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Sox Populi Podcast 165 — The Soxivus celebration begins ... Why are you still a White Sox fan? — 2023-12-04 from 2023-12-04T08:50:29
Welcome to Year 3 of the South Side Sox Soxivus Celebration! We kick off the festivities by looking within, to discover what it is about this team that holds our fandom. (Our companion piece to thi...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 164 - Thanksgiving, for every wrong move — 2023-11-23 from 2023-11-23T07:51:29
On the occasion of the holiday, and perhaps before everything is buried in football and turkey and drunken political arguments, Sox Pop 164 assembled with Joe Resis, Brian O’Neill, Melissa Sage-Bol...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 163 — Reviewing our 2023 predictions! — 2023-11-21 from 2023-11-21T19:23:46
With all the season’s-end awards issued, Sox Pop 163 assembled with Joe Resis, Brian O’Neill, Chrystal O’Keefe, Ryiin, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Brett Ballantini to review the good and bad of the...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 121 — Free agency is here! — 2023-11-09 from 2023-11-09T07:48:43
The experts are out with their predictions of what free agents will end up where for how much and how long, so the resident non-experts, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast corre...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 161 — Goodbye, Tim. Goodbye, Liam — 2023-11-06 from 2023-11-06T21:13:31
On the occasion of having to say goodbye to franchise leaders and stalwarts Tim Anderson and Liam Hendriks, Sox Pop 162 assembled with Joe Resis, Dante Jones, Chrystal O’Keefe and Brett Ballantini....
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 120 — World Series-usness — 2023-10-27 from 2023-10-27T06:35:06
It’s World Series time, and SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, just naturally talk World Series on the day before it begins, and just as naturally disagree ...
ListenDISH Deluxe 6 — The worst year in White Sox history — 2023-10-25 from 2023-10-25T07:37:32
As brusquely noted at the top of the podcast, it only took about 500 of these to find Brett Ballantini finally falling in as the junior in a multi-guest program, as site historian Mark Liptak and d...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 119 — Playoffs and options — 2023-10-19 from 2023-10-19T06:19:12
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, manage to first avoid talking about the White Sox by venturing into playoff land and the many odd things that have happen...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 161 — That’s All, Folks! — 2023-10-02 from 2023-10-02T18:39:18
Brett Ballantini, unsure what he is doing hosting a podcast for a 101-loss team, is joined by Joe Resis, Dante Jones and Brian O’Neill, none of them certain why they are sitting around talking abou...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 160 — The march to 100 losses — 2023-09-29 from 2023-09-29T18:34:17
Brett Ballantini, unsure what he is doing hosting a podcast for a 98-loss team, is joined by Ryiin, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Malachi Hayes, none of them certain why they are sitting around talki...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 38 — San Diego Padres — 2023-09-29 from 2023-09-29T17:40:13
Friends, we’ve made it. This cursed season of White Sox baseball has come to an end. A lot of people wisely checked out early into the season; others, let's call them the masochists, stayed through...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 118 — The nightmare is almost over! — 2023-09-25 from 2023-09-25T20:22
With just six games to go in the White Sox quest to reach 100 losses, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, look into the question of the ages — does winning o...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 37 — Boston Red Sox — 2023-09-22 from 2023-09-22T17:59:22
Friends — baseball is almost over, at least for these two teams. The Red Sox will likely finish last in 2023, worse than .500 at the time of this recording. The White Sox sit in fourth place, just ...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 117 — Just two weeks to go! — 2023-09-16 from 2023-09-16T20:25:58
Will the White Sox make it to 100 losses? SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, ponder the odds of making the magic number, as the Sox press onward toward the ...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 159 — The Eternal Darkness of the Chicago White Sox — 2023-09-08 from 2023-09-08T05:21:55
Brett Ballantini and Brian O’Neill sat down with to discuss, just a few days since our last podcast together, what’s changed with the abominable 2023 Chicago White Sox. While not much really has, ...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 36 — Detroit Tigers — 2023-09-07 from 2023-09-07T07:55:43
The White Sox barely avoided a sweep from the Royals in time to head over to Detroit to face the third-place Tigers. Brandon Day of Bless You Boys joins the show to chat about all things Tigers and...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 116 — What you see is what you Getz — 2023-09-02 from 2023-09-02T20:02
Ah, the Chris Getz era of Sharing Sox begins, as SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, wade into the swamp that is the mind of Jerry Reinsdorf and the resultan...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 158 — You cannot take my fandom away — 2023-08-31 from 2023-08-31T19:30:14
Joe Resis, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Jacki Krestel, Malachi Hayes, Ryiin and Brian O’Neill sat down with Brett Ballantini to reassess our fandom in light of the pending decision to elevate Chris Get...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 35 — Dollars 4 Dingers — 2023-08-31 from 2023-08-31T05:25:19
The White Sox are about to face the Tigers and Royals. Blah blah blah. Instead of talking about this team, and some other bad baseball teams in the American League Central, I decided to go in a dif...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 115 — Kenny and Rick are Gone, Gone, Gone!!!! — 2023-08-26 from 2023-08-26T18:45:26
Rumor has it that while the White Sox have been blah on the field lately, events off the field have been pretty exciting. Thus SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, ...
