Jul 7, 2024; Miami, Florida, USA; Miami Marlins third baseman Jake Burger (36) hits a three-run walk-off home run in the ninth inning against the Chicago White Sox at loanDepot Park. Mandatory Credit: Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports
What's up, Sox fans?
So what was the saddest part of this weekend's series in Miami? That Tim Anderson, the one-time face of the Chicago White Sox franchise, was nowhere to be found? Or that Jake Burger, the one-time feel-good story all White Sox fans could get behind, dealt the definitive blow against the team that traded him away?
It was a stunning fall for Anderson, who the Marlins DFA'd prior to the series even beginning, one that mirrors the rapidity at which the White Sox' own promising future fell apart.
Anderson just isn't the guy he once was, a batting champion whose have-fun attitude rallied fans around an on-the-come White Sox team. He was emblematic of baseball's fun revolution, ...
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