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With pitchers and catchers reporting this week and games underway at the end of next, it seems time to cinch it up and hunker down to discuss the prospects of the 2025 White Sox. Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Chrystal O'Keefe, Hannah LaMotta, Joe Resis and Brett Ballantini gather to discuss the club as constituted, trying at the dawn of the season to skew optimistically: Things to be excited about? Yes, truly: Pitching depth, hungry and healthy players, Noah Schultz continuing the "tradition" of White Sox power lefties, a better offense Several great thematic ideas for a second or third printing of the White Sox pocket schedule An aside that frames the 2024 White Sox as a team not just a handful of games worse than a replacement team, but perhaps a full dozen The relief of having Will Venable running the club vs. Pedro Grifol (or Tony La Russa), and the challenges that await him (Of course) win predictions on the season, ranging from 42 to 59 Oh, and happy birthday to Billy OK and homeday to Willow OK! Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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With a week until pitchers and catchers report to start the old ball rolling again, duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, delve into some of the predictions made for the White Sox for 2025, in the process getting a good laugh at the computers that think the team will lose 100 or fewer games ... so much for artificial intelligence. The two do their best to find places where the Sox have improved this time around, other than getting a manager with a basic understanding of the sport, but find it difficult to come up with much unless Luis Robert Jr. remembers he’s supposed to be good in odd-numbered years. Well, that and bidding good-bye to Martín Maldonado. Still, the season will be fresh and new, and hope springs eternal and all that. Great thought, unless your hope springs so eternal you actually put money down on it. You’re welcome to point out all the places where we’re wrong. Or the computers are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Sox Populi Podcast 184 — SoxFest Review — 2025-01-29 1:05:16
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Sox Populi and South Side Sox had two writers attending the reimagined SoxFest this past weekend, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach for both days, and Kristina Airdo lucky enough to cover the better day, kickoff night on Friday. Both sat with Brett Ballantini to discuss the pluses and minuses of the event: First, the pluses, including a terrific leadoff night on Friday. Kristina took that in from the media space , while Melissa and family was there in full fan mode — including an appearance on stage with son Sage! How the intimacy of the event (or, cynically, the "selective audience" the White Sox attract nowadays) made everything more satisfying Could the White Sox have hoped for SoxFest 2025 to go any better? Flops from the weekend, including a very disorganized Saturday night Melissa's tips on what to do and when, including the unbelievable intimacy of the re-envisioned After Party Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, ring in the new year (OK, a few days late) with a podcast dedicated to how they believe the White Sox will suddenly break through this season and become a major league team again, sweeping all before them en route to a season of 90, 100, 110 wins, or even more!! Now, that’s a lie, but they do manage to mostly avoid talking about how bad the 2025 Sox will be by talking about other teams, terrific players who happen to ply their trade elsewhere, free agents who are heading for distant parts, the future of the AL Central, and the amazing Traject Arc pitching machine, before wallowing into the unfortunate likelihood Jerry Reinsdorf will outlive everybody who has been born to date. Then it’s on to Luis Robert Jr. — how likely is it he can somehow regain past glories after his dismal 2024, and that some other team will then provide the Sox with a lot of talented prospects while he gets to go play with an outfit that actually wants to win baseball games and has a reasonable chance of doing so? Finally, there’s the magical question, “Don’t you ever think with a brain?” which seems reasonable under the circumstances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Sox Populi Podcast 183 — Good Riddance to 2024 — 2024-12-31 1:02:49
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For one last time in Our Year of the Utterly Hapless 2024, our staff gathered for a mothership podcast. This time around it was Brett Ballantini hosting Chrystal O'Keefe, Joe Resis and Dante Jones. The program runs broad but obvious: Looking back at the horrors of 2024 and ahead to what may be different in 2025. The lowest moments of 2024 Highlights (?!?) of 2024 Just how bad was the White Sox offense? Finally, Brett provides the answer: third-worst in MLB history, sixth-worst in the record-keeping at Baseball-Reference What we're looking forward to in 2025: Will Venable, tall and dominant lefties like Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith, young starters like Drew Thorpe and Nick Nastrini, and the killer kiddie catching corps of Edgar Quero and Ryan Teel Loss predictions for 2025: Brett is sticking with 120, but both Joe and Chrystal see it slightly sunnier, at 109 Sorry, ladies, Joe Resis is taken! Congrats on the engagement, SoxMath champ! Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Sox Populi Podcast 182 — Reviewing our 2024 predictions — 2024-12-05 1:28:25
