Actually, deep freeze is more like it.
Nevertheless, the South Siders are still playing baseball, and there are yet moments to celebrate, harvested from this wreck of a season like kernels from a rotten cob.
Gavin Sheets, earning his second South Side Sox weekly honor of this year, is one of the only men on the roster who can consistently pummel the ball. In a team full of big-bat potential, it’s been the smooth-as-silk swing of Sheets that’s slashed a .294/.333/.647 over the last week of play, including two important homers.
Ironic, with a team supposedly studded with robust veterans, that a young buck like Sheets would be pulling the reins.