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Few Runs, No Wins!
Timely hitting has been absent, the runs aren't there and neither have the Sox victories! The slumping Sox are having troubles at the plate and as WSI's Hal Vickery notes, it is the vaunted middle of the order that is most culpable. Can Carlos Quentin bat clean up? How long before Ozzie tries it?

Bang for Your Buck?
Baseball has become a very big business, both in Chicago and every spring in Arizona, too. WSI's Pascal Marco notes how Sox Fans cope and can't help but notice what separates Chicago's winning fans from the other variety.

Good Enough for Now!
The division is wide-open and our Sox are in first-place! WSI's Hal Vickery isn't happy with everything he has seen this month, but he's seen plenty to make him happy so far. Chicago's proud of you!

Pitching Surprises!
The Sox show early promise, especially in the late innings! WSI's Hal Vickery returns and shares what many of his fellow Sox Fans are feeling, too. Who figured the pitching staff to surprise like this!

Where Credit is Due: '08 Sox
Mediocrity is served up in over-sized portions to Chicago sports fans, but one team's fan base perseveres like none other in what is too generously called America's Second City. Sox Fans go forward in 2008, stronger for the experience of where they've been and confident about the future, too... like any other champion. A call to arms from WSI's George Bova!

Sox Radio Redux
Was somebody listening when WSI's Hal Vickery complained about the quality of the first Sox radiocast of the 2008 season? We do more than our share of complaining at WSI but always for a good cause -- and what Sox Fan can argue that the upgrade of adding Steve Stone to the radio booth is a significant one? WSI's Hal Vickery is pleased with the change!

Thriller in Glendale?
In Tucson the Sox are back in town getting ready for opening day, but outside Phoenix the City of Glendale is getting ready to welcome the newest Chicago transplants! Glendale is thrilled to host the Sox and WSI's Pascal Marco has a local's perspective for freezing Sox Fans to warm themselves dreaming about!

Mid-Season Form: Sox radio style!
The first Sox games are back on the radio waves, but that doesn't mean anything has changed for the better since last summer. It's mid-season form reports WSI's Hal Vickery -- and that's not a good thing for Sox Fans!

Empty Sox Farm?
The Sox are back in camp, Joe Crede is swinging freely, and Ozzie's mouth is running flawlessly! WSI's Hal Vickery is as pleased as the next Sox Fan but wait! Trouble in the Sox farm system? Say it ain't so!

Broadcast News: Southside Style
Popular Hawk Harrelson is re-signed but WSI's Hal Vickery knows there is plenty more room for improvement in the Sox broadcast booth, including the one that got away. John Rooney? Guess again!

A Plea for Sox & Spring!
SoxFest is over, pitchers and catchers don't report for two weeks and the snow is getting deeper! Regardless of what has happened since last October WSI's Hal Vickery is sure all his fellow Sox Fans share this same sentiment: Let's play ball!

State of the Sox: 2008
SoxFest is over, pitchers and catchers report soon and the games begin to count in just ten weeks! It's time to begin an earnest evaluation of how the White Sox franchise is shaping up to compete in 2008. WSI's George Bova shares a uniquely biased viewpoint for totally biased Sox Fans!

Warming up for SoxFest!
It's damned cold and miserable outside but nothing quite helps turn the corner towards springtime and hope like SoxFest! WSI's Hal Vickery will be there with many other totally biased Sox Fans, too!

Goose to the Hall!
Rich Gossage was a rising baseball star on the South Side through the mid-70s. He went on to glory pitching in New York and other places besides Chicago where championship glory wasn't just a deferred dream. Now he has entered the hall of fame. Read what WSI's Mark Liptak remembers about Goose on the South Side, and a few others like Roland Hemond and Wilbur Wood, too!

Breathe Deep!
Across Chicago snow is flying and so, too, are the rumors and speculation! Trades may or may not be imminent, SoxFest is near, and all WSI's Hal Vickery has to say is "Breathe Deep! He's a Sox Fan for life!

Swisher? A Good Deal!
If the '08 Sox needed switch-hittiing speed and power at the top of the order, they don't any longer! Kenny Williams engineers the type of trade that Sox Fans who've lived in Chicago longer than the Tribune's Phil Rogers know too well is unusual: the Sox are trying to win now, not accepting prospects in trade for today's proven talent. Was that ex-Sox Goose Gossage wearing a Yankee hat in last Sunday's Trib? Phil Rogers ought to look up that trade before he has another disparaging word to say about the Swisher trade! WSI's Hal Vickery offers a SOX FAN'S perspective, a refreshing change for Chicagoans no doubt!

A Lousy 2007
If the Sox 2007 regular season was filled with disappointment, the subsequent off-season hasn't been too much better! It has been a lousy year to be a Sox Fan and WSI's Hal Vickery wonders how much hope can any of us muster for 2008? Well, there is always hope... at least until the first pitch, right?

Kenny Finished?
GM Kenny Williams has his eyes now set on a Cuban exile as the next target of his quest for off-season improvement of the Sox roster. After several failed attempts to reach pay dirt elsewhere should Sox Fans get very excited about his latest effort? WSI's Hal Vickery braces for disappointment!

Entitled Sox Fans?
If the Sox win a world championship, how many more Sox world championships will it take before a certain type of Sox Fan would be happy? WSI's Jim Laffer is left to wonder how wild some Sox Fans might become if the Sox struck out during a real baseball season when they're this wild now over a failed week at baseball's winter meetings.

Empty-handed
The search for missing pieces to the Sox' next championship roster continues with barely any progress at all from baseball's winter meetings. WSI's Hal Vickery is hardly in a panic but suggests another worthy cause for fretful Sox Fans to fill their time in a positive manner!

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