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“Every day we talk about it, as far as how we game plan the red zone, how we game plan third down, what are the best things for him to be on? How do we get him the ball? The reality is the way we’re playing football right now, there are a lot of unhappy offensive pass catchers but they’re being professional and they’re trying to help us win. When you’re running the ball so much, (among) your pass catchers, no one is going to be happy. And that is the case. … When you run the ball this much, certain people are happy about it. But we’re not happy when we don’t score the points. And usually in this league passing production leads to more points. Until we get the passing game to produce better, we’re going to have a hard time. … To look at the big picture, we’ve got so many specific little scopes of how do we get more production in the passing game to look at. So I just don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how many targets and catches a guy will end his year with. I’m trying to get us to score enough points to beat the next team. And like I said, to me, until the passing game changes, it’s going to be hard for that to be different.”

Mount Carmel’s Dennis Furlong (11) pulls away from the pursuit of Batavia’s Brody Osborne (20) as he looks to pass before running in for the winning touchdown with no time left on the clock in a Class 7A second-round playoff game in Chicago on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)

“Right from the start, we weren’t ready to play,” Hawks coach Jeremy Colliton said. “Actually, we had a good first shift but we didn’t finish the shift off, and then it snowballed from there. They get the second one. It’s an uphill battle.”

“We need to dramatically improve our pitching, I don’t think there’s any question about that,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said in October during his end-of-season news conference. “Our starting rotation simply wasn’t good enough this year to compete. … If you look at the whole season, there’s no question that we have to acquire more pitching, better pitching this winter. I think that’ll be the No. 1 priority because, said simply, that was the downfall of this season was that our rotation was short, and we weren’t effective enough in terms of run prevention.”

Candidates for the Golden Days Era ballot include Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Danny Murtaugh, Tony Oliva and Maury Wills. Candidates for the Early Baseball Era ballot include Bill Dahlen, Bud Fowler, Vic Harris, Grant Johnson, Lefty O’Doul, Buck O’Neil, Dick Redding, Allie Reynolds and George Scales.

“SoxFest has been built on nearly three decades of 10,000 fans, players, coaches and staff who come together under one roof to celebrate the White Sox,” the team said in a statement. “As we continue to try and predict and manage COVID-related protocols in indoor settings, we believe it is not possible to carry out the traditional experience and activities that have made SoxFest special, like autographs, photos and guest appearances.”

“I can understand that people are scared, people are nervous,” Broadwell said. “Sometimes there can be information that can be helpful and some that can be somewhat misleading. It’s just really hard to digest all the information that is out there and stories that are filtering through that maybe even come from trusted sources.”

“A big one for me, and this is always going to be something, is refining my routine and preparation,” Giolito said of his lessons learned. “There were a couple (of) starts that you’d consider blowup starts that I had, especially early in the season, where I look back on those and I think, ‘Man, that was very avoidable.’ If I had just put that little bit of extra effort into my preparation in the days leading up … I can be a lot more consistent pitcher.

“I’ve been in multiple games, a lot of games being down big, seeing things happen that are possible,” he said. “That’s pulling out victories. All it takes is parts of the game to buckle down and stick together. For me that’s just keeping that calm, not getting rattled and sharing whatever experience I can to keep us together as well.”

“I know I reported every single detail to an individual at the NHLPA, who I was put in contact with after,” Beach said last week during an interview on Canada’s The Sports Network. “I believe two different people talked to Don Fehr. And for him to turn his back on the players when his one job is to protect the players at all costs, I don’t know how that can be your leader. I don’t know how he can be in charge.”