Change was the about only constant for Chicago sports teams in 2022. As we reflect on 2022, let's look back on the moments that made us jeer, that made us laugh -- and mostly importantly that made us cheer.
Bears 1. Shake it up: In just a three-day span in late January, the Bears hired Ryan Poles to be their next general manager and Matt Eberflus to be their 17th head coach.
The defense is now a mess, but the hope is Poles can bolster it with all the extra draft picks he acquired. The tirade went national and cast an ugly light on the Hawks. Wirtz quickly apologized, but the damage was done. "Some players can take a little bit more, maybe harshly at times, and blunt," Richardson said during his introductory news conference."And some players you maybe have to back off and realize, 'OK, I'll attack that tomorrow or after the game,' because I can tell they're already upset. They're not going to ingest anything I'm bringing to them right now.
La Russa was an unpopular choice when chairman Jerry Reinsdorf brought him back to the White Sox after being away from the field for a decade. Moving on: For nine years, Jose Abreu was a consistent force in the middle of the White Sox's lineup. "It's a lot of years of effort and some failures and some successes," Cease said."It really all kind of came together and by far, it was my most consistent year ever as a professional. As the years have gone on, I have gotten a lot more comfortable with a lot of things that go along with being a big-league baseball player. I was comfortable this year and performing and producing always feels good.