[Mitch Ransdell is away from the sketch pad this week, so we are re-running his art for Burger’s POTW win last June, with a guest essay to explain his week.]
Everyone loves Jake Burger.
At first, maybe it’s because he looked like a typical White Sox fan: Gregarious, optimistic, and a bit, er, “stocky.”
But after successive Achilles tears and struggling with plantar fasciitis after the Achilles had healed — oh, and then sprinkle in a pandemic that saw Burger’s only game competition for three years being a college league in Missouri — White Sox fans have fallen in love with the narrative of Jake Burger.