Sox Populi - A Chicago White Sox podcast

Chrystal O'Keefe, Joe Resis, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach and podcast rookie David James joined Brett Ballantini to look back on the 2025 season, from a few enticing angles: Hmm ... the return of Soxivus? Reviewing the final stats and standings for what ultimately was a disappointing White Sox team, whether you are on Team Chrystal (optimism) or Team Brett (pessimism) Vibe check on the 2025 White Sox, which features the brimming glass of David, Melissa's utter confusion, Chrystal's cautious optimism, and Joe's lingering doubts Brett challenges the sunny among us, particularly David and Chrystal, to explain what they anticipate in 2026 that will reward their faith Coaching staff changes for 2026, in light of Monday's breaking development that everyone but the manager was canned Is it fair to give Will Venable a pass for all the close losses the White Sox endured this season, and/or for a Pythagorean record that's 11 wins better than actual? Speed round: breakout player of 2026, 2026 win total, and ... with the White Sox be a last-place team next year? Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This edition of the mothership podcast features Dante Jones and Hannah Filippo, who join Brett Ballantini to discuss the encroaching and unprecedented third straight 100-loss season for the White Sox.  Believe it or not, some positives were discussed: Gut check! We all weigh in on how the season has transpired and the (brief) spike in performance in the second half; Dante's glass is half-full, Hannah has seen the floor and it's ugly On that note, this one's a freebie, White Sox Marketing Dept.: Chicago White Sox 2026: Everybody Has Shown Their Floor Concerns: No true reinforcements coming from Charlotte next year, with Hannah noting the lack of arms and Brett exposing the fact that there are ZERO bats on the cusp. Dante? He just wants Andrew Benintendi off of his team Brett reveals just how bad the past three seasons have been, against the backdrop of all of major league history Concerns heading into 2026 A brief digression into hate for the Crosstown team and an examination of rookies flying away from the team while in a playoff positioning fight Colson Montgomery crashed the majors prematurely, and that gamble paid off. Will that encourage the White Sox to be risky in moving players up ... and is that a good or bad thing? Does the flat tire at the very end of this season stain our outlook for 2026? Early, early, early predictions on the 2026 win total Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After some of Brett Ballantini's idiotic, angry and/or questionable ramblings in our staff discussions, Malachi Hayes suggested a ... debate? ... of sorts, centered around the White Sox trade of Adrian Houser to the Tampa Bay Rays at the deadline last week. You don't have to listen to the podcast to determine who won the debate: If you are a "gut" fan, you might like my arguments, while if you like reasoned analysis and optimism, Malachi is your guy. (By the way, first round went to Hayes, as Houser had his worst start of the season to open his Rays career.) This was mostly Houser and related debate, but we did move on to other things: Shout-out to pandemic-era media, as multiple technical snafus found the two of us back on Zoom for the podcast! Some of the crux of Brett's biscuit with Houser comes from some raw (albeit small sample-size) stats: No pitcher of 11 games or fewer with the White Sox has ever done better than Houser's 3.0 WAR — and you have to get to 18 games before you find a better (short) season. Additionally, over 125 seasons of White Sox history there have been just 18 better 11-game stretches better than Houser's 2.10 ERA ... and just seven have come in the DH era, and two this century Malachi counters that such stats make it even more urgent/compelling to deal Houser now, without (much) regard to the return. While Brett largely rejects the logic, Malachi pointed out that this deadline runs along the lines of 2024's, where a similiar-ish trade was made in sending out Erick Fedde for Miguel Vargas At some point, do you start collecting quality players rather than continuing to build for the future? Whether Houser is one of those guys, or Fedde was, SOMEONE has to be a building block instead of a trade piece Through process of elimination Brett isolated Malachi's best-case competitive window opening for the White Sox to be 2027. Brett is more of the 2029 belief As time ran out on our free Zoom, Malachi and Brett discussed some of the brighter developments