March 14Mar 14 March 14, 1994 - Sports Illustrated took issue with former NBA superstar Michael Jordan and his attempt to play Major League Baseball. Jordan was on the cover of the magazine again but in a far different light. The caption read, “Bag It Michael! Jordan and the White Sox are Embarrassing Baseball.” From that day on, Jordan, who was always very cooperative with that magazine, would never speak to them again. His biggest objection to the story was that they never talked with him as part of it. During the documentary “The Last Dance” the writer of the story, Steve Wulf, said that after Jordan showed some potential and a sincere desire to play the game, he wrote another piece apologizing but the magazine never published it. No reason was ever given. March 14, 2022 - After the White Sox failed to even attempt to keep him with an 18.4-million-dollar qualifying offer, Carlos Rodon signed a two-year, 44-million-dollar deal with the Giants. Rodon was coming off of a tremendous season with the White Sox, pushing himself into Cy Young favorite status before running out of gas and being sidelined for a month late in the White Sox’s 2021 playoff season. But a combination of foolhardy overconfidence in his thin rotation depth and sheer frugality prevented G.M. Rick Hahn from extending any offer. The decision blew up in the White Sox’s faces, as the wildly-disappointing, 81-81 team could certainly have used what Rodon gave the Giants that season, 14 wins, a 2.88 ERA and 237 strike outs in 178 innings.
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