Headlines of July 17, 2015 “White Sox lookback, Part 7: The parade” … Scott Merkin, MLB.com “White Sox find a new radio home” … Scott Merkin, MLB.com “White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper marvels over 'very top of the line' Chris Sale” … Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune “2005 White Sox relive their World Series championship” … Paul Skrbina, Chicago Tribune “Cubs or Sox: Who's winning the WAR? … Rebecca Halleck and Kyle Betts, Chicago Tribune “Memories of Sox championship season still smolder” … John Kass, Chicago Tribune ““Second chance for Chicago White Sox?” … Scot Gregor, The Daily Herald” “White Sox bat men can take pressure off Robin Ventura” … Daryl Van Schouwen, Chicago Sun-Times “White Sox, Bulls announce radio broadcast agreement with WLS” … Daryl Van Schouwen, Chicago Sun-Times “Happy anniversary: 2005 World Series reunion weekend on tap” … Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago “White Sox enter second half at a crossroads” … Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago “Bulls, White Sox reach deal with WLS AM 890” … Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago “White Sox moving into second half at 100 mph” … Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago “White Sox: Five things to watch in second half” … Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago “Today on CSN: Samardzija, White Sox square off with Royals” … CSN Chicago “Chris Sale: White Sox must play through distractions as deadline approaches” … Dan Hayes, CSN Chicago “How the A's have fared in Jeff Samardzija deal with White Sox” … CSN Chicago White Sox lookback, Part 7: The parade Scott Merkin / MLB.com | @scottmerkin | July 16th, 2015 The White Sox will be honoring the 10-year anniversary of the team's 2005 World Series championship this weekend at U.S. Cellular Field. And this latest celebration presents a chance to look back at key moments from that postseason run, with a special focus on the World Series, with the words coming primarily from the participants themselves. Trips to the Oprah Winfrey Show for members of the team and an appearance on Saturday Night Live for Scott Podsednik followed. But nothing could compare to the victory parade. The White Sox won on a Wednesday and had little time to prepare for the outpouring of love and genuine euphoria coming two days later throughout the streets of Chicago. White Sox captain and first baseman Paul Konerko: "As a Major League baseball player, you are like, 'What does the All- Star Game look like? What does the World Series look like?' If you've never been to one, you can kind of imagine close to what it's like before you go. If you go, it's kind of in the ballpark of what you thought. Konerko: "You spend your whole life thinking about getting to the World Series and the big leagues. We thought about the parade for a day. Nobody thinks about the parade well in advance. No team is out there going, 'I wonder what the 2016 parade is like?' Konerko: "There's no lead time to think about it, so when you are hit in the face with it, it makes you feel small. It was like, if we would have known something like that was on the end if we win this thing, we would have been nervous. You don't realize how many people cared about it. Konerko: "When that parade happened, I think I speak for everyone on the team, you don't realize how many you touch with something like that. That's a good thing we didn't know while doing it because it would have made you maybe think more. But you just played the game. Now that it's over, you realize." The highlight of the parade festivities came when Konerko reached into his jacket and gave Reinsdorf the ball from the last out from the clinching Game 4. Konerko said that Reinsdorf had earned it and deserved it. An emotional Reinsdorf said it was the greatest moment of his life, a comment which he admitted in humorous fashion at SoxFest 2015 that he heard about from his wife. Reinsdorf: "That was incredible, especially when you think about what had happened the year before, when [Doug] Mientkiewicz and the Red Sox got in a big dispute about it. I never really thought about where the last ball was. If someone had said, 'Where is the last ball,' I would have assumed Paulie has got it because he caught it. I never would have made an issue about it. As far as I was concerned, if he caught the ball, it was his ball." At Konerko's retirement ceremony on the final Saturday night of the 2014 season, Reinsdorf joked that he wasn't giving back the ball from the last out. The White Sox did track down the ball from Konerko's grand slam in Game 2. White Sox find a new radio home Scott Merkin / MLB.com | July 16th, 2015 A joint statement released Thursday by the White Sox, the Chicago Bulls and Cumulus Media, Inc., announced that WLS- AM 890 has been chosen as the new flagship radio station via a multiyear agreement. White Sox coverage will begin airing on WLS in 2016, and Bulls coverage will start with the 2016-17 NBA season. Both deals run through 2021. This agreement includes all White Sox regular-season and postseason games, select Spring Training and exhibition games, as well as weekly original programming. "Cumulus Media and WLS-AM 890 are honored to become the radio home of the Bulls and White Sox, two of Chicago's very best sports brands," said Peter Bowen, vice president and market manager of Cumulus Media's Chicago operations, in Thursday's release. "Adding both teams to our programming schedule allows us to continue to capitalize on the strong growth and success Cumulus is enjoying in the Chicago market." In addition to WLS-AM 890, Chicago stations in the Cumulus family include WLS-FM 94.7, WLUP FM 97.9 and WKQX-FM 101.1. During a recent interview with MLB.com, White Sox senior vice president of sales and marketing Brooks Boyer spoke of how the team's priority was to find the right radio home. The White Sox are in the midst of their second five-year deal with WSCR 670 AM, a partnership for which Boyer had great praise, despite it coming to an end. Boyer was quoted in Thursday's release about the team's excitement to partner with Cumulus and WLS-AM 890. In the broadcast booth, Ken "Hawk" Harrelson and Steve Stone, who are on the television side, and Ed Farmer and Darrin Jackson, who are on the radio side, all have contracts that are up at the end of this season. Harrelson, the iconic television voice with 31 seasons of experience in the television booth, talked last year about possibly cutting back on some road games in the 2015 season. But he stayed on the full schedule, with the excitement brought about by general manager Rick Hahn's offseason moves. "We said we were going to talk in the second half. Get through the first half and see how the travel has been. We kicked it around last year, and we'll see how he feels after another year," Boyer said recently of Harrelson. "All four of them are up, and we'll talk to them here in the second half and make sure we understand what they want to do and what we want to accomplish." "When I lose my emotion or passion, so to speak, for the game, I'm going to get out," said Harrelson during a recent interview. "As long as I've got it, I want to die right here." White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper marvels over 'very top of the line' Chris Sale Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune July 16, 2015 n Cooper has watched many White Sox pitchers put together great stretches in his time as their coach over the years. He noted Esteban Loaiza's 21-victory season in 2003 and Jose Contreras' stretch between the All-Star breaks in 2005 and 2006, in the middle of which he helped the Sox to the World Series championship. He talked about Mark Buehrle's streak of retiring 45 straight batters and Bobby Jenks' streak of 41. So how does Chris Sale's recent stretch of 113 strikeouts over his last 10 starts compare in overall impressiveness? It has more "flair," Cooper said. "Sale has a little bit more shine because of the strikeouts," Cooper said. "It's probably the best streak as far as strikeouts, consistency and dominance." As the Sox and Sale emerge from the All-Star break this weekend for a four-game series against the Royals, starting with a split doubleheader Friday, Cooper also added a challenge to that compliment. "But his is a half (season)," he said. "Loaiza did it in a full season. Contreras did it over a full season. And now Chris and everybody else has X amount of games to go and nail down a great season for themselves and hopefully get us into the wild card or the playoffs." Starting pitching is one of the primary reasons the Sox went into the break on a hot streak and, unless the offense suddenly picks up steam, the club needs it to stay excellent to make the steep climb into contention. Up next: Royals at White Sox Up next: Royals at White Sox While Cooper pointed to some "lemons" for all of his pitchers, especially early in the season, Sox hurlers posted some of the best numbers in the majors in their 11 in July games before the break.