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.
Welcome to another season of White Sox baseball, friends. I’m Brett Ballantini, and I’ll be your host today for Opening Day coverage. It’s my eighth season of White Sox openers here at South Side Sox, which believe it or not makes me the most-tenured editor in the 20-ish years this site’s been in existence.