ListenDISH Deluxe 4 — Field of Dreams Game, second anniversary — 2023-08-12 from 2023-08-12T11:00
Don’t ask us how they got out there among the hoi-est of polloi — actually, Brett did ask! — but Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and her husband and partner-in-ballpark-travels, Shaun, take us through the ...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 34 — Milwaukee Brewers — 2023-08-11 from 2023-08-11T18:57:26
After a dramatic weekend and an embarrassing week, the White Sox are hopefully looking ahead to this weekend's series after taking two straight sets. Ideally, the dirty secrets are over and maybe t...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 114 — That was the week that was — 2023-08-10 from 2023-08-10T06:24:37
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, manage to take a moment off from this week’s White Sox weirdness to agree wholeheartedly with an article in Th...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 33 — New York Yankees — 2023-08-07 from 2023-08-07T06:53:32
In this episode, two bitter baseball fans chat about their below-average teams. That’s right, we’re talking about the White Sox and Yankees! I also had a headache while recording, so things get a l...
ListenDugout Metrics Podcast 9 — A deep dive into the 2023 draft — 2023-08-04 from 2023-08-04T09:01:58
In an unprecedented burst of activity, the often elusive Dugout Metrics podcast goes back-to-back episodes, this time tapping Luke Smailes and his article series on the 2023 collegiate picks for th...
ListenDugout Metrics Podcast 8 — Trade deadline review — 2023-08-03 from 2023-08-03T07:41:40
After almost two years away, Dugout Metrics is back, and bolstered by a new teammate, pitcher/analyst Malachi Hayes, who sits down with Trevor Lines and Brett Ballantini to review Rick Hahn’s Big T...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 114 — The trade deadline passeth — 2023-08-02 from 2023-08-02T09:01:09
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, took time out from warming up in case the White Sox need them to fill out the bullpen to talk about the heavy ...
ListenDISH Deluxe 3 — The 1977 White Sox — 2023-07-31 from 2023-07-31T08:12:03
Not all of our DISH Deluxe history podcasts will be about a single date in White Sox history — in fact, quite often they won’t be. This episode is our first such podcast. The 1977 club was selected...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 113 — The trade deadline beckons — 2023-07-22 from 2023-07-31T07:33:22
With PECOTA now giving the White Sox just a 1% chance of winning the hapless AAAL Central, with a predicted 72.6 wins (that last six-tenths of a win is always the hardest), SSS duty geezer Leigh Al...
ListenDISH Deluxe 2 — Mark Buehrle’s perfect game — 2023-07-23 from 2023-07-31T07:31:23
Where were you 13 years ago today? Almost undoubtedly, you were either glued in front of the television from the first inning forward, or at least got to a screen after Hawk implored all White Sox ...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 156 — Another Cubs loss, and then a trade surprise! — 2023-07-27 from 2023-07-27T09:20:01
Little did we know when we began our latest “livestream” (to @SouthSideSox on Twitter, Sox Populi on YouTube and South Side Sox on Facebook) that we’d be mourning more than just another lost White ...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 155 — Crosstown mixed marriages, Vol. 1 — 2023-07-24 from 2023-07-24T08:51:09
Past Crosstown podcasts have mostly just consisted of getting together and trashing the Cubs. Not that there isn’t plenty of garbage to talk about on the north side, but buried almost 20 games sout...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 31 — Minnesota Twins — 2023-07-21 from 2023-07-21T07:38:23
With less than half of the season left, the American League Central could be up for grabs at this point, if any team gets hot. (Except for you, Kansas City. Sorry.) The Twins and Guardians have sta...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 30 — New York Mets — 2023-07-18 from 2023-07-18T10:25:24
Before I make the trip to watch my National League team host my American League team, I talked to Tim Ryder of The Apple and Simply Amazin’ about the lukewarm Mets. There isn’t a whole lot to be im...
