Sox Populi - A Chicago White Sox podcast

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March 09, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 88 — Meet Sam Reeves! — 2022-03-09
It’s a Meet the Players podcast, with our new guy, Sam Reeves! Read all about Sam in his Meet the Players piece on site right now, and learn a lot more than a mere post can provide with this podcast’s all-encompassing look at Sam’s fandom and take on the 2021-22 White Sox:
Growing up a contrarian up north, zagging against the grain and choosing White Sox over those other guys
Why did Sam only like James Baldwin starts when he was a kid ... a favorite starter preference he duplicated more recently with Carlos Rodón?
Sometimes, a no-hitter (an near-perfect game) can make you cry
Come with Sam, and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination ... when it comes to helmet sundaes
Sam’s writing plan for 2022 is summarized succinctly as “let’s see where this goes”
Retracing the 2021 White Sox, from the highest of highs, to running out of gas, with plenty of weird La Russa-ness in-between
You might say Sam was not pleased that the White Sox punted on Rodón’s QO
Hey, it’s a podcast in March 2022, so let’s finish up with some lockout talk

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March 08, 2022The debut of the Explain it To Me Like I’m 5 podcast: The baseball - 2022-03-08
Dr. Meredith Wills was born on a Major League Baseball Opening Day, but it was not a run-of-the-mill Opening Day: It was the day Henry Aaron tied Babe Ruth’s home run record. Her father, who grew up watching Aaron play, went out and bought his newborn daughter a baseball bat.
“He was absolutely convinced that I was going to be something in the game,” says Dr. Wills.
The elder Wills’ vision was prescient. Dr. Wills has been busy over the past several years researching and solving the mysteries within a seemingly simple but beloved object: the baseball. The impact of Dr. Wills’ research is changing the game of baseball and what we know about MLB operations.
Keelin Billue is hosting this new South Side Sox podcast called “Explain It Like I’m 5 (ELI5),” which is focused on simplifying complicated topics in baseball with the experts who understand the issues best.
Listen to or watch Episode 1: “The baseball: a semi-chaotic system” to learn about Dr. Wills and the following topics:
What do baseball, astrophysics, and knitting have in common?
What is the history behind dead and juiced balls?
Does MLB purposefully juice and/or deaden balls?
How did Dr. Wills find out the MLB used two different balls in 2021?
Why did MLB use two different balls in 2021?
What is the fallout from using juiced balls?
Learn more about Dr. Wills and the articles she mentioned in this episode:
Major League Baseball secretly used 2 different types of baseballs last season, Business Insider, Bradford William Davis and Dr. Meredith Willis (2021)
Did MLB Use Juiced Balls in 2020?, Sports Illustrated, Stephanie Apstein (2021)
“Yes, the baseball is different — again. An astrophysicist examines this year’s baseballs and breaks down the changes, The Athletic, Dr. Meredith Wills (2019 SABR Award-Winning article)
How one tiny change to the baseball may have led to both the home run surge and the rise in pitcher blisters, The Athletic, Dr. Meredith Wills (2018)

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1h 41min
March 02, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 87 - A Wake for MLB — 2022-03-01
Well, you’ve already read the sad story from Kristina Airdo and Brett Ballantini today, detailing the breakdown of labor talks between players and owners that now sees spring training further delayed and the first two series of the regular season cancelled.
Despite the threat of all-mourning, no actual content, Brett betrayed that for this podcast, with a cast of thousands. Here’s a sneak preview:
Chrystal O’Keefe’s prediction for the next MLB regular season game? May 2025
Does the fact that Jerry Reinsdorf takes such a hawkish stance toward labor embarrass us as Sox fans?
Good Vibes Jacki Krestel manages not to cuss — and has the sunniest outlook for next games, in late April
We couldn’t get Joe Resis to crack emotionally during the wake, but he is confident he won’t be trying to win #KnightsMath all summer
Joe, Tyrone Palmer and Tommy Barbee have seen this play out before, be it 2020 or 1994
Have the players, in trying to actually collectively bargain a new agreement, conceded too much already to eventually forge a solid deal?
Zach Hayes finally crosses over to the proletariat side and sees ownership dropping the lockout and resuming status quo within the month
Delia Ritchie casts a fascinating vision of Reinsdorf enduring A Christmas Carol treatment. Watch out for Bobcat Goldthwait, JR!
AI Ballantini is no handsomer than real-life Ballantini, software fail
Airdo can be heard catching up on sleep, somewhere, but no audible snoring

