jones takes on Fall Out Boy in the New Yorker (best line: "Fall Out Boy is the main topic of Fall Out Boy songs.") and the age-old issue of authenticity.

* Speaking of authenticity, Chicago Review Press's Yuval Taylor is discussing his new book, Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music, at 57th Street Books on Tuesday; he and coauthor Hugh Barker have a fascinating blog on the subject.

* Coudal is experimenting with a snail-mail swapmeet.

* The NYT has a good overview of the current situation at Cabrini-Green and the delays in the exodus of its residents (h/t Gapers Block)

* Some great pics of Cabrini-Green, including a beautiful shot of Holy Family Lutheran Church

* Over at the Chicago Reporter, Angelica Herrera is blogging from Mexico about the immigrant journey from there to Chicago. 

* Deadspin had the good taste to solicit a White Sox preview from Claire Zulkey. 

* So that's where everyone was.