As Major League Baseball and the players union turned up the intensity of talks Monday night, working on a path toward an agreement that could get the season started on time, White Sox fans still smarting from 1994 braced for the worst.
As buzzkills go, a regular season work stoppage would cut deeper on the South Side than it would in many other places. With most of their 93-win team from 2021 intact, the Sox will be favored – perhaps heavily – to repeat as division champions.