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We made our season predictions for the fourth consecutive year over at South Side Sox, and for the fourth consecutive year, a different writer took the crown. And this year, in fact, the crown is worn by two prognosticators — the veteran Year of the Hamster, and newcomer Enrique Silva. We have a comprehensive rundown of the twists and turns of our 2024 predictions over at SSS, but here are some highlights of the podcast that Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Joe Resis and I did addressing them (and, I suppose, the moribund White Sox postseason and future): If not for the Dodgers, a lot of us would have been in trouble This trio all did well all told, with Joe finishing fourth of 18, Brett fifth, Melissa seventh Each of us review our favorite and oddball picks A look back at how remarkably non-dour the majority of our writers were about the White Sox season, silly people Our second half addresses some of the offseason, including the new manager, dead market, and hopes (?) for the season To end on a good note, we look ahead to the 20th anniversary of 2005 and our favorite non-obvious moments of that year Have a look at the podcast at our the Sox Populi YouTube channel (and don’t be a flake — subscribe!) and/or listen on Megaphone below. Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Before crashing into White Sox matters, duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, indulge in postseason palaver — especially happy on Will’s part because he got to take part (very small part, but part nonetheless) in the team that won it all. So, much of the discussion is about the complete — and very happy — collapse of the Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series. Yea, verily, that inning showed that even the White Sox are occasionally better than teams much better than they doth occasionally perform. (Will had a sort of defense of Yankee ineptitude, in that coaches always tell teams never to give an opponent four outs but never say anything much about giving them six.) On White Sox matters, the big news is of course the hiring of Will Venable to be the latest to try to convert sows’ ears into Bottega Venetas with the materials he’s being handed to manage. The duo are amenable to giving Venable a big opportunity to show he can get the Sox to play like major leaguers are supposed to play, and just hope he’ll get them to quit playing stupidly even if they don’t play well. On other fronts, there wasn’t much to say about the the Sox not picking up the option on Yoán Moncada, which was inevitable, though a sad reflection on hopes of the last many years ... and a lot to say about whether to tender Andrew Vaughn, what would seem to be an easy decision being hampered by the big question of who else the Sox have to play first, the answer to which you probably already sadly know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Soon after the story broke of Jerry Reinsdorf possibly selling the White Sox, thereby sending waves of glee throughout Chicagoland, duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, try to figure out if Reinsdorf had the information leaked in order to try put pressure on politicians to plunge public billions into a monument to himself, or if he just had it leaked (to somebody on The Athletic who has no Chicago ties) because he hates the news media and wants to see them make fools of themselves believing it. Whatever the cause, it would be hard to believe under any circumstances. But that a potential buyer group is headed by Tony La Russa best bud Dave Stewart, who just happens to want to bring pro teams to Nashville, which Reinsdorf likes to toss into conversations about leaving Chicago, makes it worthy of an SNL skit. And would Reinsdorf consider selling without making sure every possible bidder gets a shot? Nonsense. Naytheless, fun to talk about. Too bad we can’t put a poll at the end of this to see how many people believe the ploy. As for actual playing of baseball, the duo delve into the playoffs with predictions, but mostly with kudos to ex-White Sox pitchers who are doing so well. That naturally leads to a serious discussion on how unscary Carlos Rodón looks without any beard (per Yankee rules) and whether Michael Kopech’s new beard looks like he should do an off-season road tour with ZZ Top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The long road to ignominy is over for the White Sox, but the long road to parsing the reasons for their total failure lives on. Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, examine the recent national media analyses and yell a hearty, “Amen, brothers!” The two agree it would have been handier if the big shots had torn into Jerry Reinsdorf and how he runs his mess of an organization a little earlier, preferably several decades earlier, but better late than never and all that. They tear Reinsdorf apart from every conceivable direction, and rightfully so — much fun, but to any avail? They then venture into The Athletic’s take on another team, how the Kansas City Royals brilliantly and abruptly turned things around from 106 losses to the playoffs and raise the question of whether that’s possible for the White Sox. (Hint: The answer is a big “Noooooooo” — see Reinsdorf articles above.) Then there is a jolly venture into the future, one of barely competent holdover players, possible trades of Luis Robert Jr. and Garrett Crochet, many solid pitching prospects, and basically nobody to play behind the pitchers. All leading up to guesses at how many games the White Sox will lose next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Friends, we've made it to the final series of this abysmal and historically-bad season. I feel like Winona Ryder at the end of the 1989 classic "Heathers" if you can picture that. The White Sox started the season against the Tigers, and Walker came on to chat about the Tigers. It's only fitting that the White Sox end the season the same way, and I finish off the second season of Visiting Dugout with Walker back in the hot seat. Oh, and Garrett Crochet opening the series. Here is what we talked about: What's new with the Tigers? This has been a terrible season Staying alive, maybe? Jason Benetti's first season in Detroit Pitching matchups Will we see Skubal? Threats, keys to win, and fears The White Sox's lack of offense Infield musical chairs Cy Young predictions Playoff runs and World Series picks You can follow Walker on Twitter and over at Football Absurdity . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Sox Populi Podcast 181 — 120! — 2024-09-23 1:15:48
