So, we’re getting a longtime sportswriter—more than a decade on the Chicago White Sox alone, I’m told—to take over for Jim Margalus as managing editor of South Side Sox.
Margalus is a big loss, no matter how you dice it. Ballantini himself said it time and time again: There is no better White Sox site on the planet than South Side Sox, and that is almost exclusively a tribute to Jim and his tireless years atop the SSS masthead.
Replace the master with a former White Sox beat writer, a dude that has written a book on the White Sox, put a piece in the 2005 World Series program, broke into fandom with the South Side Hit Men, walked the tightrope between frisky factions in 2011 well enough to still garner fist bumps from Ozzie or Kenny, and it’s all good, right?