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Yelling About Bobby Jenks’ Weight Is Like Yelling About The Brightness Of The Sun
sox35th.com - 11 hours ago
Yelling About Bobby Jenks’ Weight Is Like Yelling About The Brightness Of The Sun
— sox35th.com — Another injury, another offseason, another externally-fueled non-dispute over Bobby Jenks’ girth : ”Bobby is always going to have the problem that when he doesn’t perform, fans think he’s hurt or out of shape,” Guillen said Friday. ”Bobby has to stay in ... (more) Yelling About Bobby Jenks’ Weight Is Like Yelling About ...

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sox35th.com - 36 hours ago
Turkey, Potatoes and Second Helpings of a Masterfully Delivered Curveball
— sox35th.com — Comcast Sports Net will rebroadcast Mark Buehrle’s perfect game at 7pm CST Thanksgiving night. Set those DVRs, and try not to spit out your beaujolais when Hawkeroo actually loses it on the air. SPOILER ALERT: Josh Fields and Dewayne Wise’s careers both peak on the exact same day. [ ... (more) Turkey, Potatoes and Second Helpings of a Masterfully ...

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sox35th.com - 5 days ago
Weep Not For Gordon Beckham
— sox35th.com — As the hand-wringing and woe-is-the-whole-damn-system bemoaning continue in the wake of Gordon Beckham’s fifth-place finish in this year’s Rookie of the Year voting, this seems a fine time to ask a very simple yet very necessary question: Who cares? Okay, he could’ve ... (more) Weep Not For Gordon Beckham

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sox35th.com - 11 days ago
Pretty Good As Gold
— sox35th.com — Several years ago, at the height of Ron Santo’s Hall of Fame-related tantrum-throwing, I made the argument that Santo’s five Gold Gloves meant almost nothing due to their general irrelevance to true fielding ability and how more often than not they’re more reflective of a ... (more) Pretty Good As Gold

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Player of the Decade
sox35th.com - 15 days ago
Player of the Decade
— sox35th.com — [Editor's Note: With another decade of White Sox baseball in the books, The 35th Street Review takes a look back at the past ten years on the South Side of Chicago and finds highlights, lowlights, and a lot of in-betweenlights. In this edition, we look at the position player whose presence and ... (more) Player of the Decade

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sox35th.com - 16 days ago
Mark Teahen Is The Near Future Of White Sox Baseball
— sox35th.com — Mark Teahen is a pretty useful player for a contending team, but is not somebody to build around. He is a jack of all trades – but master of none. He can play four positions (1B, 3B, RF, LF) adequately while being slightly below average with the bat. His 2006 season (.290/.357/.517) ... (more) Mark Teahen Is The Near Future Of White Sox Baseball

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sox35th.com - 16 days ago
Yesterday’s Bust Prospect Is Today’s Bust Prospect
— sox35th.com — Chris Getz and Josh Fields: an assessment, and a glimmer of hope for the good people of Kansas City. [ Royally Speaking ] (more) Yesterday’s Bust Prospect Is Today’s Bust Prospect

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sox35th.com - 18 days ago
The One Where We Learn About Joe Girardi
— sox35th.com — Back-to-the-wall baseball games are always cool, and tonight’s Phils-Yanks Game Six might turn out to be stellar for one reason and one reason alone: if Andy Pettite can’t give six, maybe seven innings of run-preventing pitching, mark my words that the New York Yankees will ... (more) The One Where We Learn About Joe Girardi

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sox35th.com - 20 days ago
How to Fix the White Sox In One Fell Swoop
— sox35th.com — With the World Series pretty much over and either of a deplorable fanbase or deplorable team set to host a winterlong party, we can now all turn our attention to that more enjoyable and idiotic pursuit of Solving The Team’s Problems. Sure, the club is considerably worse off now than it ... (more) How to Fix the White Sox In One Fell Swoop

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sox35th.com - 25 days ago
The Hatred and Hilarity in Game One of the 2009 World Series
— sox35th.com — I. I love love LOVE when they show Nick Swisher’s numbers for the 2009 season, but I hold an extra-special fondness for the context Joe Buck et al either refuse to admit or simply would rather ignore. Example: Nick Swisher was second in the American League in walks with 91, which is a ... (more) The Hatred and Hilarity in Game One of the 2009 World Series

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sox35th.com - 28 days ago
That Was Then And This Is Not
— sox35th.com — Remember where you were that night ? Of course you do, as you should and as you, like me, probably always will. But as these calendar pages keep turning and we fans sit back wondering how far our favorite team has or has not fallen since those juggernaut days of 2005, more often than not I ... (more) That Was Then And This Is Not

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