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On the occasion of the White Sox matching the 1962 New York Mets — yes, an expansion team — at 120 losses, the most since 1899, Brett Ballantini and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach got together to assess our club, past, present and future. Reaction to the impossible happening: 120 losses. A shock, or long-anticipated? A rundown of the other milestones ahead: farthest out of first (56 1/2 games), worst team outright since 1899 (1916 Philadelphia A's), top five-worst MLB team outright (dating back to 1876) ... sigh Training the lens again on GM Chris Getz, who managed to put together a howlingly awful offense, which will become the only negative-WAR hitting or pitching group in 125 years of White Sox baseball Considering Getz will be given no money to spend in the offseason, looking ahead to how different things might be in 2025 (not very much!) How this utter abomination of a season affects our fandom Have a look at the podcast at our the Sox Populi YouTube channel (and don’t be a flake — subscribe !) and/or listen on Megaphone below. Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, naturally venture onto the subject of an article in The Athletic titled “The Owner Who Thinks He Knows Everything” (guess who), but first Will has a report on attending the White Sox game in Anaheim on Wednesday night (Loss 116). The report? How little the Sox even warm up on the field before a game compared to other teams. How unconcerned the players in the dugout seemed during the 5-0 loss (Will was four rows behind them). How awful Luis Robert Jr. looks at the plate, even against an Angels pitcher who led the American League in earned runs surrendered this season. How the Sox even made errors in trying to be fan-friendly, when both Miguel Vargas and Nicky Lopez tried to toss Will a ball after an inning and threw to an Angels fan instead. And as for the long article in The Athletic, it was a nice consolidation of things most White Sox fans already knew, like what a jerk Jerry Reinsdorf is, what a tightwad he remains in important spending categories, how backward his ideas about baseball are, how his personnel decisions guarantee a terrible team, etc., etc., etc. But the lede in the article was new to both of us — the plane. Seems that while 29 major league teams charter planes with enough first class-type seats for all the players and staff, Reinsdorf has the White Sox fly on a dated aircraft with a total of six first class seats, and the rest coach. Coach! For sometimes very large people whose physical condition is worth millions of dollars to you. Sure, you don’t like to fly coach but you do, and we don’t like doing it either but we do, but that’s not the same — witness the 29 teams who put out a little extra money to potentially save tens of millions in player performance. But that’s Reinsdorf. And those are the White Sox, who grind on toward officially having the most losses in history. And who already weren’t going to have any good free agents or respected management people join the team until Reinsdorf is gone unless they overpaid by at least 100%. But now that word spread about the plane, it may be 200%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Ladies' Night Podcast 8 — Our beloved, and despised — 2024-09-18 1:07:11
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In the eighth episode of the Ladies' Night podcast, Hannah LaMotta, Delia Ritchie, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, and Allie Wesel discussed several topics related to our beloved — or despised, depending on the day — South Siders. Whether you're a die-hard White Sox fan or not, there's something for everyone. So, sit back, relax, and grab your favorite beverage because the girls hit a home run conversing about all things baseball, including: Reactions regarding Jeff Passan's Tuesday morning ESPN article discussing the clubhouse culture during a historically bad season Thoughts on 2025 and how the White Sox front office will use the 20th anniversary of the 2005 World Series to distract fans from the fact that the actual baseball being played isn't getting better anytime soon Opinions about whether or not the team will break the 1962 Mets modern-era record for losses Have a look at the Sox Populi YouTube channel (and don’t be a flake — subscribe to the channel! ) and/or listen on Megaphone below. Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts by clicking this Patreon link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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1 Visiting Dugout Episode 70 — Boston Red Sox — 2024-09-06 1:12:12
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Ed Hand joins to chat about the Red Sox and their upcoming series with the White Sox. The episode quickly runs off the rails but in the best way, and turns into some dudes just naming players. Kidding! Sort of. Here is what we discussed: Grady Sizemore getting angry What's new in Boston? Proposing to Pete Alonso Liam Hendriks and Lucas Giolito Ice cold offense How to secure a Wild Card spot Do we like the Orioles? The skater boy of our dreams: Nicky Lopez Pitching matchups Don't let Andrew Benintendi get hot Threats, keys to win, and fears The next White Sox manager A lot of old friends Baseball masochism The Chicago Dogs and MiLB Is it Chris Sale's Cy Young year? Robots, Disney princes, and other baseball players World Series contenders You can follow the delightful Ed Hand on Twitter and listen to Pod By The River and To The Show We Go . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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