My South Side Sox colleague, Dante Jones, did an excellent job covering the news yesterday that White Sox closer, Liam Hendriks, has Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He conveyed all the human emotions professionally and eloquently. Thank you, Dante, for putting what we all felt at the moment into words.
It’s often easy to place famous people on pedestals and lose touch with the fact that they are humans first and foremost. Damar Hamlin was a reminder to sports fans of that mere days ago, and now White Sox fans have been hit very close to home with that reality, too.