ListenA new Sox Populi podcast! The DISH Deluxe — 2023-07-17 from 2023-07-17T16:49:05
While our plans for daily history podcasts are pushed back to the offseason, we are still set to unveil a new podcast at Sox Populi, the DISH Deluxe. Every couple of weeks, we’ll sit down and addre...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 154/Live Podcast 3 — Post-draft, and the next day of the rest of our White Sox lives — 2023-07-14 from 2023-07-15T19:55:10
Our latest “livestream” (to @SouthSideSox on Twitter, Sox Populi on YouTube and South Side Sox on Facebook and, natch, here on the “home page”) featured a review of the 2023 draft and look ahead to...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 29 — Atlanta Braves — 2023-07-14 from 2023-07-14T17:27:11
The All-Star Break is over and we’re back to the unfortunate reality — the White Sox still have the second half of the season to play. The trade deadline is looming, no one seems to know who is pit...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 112 — All-Star break and All-Team broken — 2023-07-13 from 2023-07-14T01:25:11
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, consider first how incredibly dysfunctional an organization has to be to send an entrant to the Home Run Derby without re...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 153/Live Podcast 2 — White Sox select ... Jacob González — 2023-07-09 from 2023-07-10T06:19:22
For the first round of the 2023 MLB draft, we opted for another “livestream” (to @SouthSideSox on Twitter, Sox Populi on YouTube and South Side Sox on Facebook and, natch, here on the “home page”)....
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 28 — St. Louis Cardinals — 2023-07-07 from 2023-07-07T16:59:24
There is something about those Central teams, both National and American League, that are just not good. Maybe because most teams sit in the Midwest that makes them “mid” as the kids say, but among...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 152 — We go live! — 2023-07-04 from 2023-07-04T17:58:11
Yes, it’s our debut “livestream” (to @SouthSideSox on Twitter, Sox Populi on YouTube and South Side Sox on Facebook), featuring Malachi Hayes, Tommy Barbee, Joe Resis and Brett Ballantini. In addit...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 27 — Toronto Blue Jays — 2023-07-04 from 2023-07-04T08:02:16
Coming off of an embarrassing series loss that was nearly a sweep by the worst team in the league, the White Sox return home to start fresh. The Blue Jays have a winning percentage of .529 in the h...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 151 — Any room for hope? — 2023-07-01 from 2023-07-01T08:06:23
The power trio of Malachi Hayes, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Brian O’Neil weather smoke, technical difficulties and the encroaching sunset with Brett Ballantini to talk about where the White Sox st...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 111 — Undefeated in the second half! — 2023-06-30 from 2023-07-01T00:00
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, get to rejoice this week in the fact the White Sox are only 11 games worse than .500 and heading to Oakland. Then they ta...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 26 — Oakland Athletics — 2023-06-30 from 2023-06-30T07:35:21
The White Sox sit in 24th place out of 30. And what team do they play next? The team in last place, coming in at No. 30, the Oakland Athletics. The novelty of the Moneyball tactic is long gone, dep...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 110 — Further down the tubes we go — 2023-06-24 from 2023-06-24T09:01:19
As we head toward the decision time of the trade deadline, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, ask the musical question, “Is there anything at any level that...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 25 — Boston Red Sox — 2023-06-23 from 2023-06-23T18:07
The White Sox look to make up for the abysmal Rangers series by hosting the Red Sox this weekend. Boston might be sitting in last place in the American League East, but that doesn’t mean they’re no...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 150 — No historical precedent — 2023-06-22 from 2023-06-23T01:35:25
Mark Liptak sat down with Brett Ballantini to talk about where the White Sox stand, how little will change in the near term, and whether there is a historical precedent for the 2023 team. Coming s...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 24 — Texas Rangers — 2023-06-19 from 2023-06-19T15:06:51
The White Sox lost the series in Seattle and are heading home to host the first-place Rangers. We’ll see some familiar faces, like Marcus Semien and Dane Dunning, who will likely have the South Sid...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 23 — Seattle Mariners — 2023-06-16 from 2023-06-16T20:04:26
