The White Sox are in the painful part of their rebuilding effort, 30 games under .500 in a season where positives have been hard to come by.
The future is undoubtedly bright, but such has been the case for many rebuilding teams over the years. Exhibit A: the Kansas City Royals, on the South Side for three games this weekend.
The Crowns’ much-ballyhooed rebuild landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated and culminated with their emergence from the depths of the AL Central for back-to-back pennants and a World Series win in 2015. It was a wild amount of success for a franchise that went two decades without a playoff appearance, let alone a championship.