Column: Sunny forecast for the Chicago White Sox after years of gloom and doom

By admin — In News — October 6, 2026

   ​Wednesday afternoon’s forecast at Rate Field is sunny with a high probability of lunacy.The Chicago White Sox are back on the South Side for the first time since the end of the regular season, hoping to clinch a postseason series at home for the first time since beating the Cubs in the 1906 World Series.The Sodfather was busy grooming the field Tuesday afternoon, and the MLB postseason logo was painted near the dugouts. Some players worked out in their “Celibate for Sean” T-shirts for Sean Burke, while others threw around footballs, kicked soccer balls or just shagged batting practice flies in the sunshine.It was a wonderful afternoon, and even outfielder Tommy Pham was in a good mood, or at least a better mood than he was on Monday night when he berated a Sun-Times reporter after manager Will Venable’s news conference and insisted the reporter would be “blackballed” in the Sox clubhouse.But more on that later.The Sox are a tight-knit bunch and, as Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said last week, more like a college team than a professional baseball team. They wore the “Celibate for Sean” shirts after Anthony Kay spouted the slogan for the Sox starter, the only member of the regular-season rotation who is still in the same basic role in the postseason.Burke told Sox beat reporter James Fegan in Houston, “I don’t have family, no girl, no kids,” and he hasn’t heard the end of it since.“I think they just took it and ran with it,” Burke said of the T-shirts. “They understand the quote kind of got cut off. It was originally ‘no family of my own,’ or that was the intention behind it. It’s cool, everybody thinks it’s funny and it’s kind of got the guys together.”Davis Martin was wearing one of the shirts, which were made by the Foul Territory podcast. Are they actually living up to the shirt’s slogan?“I haven’t talked to my wife about it yet,” Martin said. “We’ll figure it out. This is a team, right. We’re basically a bunch of friends that form a baseball team. I know people joke that we’re very college-like, but we have fun with each other and enjoy messing with each other, and if something goes viral, we don’t shy away from it.”While Burke and Braden Montgomery received the most media attention for their starring roles in the Game 2 win on Monday in Cleveland, it was Pham who got the most social media attention for posting that Sun-Times reporter Jeff Agrest, who was covering the series, was a “real loser” and a “click bait reporter” who misconstrued his conversation with commissioner Rob Manfred.Pham spoke to the media in front of his locker Tuesday in the role of clubhouse veteran, while Agrest stood several feet away from the pack. Pham talked about his fantasy football team and said he told Manfred about a clip that interspersed the video of him pimping a would-be home run in Game 1 with Wesley Snipes doing likewise in the movie, “Major League.”“We got a real laugh out of it as a   

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