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Paul Sullivan: It’s a bizarro season in Chicago, where contending White Sox get booed and optimism grows for Cubs

CHICAGO — With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities. A contending Sox team is being booed on the South Side, where expectations have exceeded results and impatient fans have grown weary. “They have every right to be upset — at the team, management, whatever, they’ve got every right to ...
Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa paces in the dugout during the ninth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Guaranteed Rate Field on Aug. 26, 2022, in Chicago.

CHICAGO — With a little more than one month remaining in this bizarro baseball season in Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox have somehow managed to switch identities.

A contending Sox team is being booed on the South Side, where expectations have exceeded results and impatient fans have grown weary.

“They have every right to be upset — at the team, management, whatever, they’ve got every right to do it,” manager Tony La Russa said of the booing after Friday’s 7-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

La Russa added they also chanted “Let’s Go Sox,” which he considered an “amazing” display of

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