don’t write many of these gamethreads/recaps any longer, so if I am on the byline you know the game must be one no one else wanted to take important. And, what ho, it sure is!
The White Sox, once proud enough to think that in 2021 their rebuild had pulled even with Houston’s tank-until-the-last-fan-is-murdered-then-improve-but-when-things-stagnate-revert-to-a-plastic-trash-can-to-cheat-your-way-to-an-LCS-streak-and-false-dynasty, now gets to see their Opening Day pushed to night and then invariably further delayed by some sort of Astros ceremony that will see uniquely gaudy Texan FREEDOM rings doled out to 1,500 players and employees who three decades from now will find their fourth fingers melted off by chemicals in the metal unknown to and untested by the FDA and EPA.