Sox In The Basement

The GM Meetings may be more like the Winter Meetings with a lockout looming, and what Chris Getz does this month will tell you a lot about any commitment to winning in 2027. Get a free agent pitcher, and the owner gave him a legit budget. Focus on trades only, and Jerry Reinsdorf isn't spending until the labor dispute is over. 

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

Will there be a lot of movement in November before the expected lockout, or will things run slow with so many unknowns? We talk about another starting pitcher linked to the White Sox before a former union president and a lawyer get candid about what it will really take to get through MLB's labor dispute.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

When a free agent target gets a qualifying offer, should that take him off the table for this version of the White Sox? Where is this team and when do you push some chips into the center of the table?

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

With the World Series complete, the off-season schedule is set. Let's take a look at White Sox arbitration decisions and what Chris Getz has to accomplish before billionaires and millionaires shut everything down in a labor dispute on December 1st. Plus, The Sox Nerd goes into the wayback machine with a little known series between the White Sox and Cubs over 100 years ago.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

State Senator Bill Cunningham sits as the point person when it comes to stadium-related legislation and sits on the committee that approves appointments to the Illinois Sports Facility Authority which owns Rate Field. He gives us straight answers on the White Sox lease ending in 2029 and anything can be done to entice the team to stay in Bridgeport. Coming out of this conversation, though, it seems clear the White Sox are likely moving to the south loop, Amtrak is likely moving to Bridgeport and one is not dependent on the other. 

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

You survived three seasons with over 100 losses and now your team is a contender again. Time for some upgrades around the ballpark. Hear why we think a refresher course in hospitality may be needed at The Rate for the larger crowds expected whenever baseball returns. Plus, our only asks for the next White Sox TV Play-By-Pay Announcer. The Sox Nerd also talks about Sam Antonacci's incredible first season.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

The beauty of a White Sox podcast is that we get to talk about this team year round. So, let's start with the base of this offseason. Colson Montgomery and Munetaka Murakami are two 3-true-outcome lefthanded bats. Can you have two of those in your lineup? Does Montgomery actually have 3 outcomes? Plus, we compare this roster with the Brewers, finding the only thing missing and your main target this offseason.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

Chris Getz has identified outfield help and starting pitching as main tagerts this offseason, and to do that right will cost money. Will owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who expressed his love for fans following the series win over Houston, put his money where his mouth is and support the young GM after a successful season? While Reinsdorf has been cheap in past seasons, history also points to what opens the pocketbook. Those circumstances may be back (hopefully) on the South Side.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

It may not have ended the way we wanted, but the White Sox still had an amazing season in 2026. We break it all down from our brand new studios, looking at the lessons Will Venable, Chris Getz and this group of players must learn. Plus, we look at what went right, the core of this team moving forward and additions that are absolute musts in "30 Minutes of Sox!"

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at the new Spoke & Vine Studios at 95th & Kedzie on the South Side and discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

The White Sox lose two at home and a win-or-go-home Game 5 awaits on Saturday. After Cleveland adjusted to Will Venable's strategy, will he react to what got his team beat or stay the course? A young team that has accomplished more than expected may be running out of gas, or they could be ready to shock the baseball world again on the road.

Video version on YouTube! Brought to you by Hayat Home Medical Equipment. Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at a basement bar on the South Side of Chicago to discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!