Talk:Chicago White Sox

Alternate shirts, 2010 season
It seems like they have been wearing their alternate shirts a lot more often this year than either their home or away shirts. Anybody know why? Tad Lincoln (talk) 01:35, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure why they've done that this year. It begs the question whether black road pants are far behind!--Factchk (talk) 17:27, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

The reason was that under Ozzie Guillen the starting pitcher got to select the jersey. You'll notice that Mark Buehrle always picked the black, and I believe Danks as well. I think that is over now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.66.236 (talk) 19:18, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Nationality of Players
Given the fact that baseball is becoming an increasingly more international sport (i.e., more non-U.S. leagues in existence, more non-U.S. players in the MLB), the roster formatting on Wikipedia should probably be updated to reflect that. If you look at the formatting for other international sports (such as soccer), the player nationalities are indicated using flag icons. I think this would be a beneficial update to each of the major league rosters in the MLB, it would not be too difficult to implement and it would not clutter the information on the page. However, before such change a change is implemented, I thought it would be healthy to achieve at least some form of consensus on the talk page for each team. yuristache (talk) 01:10, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

Western League
Do any other teams have Western League pennants listed in the infoboxes? It seems kind of out of place. And if it's going to be there, it should at least be accurate. According to the article, Western League (original), the White Stockings won the Western League pennant in 1900, as well. Tad Lincoln (talk) 03:17, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The Western League was a minor league; it did not become major until Ban Johnson reorganized it. So, those pennants shouldn't be listed in the infobox, only leagues considered "major" should be listed there. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:43, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * In 1900, it was called the American League, but was still a minor league; the Sox won the pennant; it broke with the establishment in 1901 and declared itself major; and the Sox won the pennant that year too. Whether those pre-1901 championships should be listed is questionable. Maybe this is a question for the baseball project page? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:02, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Style of English and date formats
Since the article is about an American professional baseball (MLB) team, it seems that the preferred style of English should be American English per MOS:TIES. This should also apply to dates as well per MOS:DATETIES and MOS:DATEUNIFY. So, I was bold and added Template:Use mdy dates and Template:Use American English to the top of the article along with a hidden note referencing this talk page post. I'm pretty sure that's not something that should be controversial, but I'm happy to discuss if others feel differently. Thanks in advance. - Marchjuly (talk) 08:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Retiring of Konerko's number
I'm not sure why the sentence "Paul Konerko's number 14 was retired prior to the game against the Minnesota Twins on May 23, 2015." needs to be removed from the article. The statement is supported by a reliable source so it can be verified. The only reason given each time it has been removed by (see, , and ) is that "This event occurred earlier this season". I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean because most of the things the article describes have already occurred. If the wording of the sentence is a problem that can be fixed, but it seems that a source is needed somewhere to show when Kornerko's number was retired, right? I'm not interested in engaging in any edit warring. I`m just trying to understand what's wrong the sentence about Konerko. If text is not needed, the perhaps the source should at least be added to the date his number was retired in the retired number list. Shouldn't the retiring of a player's number be something that is supported by a reliable source somewhere within the article. - Marchjuly (talk) 06:45, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Minor issue question
Should it be "The Chicago White Sox are..." (current construction) or "The Chicago White Sox is..."? It's one team, so is the singular verb correct?--Daveler16 (talk) 16:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Logo & Cap Insignia
Is there a way we can add to the MLB info box parameters to include an option for both “Logo & Cap Insignia” as one since the White Sox are the only MLB team where they’re one in the same? I realize every other team has a separate logo and cap Insignia but for the WS exclusively it makes sense. Banan14kab (talk) 20:35, 27 November 2022 (UTC)