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February 26, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 86 — Meet Our New ... labor beat writer? — 2022-02-26
Hey, it’s one of them fun Meet the Players podcasts, during which you’ll get the inside scoop on Kristina Airdo’s White Sox fandom. But we’d be remiss if not discussing a breakneck week of labor talks, signifying oh so very little.
And who better to discuss those little goings-on than with our de facto labor writer, Kristina herself?
Born into one of those “Cubs families” that, if you’re lucky, you assumed was just an urban legend, Kristina escaped that sorry fate. Thanks, grandpa, and thanks, uncle!
The delicious dilemma of getting out of school early ... to see a White Sox game
Most memorable games, for both Kristina and Brett: World Series Game 1, and one of the Blackout Games
Sure, Brett hasn’t seen Kristina’s favorite baseball movie, and pays dearly for it
An overview of where labor talks stand, now just a couple of days from officially scrapping the March 31 Opening Day
Can we provide any insight as to the utter lack of urgency shown by ownership in these offseason talks?
When will we see first games? At the moment, the hope is May 1, the stark reality is late June, and the utter pipe-dream, please-play-on-my-birthday wish is March 4
Is the notion that labor dischord “kills the game” a bit overwrought?
Follow Kristina’s White Sox observations on Twitter @Liddle_Ktina, and if you’re lucky, you may catch her on a weather nerd day

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1h 2min
February 21, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 85 — PECOTA projections — 2022-02-21
Publishing alongside this podcast is Zach Hayes’ 4,000-word take on PECOTA and the 2022 White Sox — and no, it is not a misprint, our favorite projectors tab the South Siders for 94 wins! What ho!
Such a sunny outlook requires explanation, no?
Nine seasons PECOTA has pegged the White Sox for fewer wins, eight seasons it predicted more. Overall since 2005, it’s undersold the White Sox by an average of 2 1⁄2 wins per year — but man, when it misses, boy howdy
Quick WARP (Baseball Prospectus WAR) definitions from Zach, including how it differs from Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs WAR, and how to translate the relatively stingy WARP takes for 2022
Yasmani Grandal, SUPERSTAR
Why the growth/continued excellence of Liam Hendriks and Aaron Bummer may render $16 million Craig Kimbrel moot
In the face of a lukewarm projection for José Abreu, let’s chat on Pito’s Hall of Fame case instead
Yes, it is a pivotal year for Luis Robert, and not because we’re reverting back to the roh-bear pronunciation, people
Is Lucas Giolito our disappearing ace?
Yoán Moncada enjoys a bullish projection, but where is his newfound power going to come from?
The dark skies hovering over Andrew Vaughn and Garrett Crochet
The almost impossibly-bright take on No. 3-4 starters Dylan Cease and Michael Kopech
There’s an elephant in the room, and his name is Rodón — yes, PECOTA’s strong projection for Los makes the White Sox blowing off the QO pre-lockout look even sorrier
Consider supporting the fine work of Baseball Prospectus with a subscription. They’re on the White Sox train now!

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1h 1min
February 17, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 84 — This year’s White Sox Hall of Fame winners...and SSS enters lockout mediation — 2022-02-17
Today we’ve announced the winners in the fifth annual White Sox Hall of Fame vote, and Adrian Serrano, Zach Hayes and Joe Resis joined up with Brett Ballantini to talk about the results, and more:
Five players made it to SSS immortality, including players with the second- and third-highest election percentages ever
Next year’s favorites
How did the two remaining players in Cooperstown who’ve yet to crack our White Sox HOF end up?
Which player ended up dropping off of the ballot in 2023?
The player race wasn’t too close, in that there were no borderline players in 2022. How about the bonus categories, where at least two races were decided by as few as two votes?
A frank discussion of helmet nachos
A check-in on the glacial pace of baseball labor talks
Who should represent the SSS staff if we’re called on to help broker labor peace? (see below)

