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Riding high off a five-game winning streak and a recent of the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago White Sox are better than .500 for the first time in a long time and currently hold a Wild Card spot in the American League. Although we’re only halfway through the month of May, the good vibes are […]
Friday notes… Cubs lineup: White Sox lineup: Edward Cabrera, RHP vs. Sean Burke, RHP Edward Cabrera was going along pretty well this year, then he got hit hard by the Rangers last Saturday. Of concern as well: After allowing no home runs in his first four starts covering 22.2 innings, he’s now served up seven […]
2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45 Cubs 10, White Sox 5: Carson Kelly leads an offensive explosion Cubs vs. White Sox, Friday 5/15, 6:40 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox preview, Friday 5/15, 6:40 CT
My name is Di, and I’m a lifelong Cubs hater. It’s been 13 years since my Chicagoan status officially shifted from South Sider to North Sider. In that time, I’ve learned a lot about our mortal baseball enemies. Most South Siders within the city limits have suffered the unfortunate obligation of being a spectator for […]
1929 White Sox outfielder Art “The Great” Shires (Shires, by the way, gave himself that nickname) and manager Lena Blackburne got into a fistfight in the clubhouse over Shires choosing to wear a red felt hat during pregame warmups. Blackburne knocked Shires out cold. 1941 In a game in New York, White Sox pitcher Eddie Smith allowed a hit to Yankee great Joe […]
The White Sox are over .500 this late in the season for the first time since 2022. Thus, the Cubs should not underestimate them. They might not be a great team, but they are certainly improved over what they were the last couple of years. For more on the White Sox, here’s Chrystal O’Keefe, managing […]
Interleague play began in 1997, so 2026 will be the 30th season of MLB teams playing outside their own “league.” In reality, Major League Baseball became one league in 1999 when the positions of league president were eliminated and the umpiring crews were merged. The National League and American League still exist, of course, but […]
Seemingly for the entirety of the 2025 stretch run, the NFL was waiting for the wheels to fall off the Chicago Bears’ wagon. Instead of following the usual script, they rode it all the way to an NFC North title and an NFC Divisional Round appearance. That hasn’t stopped the pundits from predicting their downfall […]
Yeah, I know. Regular season series are only three games long and sometimes four but this is one where you have to take the previous three games into a little consideration once we eventually get into talking about these three games. That’s because the Braves were entering this series against the Chicago Cubs hot off […]
The Cubs might have looked worse in this series than they have in any series since the one at Cleveland in early April. There were series losses to the Pirates (cumulative score 12-10 Pirates advantage), the Dodgers (22-10) and Rangers (10-7) in the interim. So maybe that Dodgers one was worse than the Cleveland series […]
The Cubs are still having trouble scoring runs, as you likely saw in the team’s 2-0 win over the Braves Thursday evening in Atlanta. But with Ben Brown’s second straight excellent start and solid work from the bullpen, two runs was enough to win the game and end the Cubs’ four-game losing streak. The Cubs […]
Even in a down season, the Chicago Bears are a ratings winner, as their primetime games regularly score big for the NFL’s broadcast partners. So imagine how happy the League must be with the Bears coming off an 11-6 regular season, and being part of two of the most exciting postseason games of all time. […]
It’s Rivalry Weekend or whatever — 15 matchups that I guess link two teams that are supposed to be rivals together. Sometimes, this is inherently fun, like when the teams in question are basically co-located and it’s a battle-for-the-jurisdiction of sorts (Mets-Yankees, Cubs-White Sox, and I guess even Angels-Dodgers, sorta). Sometimes, it’s a bit weirder, […]
Rivalry Weekend begins tonight. Some of the matchups are obvious: you needn’t ask why the Cubs and White Sox have beef with each other (not Italian beef. Disliking each other, they would not likely share a meal of that delicious Chicago specialty). Some are not: Detroit and Toronto may be close to each other, but […]
Triple-A:Charlotte Knights (White Sox) 4 Norfolk Tides 1 Trey Gibson started and limited Charlotte to one run over four innings. After a brief stint in the Orioles bullpen, the organization limited Gibson to 65 pitches. He threw 41 strikes. The 23-year-old allowed four hits, three walks, and struck out five. Trace Bright piggybacked Gibson and […]
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Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Bill North, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, for example, in 1935 – Lou Gehrig steals home in a 4-0 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is his 15th and last steal of home, all of which were double steals, and other stories as well. Plus, since there […]
Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were silenced by the Nashville Sounds (Brewers), 6-5. Starter Doug Nikhazy struggled with control tonight, walking seven batters in just 3.1 innings. But he kept the Sounds to only two hits and two runs. He struck out four. Luis Peralta pitched the seventh inning, gave up an unearned run on […]
Yes indeed, get ready, because every sentence in this lede is going to sound more absurd than the last. The Chicago White Sox have defeated the Kansas City Royals, 6-2. They swept the Royals in a three-game series. The win has put the White Sox record at 22-21. It has also strengthened the White Sox’s […]
The Philadelphia 76ers could have fixed their glaring issue at the backup center position, but the Bulls prevented them from doing so.
With tonight’s 6-2 loss, the Royals were swept by the White Sox for the first time in three years. The Royals dominated the White Sox for the past couple of seasons, but that hasn’t been the case through the first seven games of 2026. The teams split their first series of the year, in Kansas […]
In the preview for tonight’s game, I mentioned that this game might come down to who could find the big hits in the latter stages of the game. The Braves have made a good living when it comes to either turning games around or finishing things off during the money innings (seventh, eighth and ninth), […]
The Chicago Bears have had a schedule for about an hour now, so let’s make some way-too-early predictions for the 2026 season! The WCG crew will kick off a schedule release roundtable in a couple of days, so I reserve the right to revise my quick take after more thought, but for now, I see […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Bears Over Beers! This week, join our hosts Ryan Droste and Bryan Orenchuk as they present their instant reaction podcast to the official release of the 2026 NFL schedule. We look at the Bears’ 2026 NFL schedule in full, including our way-too-early game by game season predictions, our favorite […]
Sorry everybody, but stepdad David is in charge tonight. You will not be getting a detailed preview. What I can promise you is a screengrab of the Statcast Game Preview, ice cream before dinner and no bedtime. Don’t tell your mom. Tonight it’s Anthony Kay on the mound for the White Sox, who hasn’t been […]