Divination from the Comiskey Brick: Nearly-midseason predictions

My Comiskey Park brick.White Sox fans, did you shit a brick when you saw that All Star voting is already open for the 2023 season? It seems that only yesterday we were calling the division rival Minnesota Twins as early-prediction AL Central champs, and now we get to see how practical we all were.

The White Sox have proven to be less-than-stellar so far this season, and that’s putting it kindly. Many of the South Siders on the All-Star ballot don’t deserve the vote (sans Jake Burger, and that can be argued), and they barely looked like a major league team even during this weekend’s series sweep. (I turned off the volume on my TV for Saturday’s game and played Yakety Sax instead, as it was…