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By Sarah Langs

While baseball season is entering its second month, hockey and basketball are well into the playoffs at this point. With both the Bulls and Blackhawks having made the playoffs every season since the 2008-09 one, and the Bulls making it 10 of the last 11, Chicago has gotten used to the postseason.

Today, the White Sox are showing their support for the two Chicago squads currently battling their ways for championship glory. The organization has outfitted eight statues throughout the stadium in Bulls and Blackhawks jerseys, including a few that seem to defy the laws of physics. How did they get the jersey over Harold Baines’ hands as they clutch that bat?

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Others donning the Chicago red home jerseys are statues of Frank Thomas, Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, Carlton Fisk, Paul Konerko, Luis Aparicio and Charles Comiskey.

Always rooting on our friends. @NHLBlackhawks @chicagobulls #ChicagoPride #GoHawks #GoBulls pic.twitter.com/D9RJhxxrVP

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 6, 2015

.@79JoseAbreu's after-work attire. #GoHawks pic.twitter.com/mQApgBR34X

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 6, 2015

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Ozzie Guillen rips into Nick Swisher again

How Jiménez broke out of slump: 'Hit it where there's no people&#...

Renteria: 'Don't be surprised' if Moncada not in Sox lineup ...

Ozzie Guillen isn’t done ragging on Nick Swisher. Guillen took another shot at the former White Sox outfielder while telling a story on White Sox Postgame Live Tuesday night.

Not only does @OzzieGuillen call Juan Uribe "the Dominican Jim Thome"

But he also tells a great Uribe-Swisher story 😂 pic.twitter.com/lGtW8zbqvP

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When giving an example of why he loves Juan Uribe so much, Guillen decided to tell a story of an interaction between Swisher and Uribe on “Nick Swisher bobblehead night” at U.S. Cellular Field.

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“(Swisher) comes to Uribe and says, ‘Hey Juan, look at what I got!’” Guillen said while pretending to hold a bobblehead. “And Juan said, ‘Ya, you seen outside? I’ve got a statue. I’ve got it hitting, catching the ball when we won the World Series. You don’t.’ How about that one?”

Uribe was critical in the White Sox World Series championship, including recording the final two outs of Game 4. One of those outs-- his grab made while falling into the stands-- is the catch that has been enshrined outside Guaranteed Rate Field.

Nick Swisher only played one season in Chicago, and slashed .219/.332/.410 with a -1.4 dWAR.

Apparently that one season made quite the impression on Guillen, as he declared last week, “I hate Nick Swisher with my heart.”

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Ozzie Guillen rips into Nick Swisher again

How Jiménez broke out of slump: 'Hit it where there's no people&#...

Renteria: 'Don't be surprised' if Moncada not in Sox lineup ...

Whatever Dallas Keuchel said after Monday night’s uninspiring loss to the Tigers really worked. Or maybe the return of Tim Anderson and Edwin Encarnacion to the lineup gave the Sox the spark they needed? Or maybe it was a little bit of both?

Whatever the reason, the White Sox offense finally broke out of its collective slump in Tuesday’s 8-4 win against Detroit.

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Leading the charge was Eloy Jiménez, who busted out of a slump of his own by going 2-4 with a homer and four RBI. He had previously been 1-23 dating back to Aug. 5, and used a simple approach to break through.

“I was in a slump, and I feel like I was seeing the ball good, but I wasn’t hitting it to the right spot,” Jiménez said through interpreter Billy Russo. “(I was) swinging at some balls a little bit out of the zone. Now I’m just trying to see the ball and hit it where there’s no people.”

That’s always a good idea.

But when asked for his thoughts on Jiménez’s day, Rick Renteria provided a bit more of a nuanced assessment.

“Consistency, there’s no secret to it,” Renteria said. “Solid approaches working both lefties and righties… faced some righties today and was able to stay in on them. The two-strike ball down the right field line to tack on another run, I mean he had some really good at-bats today.”

Zooming back out, this is the type of offensive output the White Sox envisioned when they built this team last winter. Tim Anderson setting the table, Jiménez and Encarnacion hitting bombs, and Abreu and Moncada driving in more runs with timely hitting.

“The entire lineup looked great,” said starter Gio Gonzalez. “Everyone looked aggressive going out there. Plays were being made around the horn, guys were doing their job hitting the ball, moving runners over. It just looked like a White Sox win today.”

“Today we felt really good,” Jiménez said. “We took care of business and you see what happened.”

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