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Billionaire octogenarian apparently not embarrased to ask for $1B in taxpayer moneyAnother day, another billionaire casually asking the taxpayers of his city for a billion dollars so he can get even more money than he already has. ...

Is the Cubs hot start a mirage? Will the Astros remain under .500? Let's examineIt’s about 20 games into the MLB regular season. It’s a small sample size, but no longer so small that we can completely dismiss it. Just like every year, there are some teams that are over-performing and underperforming expectations, but which of these surprising records are actually telling the tr...

How much difference can it make to have a manager who is awake?How much tangible difference a manager makes on a baseball team over 162 games has never been quite nailed down. It’s generally thought the best ones might only add a couple wins, and a truly bad one might only take away a couple wins. Most are just there, which is kind of why front offices stopped ...

The warm glow of MLB Hot Stove’s warming glow: AL Central

We continue our whip around the baseball offseason by looking at the American League’s worst division, which was won by a team that wasn’t even trying to win, the AL Central....

The White Sox had better hope injuries don’t again haunt them all season

A sweep of the Detroit Tigers would have been the ideal way for the Chicago White Sox to begin the 2022 season, but sometimes the ball bounces off the wall, just over the right fielders’ glove for a game-winning hit. Hey, it’s a 162-game season, there’s going to be some head scratchers....

The White Sox are getting to their proper level of cantankerous

The term “White Sox” in baseball basically means anger. Or at least a heavy pinch of it to go with however else it might be defined. There is always an undercurrent of seething with the White Sox and their fans. It’s part of their identity. The White Sox are a symbol of their part of Chicago, the So...

Hear me out: Tony La Russa… Manager of the Year?

Tony La Russa could shockingly be A.L. Manager of the Year for playoff-bound White Sox...

La Russa is still managing like it’s 1989

The Yankees and White Sox combined for 26 strikeouts in a nine-inning game. In 2012, that’s not so surprising. What is a bit of a stunner is that Aroldis Chapman didn’t get any of those K’s. Carlos Rodón fanned 13, Jordan Montgomery punched out 11, and Michael Kopech added two whiffs out of the Chic...