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40min
February 10, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 83 — Checking in on the White Sox Hall of Fame...and the Lockout — 2022-02-10
The fifth annual White Sox Hall of Fame vote, is ongoing, with still time to determine some of the plaques and choose winners in the bonus categories. Voting ends on Sunday, so don’t dilly-dally like a certain Indianapolis Field Office stalwart.
Adrian Serrano, Chrystal O’Keefe and Joe Resis join Brett Ballantini to evaluate the early election returns, and squeeze in a little bitta lockout talk:
Five players are on target for election, with one clearly the most surprising
Is Wilbur Wood going to enter our Hall with the biggest plurality yet?
Who’s the unlucky Cooperstown resident who is still not close to White Sox Hall of Fame election?
A quick look at the three-way race to see who remains on the ballot in 2023
Also a peek at the four closest “bonus category” races, and a different idea for the alternate Sunday uniforms
With one offer to the MLBPA over the first 70 days of the lockout, is ownership serious about striving for a full season?
Four picks for a revised Opening Day 2022

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40min
February 04, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 82 — White Sox Hall of Fame Ballot, Lockout Update — 2022-02-04
Hey, it’s time for the White Sox Hall of Fame vote, year five!
Adrian Serrano, Chrystal O’Keefe and Zach Hayes join Brett Ballantini to dissect the ballot, plus much, much more:
Four Hall-of-Famers on the ballot ... not yet voted into our White Sox Hall of Fame, whoa
Adrian’s fanboy picks
Chrystal’s unapologetic support of Chris Sale
Perusing the bonus categories, including a no-brainer defense pick and the impossible home run choices ... and Adrian even adds a homer to the mix
Chrystal steps us through the early look at 2022 White Sox promotions, with her faves and bobblehead predictions
Hey, the lockout is on, and, what new, owners are out for blood
Zach gets brassy for Major League ... but has a new pet flick pick for 2023

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42min
January 26, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 81 — 2022 Hall of Fame Results, New Signings, and Movie Talk — 2022-01-26
With the results of both our South Side Sox Hall of Fame results and the BBWAA election of David Ortiz, we’re wrapping up all our Hall talk with this podcast, featuring the Indianapolis Field Office of Chrystal O’Keefe and Joe Resis, with moderator-trying-not-to-erupt-in-expletives Brett Ballantini:
The pros and cons of Ortiz in on the first ballot
The hypocrisy of Ortiz in on the first ballot, vis-a-vis at least Barry Bonds
Bye-bye Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Curt Schilling
Mark Buehrle survives ... but so does Torii Hunter
A rollout of our new vote this week, Best Baseball Movies, released concurrent with this podcast: Favorites, sleeper picks, least favorites
White Sox news: Welcome, Oscar Colás and Erick Hernández! How soon can you make it to the South Side?

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42min
January 20, 2022South Side Sox Podcast 80 — 2022 Hall of Fame Voting — 2022-01-20
So, with our South Side Sox ballot released on Monday, it’s time to talk about the many worthy Hall of Fame candidates who will fall short of election when our results are announced on January 24. Podcast stalwarts Adrian Serrano and Zach Hayes join Brett Ballantini for the roundtable:
Changes in the SSS voting process allows for more than 10 votes per ballot, and provides instant updates on where each candidate stands. Has that changed the overall voting patterns of our readers?
By Wednesday night’s recording, just four of 30 candidates had reached even 50% support — perhaps just two you’d expect. Do PEDs still loom over this group?
Most overrated names on the ballot, relative to their support: David Ortiz and ... Scott Rolen
Most underrated: Tim Hudson, Bobby Abreu, Torii Hunter
What do Billy Wagner and Devin Hester have in common?
With a dreary incoming class of candidates in 2023, will we just be talking about mostly the same group of underachieving candidates a year from now?

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41min

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