Brett Ballantini has written about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, South Side Hit Pen, Sox Populi, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and moved to the White Sox beat after that. Brett has run South Side Sox since 2018.
Do Spring Training losses really “not matter?”
I mean, of course, it’s pretend baseball, and the White Sox could go 1-32 in Cactus League play but still start the real season in a month blessed with an 0-0 record in a five-way tie for first place in the ALC.