Sox Vox 5: The sweet sound of second place
Well, what a difference a week makes. After scraping last place briefly in Cleveland, the White Sox got very healthy in Kansas City and now sit in playoff position, in second place.
Lots of stuff to talk about here, a couple sips of Kool-Aid, and even a dog cameo! Dig into the latest edition of the South Side Hit Pen podcast, Sox Vox.
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Actor (final credit: murdered by Albert Einstein in "Carnage Hall"), musician (Ethnocentric Republicans), and Nerf hoops champion, Wiffleball aficionado and onetime bilingual kindergarten teacher, Brett Ballantini also writes about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey, for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and took over the White Sox beat after that. He currently is the editor-in-chief of South Side Hit Pen and beat writer for Inside the Rays. He also wrote a book about Ozzie Guillén but is running out of space, so follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and he'll probably tell you even more about himself than you ever wanted to know.
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