of 2025: Edgar Quero, Kyle Teel and Colson Montgomery Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well hey there, strangers, it's been a couple of months since our last mothership podcast. But with a day off falling right at the midpoint of the season and a platform change to Riverside.fm in progress, it seemed a reasonable time to sit down and talk White Sox baseball. To that end, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Kristina Airdo and Hannah Filippo joined Brett Ballantini to check in on Chicago's first half and future fortunes. What excites each of us most about the position the White Sox are in at the moment? Assessing Will Venable's first half-season as a manager What is most troubling about the place the White Sox now sit, still a mere five games better than the 121-loss club of a year ago? Taking a hard, not fawning, look at the Noah Schultz promotion Is there about where each of us expected to be as fans at the 81-game mark of 2025? Speed round: Will the second half be better or worse for the White Sox, as well as thoughts on a final loss total  Will Colorado break the modern mark for losses? Some of us feel the Rockies will BLOW PAST 121 Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing our 600th podcast celebration, Brett Ballantini had the Sharing Sox duo of Leigh and Will Allan on, for the very first time together, the mothership. We attempted to make zero references to the 2025 White Sox, but failed. Still, this is mostly contemporary White Sox-free: Revisiting the first episode, Sept. 9, 2020, and acknowledging that the first on our Megaphone player is No. 8, that October. The first seven Sharing Sox podcasts were with Sports Illustrated and not (yet) on our player The first "true" podcast, then, No. 8, was on Oct. 14, 2020, and it concerned ... the managerial search (that ended with the hiring of Tony La Russa). The duo was shocked and horrified in remembrance of that time, and that innocence Does the duo regret landing on the White Sox as their team to root for? What drove the father-son duo to start the podcast in the first place? Favorite guests on the show How hard is it to continue doing this, both 143 programs and yes, still covering a team with narrow hopes of something better any time soon? The highlights of being able to do this podcast with a family member Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To commemorate the 600th Sox Populi Podcast, we had podcasting mainstays Chrystal O'Keefe (Visiting Dugout, Soxy Chicks, Estrogen Power Hour, et. al), Joe Resis (Sox Pop on the Farm) and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach (Ladies' Night) on to discuss the past four-five years of podcasting at Sox Populi and South Side Sox. Brief acknowledgement was made for Sharing Sox (the subject of podcast 601) and Tommy Barbee, our Father Soxivus and co-host of Killer B's, but then we dug into some talk with each host/guest about their respective programs. We bridged our break discussing the connection between our two most revolutionary podcasts, Estrogen Power Hour and Ladies' Night. And in the end, we wound up talking about the "mothership podcast," the catch-all program you're listening to right now. Throughout, host Brett Ballantini got his teeth kicked in, playfully (maybe). A special and enigmatic voice kicks off the podcast! The strange accounting that actually lands this podcast as somewhere around 608 or 610 Brett's habit of bullying (? gulp) some hosts into doing even more for Sox Populi The original name of the pirate radio broadcast, Estrogen Power Hour The most satisfying mothership podcast ever In a longer podcast post than usual, we'll roll the credits for all our podcasts: Mothership Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 190 programs beginning Jan. 28, 2020 Sharing Sox (Will and Leigh Allan) 143 programs beginning Sept. 9, 2020 Visiting Dugout (Chrystal O'Keefe, host) 82 programs beginning March 20, 2023 Sox Pop on the Farm (Brett Ballantini, host) 60 programs beginning May 4, 2021 North Side Sox (Sam Sherman and Janice Valenzuela), 23 programs beginning October 2020 Sox Pop Postgame Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 20 programs beginning April 13, 2021 Ladies' Night (Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, host) 13 programs beginning March 20, 2024 Killer B's (Tommy Barbee and Keelin Billue) 12 programs beginning Oct. 30, 2020 Sox Pop Pregame Podcast (Brett Ballantini, host) 10 programs beginning Oct. 7, 2021 Dugout Metrics (Brett Ballantini, Luke Smailes, Trevor Lines) 10 programs beginning Dec. 10, 2020 The