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 ...
by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
Aug 27, 2022
4 minutes
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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