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So an ex-Cub (Kyle Schwarber) won the All-Star Game, and three ex-White Sox pitchers (Chris Sale, Garrett Crochet and Carlos Rodon) were in uniformed attendance. Pete Crow-Armstrong got a double off Rodon, while Miguel Vargas, Andrew Benintendi and Luis Robert Jr. sat somewhere (not in the American League dugout) probably watching the game on TV.
Such is life in Chicago baseball.
Now we step into the back end. One team backing in, the other trying to stay in front in one of the tightest divisional races in the majors. One wishing they were the other, the other wishing for ceaselessness, continuousness and lastingness.