Big Blurt (Rob Colletti and Bill Meincke) eight programs beginning Jan. 29, 2021 Soxy Chicks (Chrystal O'Keefe and Bayleigh Von Schneider) seven programs beginning March 30, 2024 DISH Deluxe (Brett Ballantini, host) six programs beginning July 17, 2023 Estrogen Power Hour (Keelin Billue, Janice Valenzuela, Colleen Sullivan, Chrystal O'Keefe) five programs beginning May 16, 2021 Live! three programs Time Out! (Di Billick, host) two programs beginning Aug. 1, 2024 Planet White Sox (Brett Ballantini and Trooper Galactus) two programs beginning Sept. 15, 2022 Group Therapy (Sam Sherman, host) two programs beginning April 26, 2022 Explain it to Me Like I'm 5 (Keelin Billue, host) two programs beginning March 8, 2022 Second Hand Embarrassment (Jacki Krestel, host) one program on Jan. 12, 2024 (Don't add them up, the math is a little fuzzy.) Also, the milestone podcasts, at least per our Megaphone player: Podcast 1 Mothership Podcast 1: Janice Valenzuela at Sox Fest, Jan. 28, 2020Podcast 100 Mothership Podcast 42: A Sweep, a Six Pack, and the Power of Strawberry Cheesecake Cannolis, April 26, 2021Podcast 200 Postgame Podcast 8: Goodbye 2021 season, Oct. 12, 2021Podcast 300 Sharing Sox 83: Is That a Rotund Female We Hear Warbling?, Aug. 27, 2022Podcast 400 Visiting Dugout 17: Detroit Tigers, May 25, 2023Podcast 500 Visiting Dugout 45: Minnesota Twins, April 29, 2024 Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chicago White Sox wrapped up a series in Sacramento by falling from ahead and losing a series with an extra-inning loss — a loss that put them at, you may want to sit down for this, THE EXACT SAME RECORD PACE AS 2024 (if you've been living under a rock, that's 41-121). Seems a good time to sit down, as Brett Ballantini did with Hannah Filippo, and wonder what in the world we are doing following this team: An overall assessment of the feeling in 2025 vs. 2024 which, frankly still leaks out a bit more hope How the White Sox are better in 2025: The starting pitching, while not better up top than 2024's Crochet-Fedde combo, is holding its own and may be flexing more depth overall; the offense has had some strong bursts, despite its inconsistency; rookies to get excited about What is not different, 2025 vs. 2024: Luis Robert Jr. is bad, the in-game decision-making and team urgency hasn't proven to be better Will the White Sox finish better than the Colorado Rockies, who trail the White Sox by 2 ½ games as of this recording? Also a mini-Visiting Dugout preview with Brewers expert Hannah, who says, yes, the White Sox are about to get swept by the Brew Crew Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the White Sox tumbling from first place (OK, they were 2-4, and they were tied for last place at the same time) to last, it was time for Brett Ballantini to assemble Chrystal O'Keefe, Joe Resis and Hannah Filippo to discuss the state of the team. The crux of this podcast was how similar or different this 2025 team feels from 2024: Backing that things are different are the run differential of only -3, as well as the team having won four games "already." The pitching staff is holding up OK, and the club already has more blowout wins in 2025 than a year ago Now on the other hand, 4-11 means the White Sox are still on track for 119 losses, and they currently sit in last not just in the division but the American League. Overall, the club still can't hit worth a damn The verdict? Three of us are skewing toward 2025 being more of the same as 2024, while sunshine Chrystal thinks the vibes of the club are too good not to make for a measurable improvement. We have 147 games to still to find out Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is that title a gag? No, actually, the White Sox have spent all but one day of this season in first place, including at the moment this podcast was recorded and published. Sure, the team has lost both of its series this season and sits 2-4, but so what? A five-way tie for first in a terrible AL Central still counts as first! Joe Resis, Brian O'Neill, Malachi Hayes and Hannah Filippo joined Brett Ballantini for a roundtable discussion of the season's first week: The White Sox started the year on a rotation roll, waiting five starts before (sort of) even surrendering an earned run, who saw that coming? Given the certainty of slumps and injuries, do the White Sox have the reinforcements that will keep the rotation the strongest aspect of the team for a second straight year? Offensively, this team already has as many "blowouts" as all of 2024 (two). Is there something different about the bats this season that will help stave off double-figure losing streaks and another run at 120 losses? We all revisit why, after a 121-loss season and a GM now unsure whether his 2025 club can be better this year, there are no position player rookies on the White Sox RIGHT NOW Speaking of, it does seem that Chris Getz skews his roster more toward "swapping pieces out easily" than "GOOD PLAYERS" Can this White Sox team turn into something swinging upward, like the poor but promising squad of 2018? Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't avoid the reality of the 2025 season any longer, thus Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Hannah Filippo and Brett Ballantini sat down to discuss our predictions for the 2025 season, in the framework of the annual South Side Sox prognostication challenge. We focused significantly on the White Sox, but took a broader look at baseball as well: Season wins ran the gamut of sunny (Hannah, 55) to dour (Brett, 42), with Melissa (48) sidling almost exactly in-between Given no clear standout stars for the Sox (and the one we have, Luis Robert Jr., may not be in Chicago all season), our picks for best and worst White Sox in 2025 are packed with variety. In some cases, a single player is forecast as both best AND worst on the team this year Drilling down into the AL Central, which appears to be a three-team fight, at the very least. Will pitching rule the day — and which pitching will take a step forward in 2025? Storylines around the league jumping out at us include the improvements in Boston (Hannah) and the Shohei Ohtani Watch (Melissa) Will the White Sox have a winning March? With Midwest weather, will they even get all four games in? Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With pitchers and catchers reporting this week and games underway at the end of next, it seems time to cinch it up and hunker down to discuss the prospects of the 2025 White Sox. Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Chrystal O'Keefe, Hannah LaMotta, Joe Resis and Brett Ballantini gather to discuss the club as constituted, trying at the dawn of the season to skew optimistically: Things to be excited about? Yes, truly: Pitching depth, hungry and healthy players, Noah Schultz continuing the "tradition" of White Sox power lefties, a better offense Several great thematic ideas for a second or third printing of the White Sox pocket schedule An aside that frames the 2024 White Sox as a team not just a handful of games worse than a replacement team, but perhaps a full dozen The relief of having Will Venable running the club vs. Pedro Grifol (or Tony La Russa), and the challenges that await him (Of course) win predictions on the season, ranging from 42 to 59 Oh, and happy birthday to Billy OK and homeday to Willow OK! Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sox Populi and South Side Sox had two writers attending the reimagined SoxFest this past weekend, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach for both days, and Kristina Airdo lucky enough to cover the better day, kickoff night on Friday. Both sat with Brett Ballantini to discuss the pluses and minuses of the event: First, the pluses, including a terrific leadoff night on Friday. Kristina took that in from the media space, while Melissa and family was there in full fan mode — including an appearance on stage with son Sage! How the intimacy of the event (or, cynically, the "selective audience" the White Sox attract nowadays) made everything more satisfying Could the White Sox have hoped for SoxFest 2025 to go any better? Flops from the weekend, including a very disorganized Saturday night Melissa's tips on what to do and when, including the unbelievable intimacy of the re-envisioned After Party Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and (while he’s in Chicago acting in Ashland Avenue at the Goodman Theatre) next room correspondent, Will, do the expected evaluation of the 2025 White Sox season: the good, the bad, and the not-quite-as-ugly as the past two years. They also delve into the firing of four coaches the day after the season ended, most notably the dismissal of pitching coach Ethan Katz, who seemed to have done a very good job with a young and not particularly talented staff, many of whom were castoffs from other teams. What do Chris Getz and Will Venable have in mind? All they let on was the usual p.r. b.s.release, which no reporter with access to the team has bothered to follow up on. And, of course, because the podcast was recorded the morning before the start the playoffs, they make their predictions for the Wild