For about 2½ hours Monday, something resembling Chicago White Sox baseball was streaming from Guaranteed Rate Field, and if you had time for the intrasquad game, it was a revelation.
You didn’t realize — or allow yourself to admit — how much you wanted and needed it until you were actually watching it, and then it was hypnotic.
NBC Sports Chicago’s socially distant Jason Benetti and Chuck Garfein, on opposite sides of their broadcast booth, didn’t so much call the action as have a lengthy conversation around what Benetti called a “footwear fight” (as in Sox versus Sox).