Chicago White Sox 2017 first-round draft pick Jake Burger talks with the media in the dugout before a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
The Chicago White Sox, the Second City’s second team, watched the Cubs methodically plod while tanking and filling up. And in 2015, the once-woebegone Cubs indeed made the playoffs — while the next year was the “next year” they waited ’til, as the Cubs won the championship.
Now the White Sox, in town this week to play the Cardinals, are going through a Wrigley-like rebuild of their own.