started at South Side Sox in 2018 after 20 years of writing on basketball, baseball and hockey, including time on the Blackhawks and White Sox beats. Follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and email your site feedback to brettballantini@yahoo.com
As a horrible loss on a terrible day concluded, news broke that the White Sox, of their own volition, re-signed an alleged spousal and child abuser, serial philanderer and domestic abandoner, and demonstrably horrific and selfish teammate.
That the White Sox could so callously disregard the well-being of well more than half of their fan base with this “baseball decision” and the utterly diseased thinking that has the team pining for such a base human is a tale to be told elsewhere, not on these pages.