The White Sox continue their West Coast road trip to Seattle, taking on the Mariners. Seattle is in a tough division, ranking fourth despite hovering around .500. Both teams seem to have turned a c...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 149 — Brett defends Rick Hahn — 2023-06-13 from 2023-06-13T19:06:50
Chrystal O’Keefe and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, frankly a little bored and finding so little to do South Side Sox-wise lately, chat it up with Brett Ballantini about where the White Sox stand and wha...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 22 — Los Angeles Dodgers — 2023-06-13 from 2023-06-13T05:46:54
The White Sox lost the Marlins series with two of three of the more embarrassing losses of the last few years. Now Chicago is off to Los Angeles to start a West Coast road trip, starting with the D...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 109 — Nice week for the Sox — 2023-06-10 from 2023-06-10T21:59:34
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, enjoy the week that was, relishing winning five out of six, including two out of three from the Yankees, while, being Whi...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 21 — Miami Marlins — 2023-06-09 from 2023-06-09T17:25:48
The White Sox bounce out of the New York haze for a homestand against the Marlins. Both teams are struggling a bit, but one is in second place at the time of the recording, and the other is fourth ...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 20 — New York Yankees — 2023-06-06 from 2023-06-06T07:52:14
The White Sox learned from their previous Tigers series by sweeping Detroit this past weekend. The Yankees are also winning, and sit well better than .500. What will this series look like? Emily Ny...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 108 — We’re back! Whoopee! — 2023-06-02 from 2023-06-03T20:57:16
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan is back from spending May on the other side of the Atlantic. So he and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, delve into all the things that have happened with the ...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 19 — Detroit Tigers — 2023-06-02 from 2023-06-02T07:53:09
Just days ago the White Sox were humiliated by the Tigers after losing three of four. In this episode, Rogelio Castillo from Motor City Metrics and Tigers Minor League Report (and so much more) sha...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 17 — Detroit Tigers — 2023-05-25 from 2023-05-25T08:59:03
Fresh off of a much-needed series win in Cleveland, the White Sox head to Detroit to take on the second-place Tigers. In this episode, Chris Brown from Motor City Metrics and Tigers Minor League Re...
ListenSox Pop on the Farm Podcast 45 — Do the White Sox know what they’re doing? (minors edition) — 2023-05-24 from 2023-05-24T23:15:11
Given that the White Sox have again been exposed for a significant lack of upper-minors depth, Darren Black answers a number of questions from Brett Ballantini that center on the organization’s phi...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 16 — Cleveland Guardians — 2023-05-22 from 2023-05-22T08:02:16
The White Sox travel to Cleveland to face the Guardians for the two teams’ second series matchup of the season. The last round was good for the Pale Hose, winning a rare series, but they also didn’...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 146 — Race to the Bottom — 2023-05-17 from 2023-05-17T09:56:31
Tommy Barbee, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Dante Jones, Chrystal O’Keefe and Brett Ballantini took the lead of a recently-stoked Race to the Bottom series and took it a few measures farther: Impressio...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 14 — Cleveland Guardians — 2023-05-16 from 2023-05-16T09:23:27
The White Sox will be hosting the Guardians for their first meeting of the season. The Guardians are sitting just three games back from first, recently reclaiming second place from the Tigers. Jeff...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 13 — Houston Astros — 2023-05-11 from 2023-05-12T02:31:56
The Astros are coming to town, and it will be José Abreu’s first trip to his old stomping grounds. The White Sox will play a tribute video for Abreu, and I imagine it will be a mixed bag of boos, c...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 11 — Cincinnati Reds — 2023-05-05 from 2023-05-05T07:25:41
The White Sox are fresh off a series win, the first of the season, against the Twins. With better vibes, the team heads to Cincinnati to face off against the Reds. Chrystal sits down with Wick Terr...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 107 — We won a game! We won a game! — 2023-05-02 from 2023-05-02T08:51
Elated by the White Sox actually ending their 10-game losing streak, even if the win was largely thanks to a pitching gift from Rays manager Kevin Cash, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and ...
ListenSox Populi Podcast 144 — Overthrowing Jerry — 2023-04-29 from 2023-04-29T10:15:43
Malachi Hayes, Chrystal O’Keefe, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Adrian Serrano and Brett Ballantini took on the daunting task of immediately improving the White Sox by taking over the team on Friday nigh...
ListenVisiting Dugout Episode 5 — Baltimore Orioles — 2023-04-13 from 2023-04-14T01:20:38
Can you believe the White Sox are heading to their fifth series already? Time flies when you’re not having fun. I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to Dream from FTNBets about the super-fun Bal...
ListenSox Pop on the Farm Podcast 42 — Mostly Lenyn, Lane and new-look Charlotte! — 2023-04-12 from 2023-04-12T12:07:16
As a sort of test podcast and video feed, we switched over to a new format for the Sox Populi family of programs, to considerable success in spite of Darren Black losing his camera for a sec and Br...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 105 — Eloy, Hoo Boy — 2023-04-06 from 2023-04-06T07:10:37
SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and current downtown Chicago correspondent, Will, were just settling in for their first podcast of the regular season when the White Sox announced that Eloy ...
ListenSouth Side Sox Podcast 132 — Grieving Pito — 2022-11-29 from 2022-11-29T09:05:27
Chrystal O’Keefe hosts Allie Wesel, Brian O’Neill, Dante Jones, Jordan Hass, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and Tommy Barbee for a little group therapy session. Yes, the South Side Sox staff eulogized Jos...
ListenSharing Sox Podcast 16 - Tender is the Night - 2020-12-02 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sox get shared three ways this time, with returning guest fan Eric Loughlin joining SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his and west cost correspondent, Will, as they pretend to know what they’re talki...
ListenSouth Side Sox Podcast 12 - Surplus Values and Minor League Contraction - 2020-11-30 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Colleen Sullivan hops back on the podcast and pays only cursory attention to the Houston Trashcans and New York Mets, as we discuss Brett’s recent series of surplus value articles, and more: Colle...
ListenNorth Side Sox 4 - Are you going to finish that? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Because we reluctantly participate in a capitalist society, what’s more traditionally post-Thanksgiving than a Black Friday sale? In this Small Business Saturday episode of North Side Sox, we aband...
ListenSharing Sox 15 - Happy Thanksgiving! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Sharing Sox 15, SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and SSS west coast correspondent, Will, once again pretend to know what they’re talking about, as they look at the latest White Sox coachi...
ListenSSS Podcast 11 - Looking Ahead to the Hot Stove - 2020-11-23 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cole College Kohawks left fielder and South Side Sox writer Luke Smailes hops on for his SSS podcast debut, determined to spend only about 10% of the program talking Tony La Russa. It seems that go...
ListenKiller B's 2 - Hall-of-Famer Baseball Person - 2020-11-20 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Episode 2 of the Killer B’s podcast, Tommy Barbee and Keelin Billue are back. It’s only been 22 days since Tony La Russa was hired, but that’s a little more than 154 days in dog time. The Killer...
ListenSharing Sox 14 - How About Theo for Manager? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sharing Sox was recorded on Tuesday this week, just before the 2021 ZiPS projections came out, so there’s zip about ZiPS. But SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan, his son and West Coast correspondent Will,...
ListenNorth Side Sox 3 - It Can't Get Any Worse, Right? - 2020-11-14 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this third (second at South Side Sox) installment of North Side Sox, Janice and Sam continue to unpack (yes, again) the issues surrounding the Tony La Russa hire, following up on Jeff Passan’s r...
ListenNorth Side Sox 2 - Tony La Russa, and Halloween - 2020-10-31 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On a very spooky episode of North Side Sox, Janice and Sam break down the questionable White Sox managerial hire made this week. They discuss the super spreader event *cough cough* I mean World Ser...
ListenSSS Podcast 10 - The La Russa Fallout - 2020-11-10 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Colleen Sullivan and Brett Ballantini discuss the aftermath of Tony La Russa's DUI arrest and the ramifications for the White Sox. The pair focus on the unforced error of the hiring (pre- and post-...
ListenSharing Sox 12: “There’s an Election?” Edition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son, Will, again pretend to know what they’re talking about as they delve into the world of La Russadom, free agency, player options, awards and a sad...
ListenNorth Side Sox 1 - Tony La Russa, and Halloween - 2020-10-31 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On a very spooky episode of North Side Sox, Janice and Sam break down the questionable White Sox managerial hire made this week. They discuss the super spreader event *cough cough* I mean World Ser...
ListenSharing Sox 11 — Emergency Tony La Russa Hiring Podcast - 2020-10-29 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son, Will, join pretty much the entire White Sox world in expressing a trifle bit of dismay about a recent hiring decision you may have heard about to...
ListenSharing Sox 10 - Justin Turner Cannot Be Quarantined - 2020-10-29 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and California correspondent, Will, once again pretend to know what they’re talking about as they get into Justin Turner, Kevin Cash, Rob Manfred,...
ListenSharing Sox 9 - World Series and manager talk - 2020-10-21 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Once again, South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and West Coast correspondent Will pretend to know what they’re talking about when it comes to White Sox baseball. This week, it’s the ...
ListenSSS Podcast 9 - Early offseason thoughts with Scott Reichard and Brett Ballantini - 2020-10-19 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott Reichard hops on the South Side Sox podcast to talk about the highlights of 2020, and what the White Sox need to do — in the manager's chair and with the roster — to get deeper into the posts...
ListenSharing Sox 8 - The Managerial Search from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
South Side Sox duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son, Will, move to South Side Sox for the first time with the their chat about matters White Soxian. They’ll be popping up and popping off on most Wed...
ListenSSS Podcast 8 - Brad Balukjian - The Wax Pack (2020-03-20) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brad Balukjian decided what the hell, I'm gonna open a pack of baseball cards from the first year I collected (1986), then track those players down to catch up with their lives, more than three dec...
ListenSSS Podcast 7 - Trevor Lines - Zack Burdi and under-the-radar storylines (2020-03-17) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brett Ballantini welcomes SSS FanPoster and SSHP writer Trevor Lines, to discuss his recent writings. Topics include Zack Burdi's arm adjustment, Kelvin Herrera's chance of an improved season, the ...
ListenSSS Podcast 6 - Coronavirus, and looking forward (2020-03-12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brett Ballantini discusses the postponement of spring training due to coronavirus concerns, as well as what a "regular" season might look like if and when play resumes — including how PECOTA projec...
ListenSSS Podcast 5 - Tom Borowski - White Sox art (2020-03-10) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brett Ballantini and artist Tom Borowski get together to talk White Sox art, including Tom's fun scavenger hunts for White Sox prints at SoxFest and spring training. Learn about Tom's influences (a...
ListenSSS Podcast 4 - Sean Williams - Cactus League (2020-03-09) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sean Williams of South Side Hit Pen hops on with Brett Ballantini to talk Cactus League. Williams has been the eyes and ears for us down in Phoenix, and we discuss Yermín Mercedes and the battle fo...
ListenSSS Podcast 3 - Ashley Sanders - Yoán Moncada extension, Tim Anderson YouTube (2020-03-05) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brett Ballantini talks with South Side Hit Pen engagement editor and South Side Sox writer Ashley Sanders about the Yoán Moncada extension, future White Sox extensions and the various other White S...
ListenSSS Podcast 2 - Darren Black - Astros scandal and early Cactus play (2020-03-01) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Darren Black's recent writings on the Astros scandal took several players to task, as well as drilled deep into the paralyzing effects that Houston's cheating had on opponents. Black also is a lead...
ListenSSS Podcast 1 - Janice Scurio - SoxFest 2020 (2020-01-28) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Janice Scurio chats with Brett Ballantini about SoxFest 2020, from the sights, sounds and smells to some of the principal players she tracked down and chatted with. Also: were there gift shop steal...
ListenSSS Podcast 1 - Janice Scurio - SoxFest 2020 (2020-01-28) from 2020-01-27T01:00
Janice Scurio chats with Brett Ballantini about SoxFest 2020, from the sights, sounds and smells to some of the principal players she tracked down and chatted with. Also: were there gift shop steal...
ListenSSS Podcast 1 - Janice Scurio - SoxFest 2020 (2020-01-28) from 2020-01-27T01:00
Janice Scurio chats with Brett Ballantini about SoxFest 2020, from the sights, sounds and smells to some of the principal players she tracked down and chatted with. Also: were there gift shop steal...
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