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Oh My God, It’s Happening: White Sox Sign Yasmani Grandal

Adam Hess November 21, 2019 0

There is no need to bury a lede here: The Chicago White Sox did the damn thing and signed Yasmani Grandal to a 4-year, $73-million deal. I don’t need to tell you this, but it’s obviously a monumental deal for the White Sox in so many ways, and we will get to them all. Quite […]

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Game #21: I Still Miss Teuvo – Hurricanes 4, Hawks 2

Adam Hess November 19, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick This game was extremely boring for about 53 minutes, then the Hawks made some shit happen but ultimately not enough. Carolina pretty much waxed the Hawks asses for most of the night but even that wasn’t all that interesting, so I just spent most of the time thinking about how […]

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Game #15 – Canucks 2, Hawks 5: I Don’t Know What I Believe

Adam Hess November 7, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Just one night after I commiserated with Sam, McClure, and Feather over just wanting to see the Hawks play competitive hockey, they delivered in spades. It wasn’t a straight up dominant performance, but that wasn’t what we were looking for. The Hawks finally looked like a team playing confidently and […]

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Game #10 – Kings 1, Hawks 5 – I’m Kermit With The Glass

Adam Hess October 27, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick After attending today’s Bears game, I had some minor apprehension about watching the Blackhawks tonight, especially upon the realization I had signed up for this wrap. Could I really handle that kind of emotional turmoil from my sports teams twice in one day? But then, Frenemy of the Program Aaron […]

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All The Boys In The Band Know How To Get Down – 2019 Sox Player Reviews: Dylan Cease

Adam Hess October 24, 2019 0

In some ways, the future success of this Sox rebuild could end up depending on just how good Dylan Cease ends up being. There are legitimate questions about his ceiling, and he probably is not going to end up being a true ace, but he could very well be a top of the rotation starter. […]

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Game #6 – Capitals 5, Hawks 3 – That Cloud That I’ve Been Stuck In

Adam Hess October 20, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick My biggest concern for the Hawks going into this season was that they might end up having a good forward group and good goaltending undone by a terrible blue line. Tonight, that was absolutely the case, with a little help from Braden Holtby playing well for the first time this […]

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All The Boys In The Band Know How To Get Down – 2019 Sox Player Reviews: Eloy Jimenez

Adam Hess October 16, 2019 0

We continue on our adventure through the White Sox’ exclusive group of players that will actually matter in the future, this time bringing us to Eloy Jimenez and his beautiful smile. Let’s just get to it because I am excited. 2019 Stats .267/.315/.513 Vs LHP .259 Vs RHP .270 6.0 BB% 26.6 K% 31 HR […]

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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19-’20 Blackhawks Player Previews – Dylan Strome

Adam Hess September 30, 2019 0

A couple of weeks ago I read a metaphor that was being applied to a certain quarterback of a certain local football team, but as I thought more about it, could also apply to Stan Bowman. Ol’ Stan is like golf – you can play up-and-down golf for 17 holes, constantly battling relief and frustration […]

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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19-’20 Blackhawks Player Previews – Andrew Shaw

Adam Hess September 27, 2019 0

I was not a huge fan of the Blackhawks moves over the offseason, but just about all of them were understandable. They brought in some defensemen, even if not great ones, because they clearly needed blue line help. They traded Artem Anisimov for Zach Smith because they both suck, but Smith was ever-so-slightly cheaper. They […]

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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19-’20 Blackhawks Player Previews – Patrick Kane

Adam Hess September 20, 2019 0

Patrick Kane is good at hockey. I am not really sure what more we should say about this guy. He’s been the best forward on this team for more than a decade and the best player for a few years, since Duncan Keith‘s mileage caught up to him. But you know all this. I’m not […]