Hawk Harrelson's reduced schedule creates opportunity for White Sox broadcast booth

Workload reportedly down to 81 games in new contract, meaning Steve Stone will need somebody else to work with

When broadcasters' contracts are expiring, we usually hear about their extensions during the last week of the season. That's how it worked for Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone the last time this happened, and we heard the same about Ed Farmer and Darrin Jackson this time around.

But the last games of the season came and went without any word. Sure, Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone made a casual reference to next year at the end of the last broadcast, but the Sox tend to make a big deal about their icon.

Bruce Levine provides a good reason: Harrelson's next deal won't be a simple reupping.…