Card round, not all of them totally sensible, but, what the heck, why not go with the gut. Or heart. Or anything but brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Ballantini flies solo on this postgame podcast, addressing the ramp-up to 100 losses for the 2025 White Sox, and what infamy the club can still achieve in 2025: A rundown of the ins and outs of where the White Sox now stand (seventh-worst White Sox team ever) and can still fall to (sixth-worst ever) And with that, the second-half record is looking uglier; does the flat tire ending 2025 leave a bad taste in your mouth for 2026? Will the White Sox set a new losses high for this 2022-25 "era?" Two more losses will give the club the 11th-worst "era" in major league history It is the first time on the South Side, but how rare is losing 100 games three seasons in a row? Breaking down the club in terms of moving forward: the keepers, the pretenders, and the position moves that would make the most sense for a better 2026 Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to look back on the month of August in the White Sox affiliate world and drill down into the stories of the season that are pushing toward their conclusions. Brett Ballantini welcomes Joe Resis in to chat about the four full-season clubs active for all of August, from top to bottom: A rundown of all six teams in the system Do the White Sox have an overt (or vested) interest in having their key starting arms sidestep Charlotte? Would strong outfield play — using recent call-back Dominic Fletcher as the fulcrum — affect the decision of whether or not to pick up Luis Robert Jr.'s $20 million option for 2026 (Joe and Brett agree on the decision that should be made!) A salute to the playoff-bound Birmingham Barons, plus special citations for the key figures in a second straight season of stellar starting pitching A bit of a deep dive into Jeral Perez's season, and whether he's still on an accelerated pace to the majors Who will ultimately have the greater impact in the majors, 2024 trade deadline pieces Miguel Vargas or Perez? (Again, Joe and Brett agree!) Beyond All-Everything Caleb Bonemer, who is another intriguing name among the many middle infield prospects? Congrats to Lucas Gordon for his call-up to Double-A, it is well-deserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Ballantini, Joe Resis and Melissa Sage-Bollenbach gathered together to look back at the month of July in the White Sox farm system, with special attention paid to the surging Birmingham Barons.  Topics? Yeah, we got 'em: A rundown of all six teams in the system, spotlighting the likelihood that due to some "tiebreaker" shenanigans in the Arizona Complex League just one White Sox affiliate will make the postseason in 2025 Breaking down what has made Shane Murphy so special in 2025 ... yet still outside of the MLB Pipeline Top 30 for the club And a related point, maybe pay more attention to an outlet like ours, ranking 100 prospects, than MLB and its oversights ... or anyone else, for that matter How is Birmingham doing what they're doing? Joe rescues his poor host before the break by remembering that possibly the best pitching in the entire system is NOT Shane Murphy ... but teammate Tanner McDougal. Apologies, Tanner A dive into scary-close to .500 Charlotte, a photo negative of Birmingham with massive mashing and no arms. If manager Sergio Santos, with one title under his belt so far, has a secret ... what is it? Joe reps the Dash, because no one else will Christian Gonzalez, the extraordinary DSL youngster so good the White Sox gave him the unprecedented call-up to Arizona IN-SEASON The sadness of seeing some blue-chip prospects stall out A final quickie round, who is your favorite prospect in the White Sox system right now? Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White Sox roared ... well, squeaked ... through the trade deadline, sending off only Adrian Houser and Austin Slater and getting back all of three minor league pitchers (only one of them even listed on any teams top 50 prospects) and one utility infielder. Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, talk about the White Sox activity or lack thereof, including what the future may mean for Luis Robert Jr., and then wander into the more interesting world of teams that actually got better ... or in some cases, worse (looking at you, Twins) ... and what all that may mean. The duo also consider the strong possibility the AL Central is headed back to its usual doldrums after a brief sojourn into adequacy in 2024, and commiserate with Guardians star José Ramírez, who deserves a better fate than playing for a team that doesn’t seem to care any more. Of course, there is fun talking about the post-All Star break offensive surge for the White Sox, and chat about just how real Colson Montgomery should be considered at this point. Speaking of fun, there are also a few chortles about how little the other team in town did on the trading front, with best wishes for the team north of the state line to whip them soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White Sox headed into the All-Star break needing just a .754 winning percentage the rest of the way to avoid a losing season. So with that in the bag, duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, look to matters of the field, including the draft. The Sox are gaining a lot of praise from professional evaluators for first-round pick Billy Carlson, an infielder from California who no doubt will have the huge success of their last California infielder first-round selection. Of course, that particular success has come in just the last month, not during the four-plus years Andrew Vaughn spent as a failure before getting traded to Milwaukee. Then there’s the All-Star game itself, which did not feature Adrian Houser and his 2.9 bWAR in less than half a season, but instead had Shane Smith as the Sox representative, apparently chosen by people who last saw a game on June 10 — since when Smith has given up 23 earned runs in 18 1⁄3 innings. In more crucial off-field matters, the two ooh and aah over a story eight teams have shown interest in Luis Robert Jr. and his 67 OPS+, but have more hope a decent set of prospects could be had for Houser or Mike Tauchman — or maybe some combination of all three. Or maybe some contender will take Robert if they can also have the recipe for the Campfire Milkshake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gals on our minors crew abandoned us for June, so it's Joe Resis joining Brett Ballantini for a snapshot of the Sox minors that focuses heavily on the big names at the top of the system: A quick rundown of all six teams in the system, only one of which is in line for postseason play at the moment The incredible MLB debut of Colson Montgomery, as both Joe and Brett express some shot, but also some caution, over the early bounty of the new White Sox shortstop Are three starts enough to panic over Noah Schultz and his questionable matriculation to Charlotte? No, of course not ... right? Hagen Smith is back from exile injury vacation tuneup, but there's not much at all to piece through yet Out of the break, a moment of remembrance for Bobby Jenks Shane Murphy, please do not go to Charlotte — proceed directly to the South Side Tanner McDougal amazing redemption. Also, we out the clown who listed Tanner at No. 99 on his preseason White Sox Top 100 prospects Braden Montgomery joins Schultz in the Futures Game on Saturday, a tidy honor; will he see Bham later this summer? Please support our White Sox writing and podcasts.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, took the cowards’ way out this week and recorded Sharing Sox before said Sox began a series at Dodger Stadium. Their prediction for that series may not be pretty, but the White Sox face no real pressure to win, as compared to when they next travel to Colorado and need to do well in order to avoid embarrassment. As for individuals, the chat naturally spent a lot of time on Luis Robert Jr. and the possibility there’s no possibility of getting more than a basket of used baseballs for him by the trade deadline, despite at least one professional analyst saying he does have value, honest. That just as naturally led to discussion of other trade chips, such as they are, with pessimism anything could be had for Andrew Benintendi without eating bazillions of salary dollars. But there's optimism that some lesser lights who have played like brighter lights, such as Mike Tauchman and Adrian Houser, might do very well on the market, along with relievers Mike Vasil and Steven Wilson. That in turn led to a look at Baseball-Reference’s team Wins Above Average by position chart, in which Sox starting pitchers and catchers fare well (Top 10), the much-maligned-before-the-season bullpen comes in about average (16th) and every other position rates 25th or worse. Once again, thank you, Colorado Rockies. Oh, yeah — we expressed admiration for Chase Meidroth, had our usual disagreement about the value of Miguel Vargas, continued to wonder how to evaluate the mysterious pluses and minuses of Lenyn Sosa.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices