The Rays looked nothing like a World Series team after back-to-back losses to the Yankees at home in mid-May left them at a dull, dry, disappointing 19-19.

The defending American League champs were looking up at the Blue Jays, Yankees and first-place Red Sox in the East division. The one-run victories they’d feasted on in 2020 were giving way to one-run losses. And no Blake Snell to lead the rotation? Charlie Morton gone, too?

The Rays — who hadn’t been a popular pick to get back to the playoffs to begin with — were total longshots.

But since then? A 23-5 blitz has vaulted them to the best record in the majors at 42-24. Right behind them with the second-best record? The 41-24 White Sox.

Shall we all agree, then, to look at the teams’ series beginning Monday at Guaranteed Rate Field as an ALCS preview? Great, let’s do it.

Gambling sites give the Sox the best odds of any team to win the AL pennant. Generally, the Yankees come next — which is a bit hilarious considering they’re now in fourth place and a whopping 8 1/2 games behind the Rays. Clearly, the world has yet to fully buy into Austin Meadows, Randy Arozarena, Mike Zunino and the rest of a Rays roster that still makes a lot of people ask, “Who?”

The Sox have won four straight and eight of 10, but that’s the sort of thing that’s going to happen when seven games against the sad-sack Tigers are involved. Playing the Rays — perhaps in October, too? — is the real deal. Here’s what’s happening:

MON 14

Cubs at Mets (6:10 p.m., ESPN, Marquee)

The Cubs swept three games between the teams at Wrigley Field in April, but it’s the Mets who have the best home winning percentage (.739) in baseball. A tough four-game set starts tonight.

76ers at Hawks, Game 4 (6:30 p.m., TNT)

Not to tell Hawks coach Nate McMillan how to do his job, but concocting a game plan that involves preventing Joel Embiid from scoring every time down the court would be a good place to start.

Rays at White Sox (7:10 p.m., NBCSCH)

Too soon to give Lance Lynn, tonight’s starter, his first Cy Young award? Probably so. He goes against the Rays’ best, Tyler Glasnow.

Canadiens at Golden Knights, Game 1 (8 p.m., NBCSN)

The Habs have already upset the Maple Leafs and the Jets. Why not keep this crazy ride going awhile?

Jazz at Clippers, Game 4 (9 p.m., TNT)

Utah leads the series 2-1, but star Donovan Mitchell limped off the floor after a Game 3 loss. The never-been-to-the-conference-finals Clippers need any break they can get.

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images

TUE 15

Bucks at Nets, Game 5 (6:30 or 7:30 p.m., TNT)

As if it wasn’t enough for the Nets to be without James Harden (hamstring), now they might also be without Kyrie Irving (ankle). Lots of luck, Kevin Durant (alone).

Islanders at Lightning, Game 2 (7 p.m., NBCSN)

Is that a scent of early-’80s in the air? The Isles — big underdogs entering this series — outworked the host Bolts in the opener of this semifinal series.

Sky at Lynx (8 p.m., ESPN2)

Picking up a pair of much-needed “Ws” against last-place Indiana was nice, but it doesn’t mean the Sky are back in business. This is a much better barometer.

WED 16

Cubs at Mets (6:10 p.m., Marquee)

Just because he’s cruising to yet another Cy Young award and hasn’t given up more than one earned run in any start this season, is Jacob deGrom really that much better than the next guy?

USWNT vs. Nigeria (8 p.m., FS1)

The Nigerians might be overmatched in this Summer Series friendly in Austin, Texas, but the Super Falcons are second to none in the nickname department.

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THU 17

Euros: Denmark vs. Belgium (11 a.m., ESPN)

The Danes take on the world’s No. 1-ranked team in Copenhagen in their first game without star Christian Eriksen, who collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during the tournament opener against Finland before being resuscitated with a defibrillator.

White Sox at Astros (7:10 p.m., NBCSCH)

The Sox haven’t visited Minute Maid Park since May of 2019, back when men were men, the Astros were dizzyingly good and “trash can” wasn’t a punch line.

FRI 18

Marlins at Cubs (7:05 p.m., Marquee)

You’ve got to give the Marlins credit for continuing to pull off an amazing feat: contending for last place despite owning a positive run differential.

SAT 19

Sun at Sky (1 p.m., Ch. 2)

These teams haven’t met since Connecticut bounced the Sky out of the 2020 playoffs. Of course, that was back in the days when “C. Parker” meant Cheyenne, not Candace.

White Sox at Astros (6:15 p.m., Fox-32)

The Astros are no ordinary trash-can bangers. They captured their fourth straight series win Sunday to stay right on Oakland’s heels in the AL West race.

Fire at Crew (6:30 p.m., Ch. 9)

The 1-5-1 Fire haven’t scored more than one goal in a game since the season opener. In other words, the champs in Columbus won’t know what hit ’em.

SUN 20

U.S. Open final round (11 a.m., Ch. 5)

A Bryson DeChambeau repeat? A second U.S. Open title for Dustin Johnson or a third for Brooks Koepka? But forget about those guys. This one’s all about Phil Mickelson, who, at 51, is coming off a stunning win at the PGA Championship but remains — with an almost unbelievable six runner-up finishes in this event — one major shy of a career Grand Slam.

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“The older I get in this game the more I respect and enjoy these moments because you don’t know when you’re going to get them again,” Lynn said.

DETROIT — It has taken right-hander Lance Lynn two and a half months to become a fan favorite.

Pitching to a 1.23 ERA with a 7-1 record in your first 11 starts as a White Sox will do that. Throw in the no-nonsense, attack mentality on the mound sprinkled with eruptions of emotion after clutch outs, an expressed connection to the South Side and, well, that’s the thing love affairs are made of.

“That’s who I’ve always been,” Lynn said in a conversation with the Sun-Times. “That guy who wears his emotion on his sleeve. I’m going to give it everything I have to help the team win. I’ve had that since I was a little kid.

“The other day [against the Blue Jays] it was ‘Let’s effing go,’ trying to get the boys going because we’re in a one-run game and it’s time to add on there. Part of it is to pump the guys up, and they seem to enjoy it. It just kind of comes out.”

It can be traced back to Lynn’s childhood, the trailer park kid who was looked down on, he says, whose big brother never let him win anything or get an easy layup on the basketball court. And it has stayed with Lynn at age 34 as he pitches for a team with World Series ambitions.

Lynn pitched in one as a rookie with the Cardinals in 2011 and has built an accomplished career since but hasn’t pitched in another Fall Classic.

“When you come into a season with a team with this much talent and a chance to win you make sure you get yourself ready to try to get to a whole new level,” Lynn said. “The older I get in this game the more I respect and enjoy these moments because you don’t know when you’re going to get them again.”

Lynn is already telling his wife he’s going to need a golf league to find or a baseball team he can pitch – and hit, he says – for a team when his career is over to feed his competitive monster.

People around the Sox say Lynn is one of the top clubhouse guys they’ve been around. Treating the 26^th guy on the roster like the team’s stars will do that for you.

“It’s simple,” Lynn said. “I grew up in a trailer park in the cornfields of Avon, Indiana. So I’m not better than anyone. Everyone here is the same, enjoying what they do and what they need to do for their careers and their lives. No one is bigger than anyone, and that’s how I was brought up. I refuse to look down on anyone.”

At 12, when Lynn was gaining notoriety as a Little League World series standout on his way to becoming a high school star and first-round draft choice out of Mississippi, he moved away from Avon.

“And from that point on I wasn’t going to treat anyone bad no matter how much success I had,” he said. “It also drove me to prove people wrong. That’s where the chip on the shoulder comes from.”

“The thing I like is his professionalism and mound presence,” manager Tony La Russa said. “He gets it and throws it, and he stands up in tough situations.”

Lynn, who makes his 12th start against the Rays Monday opening a series matching the top two teams in the American League, might be standing on the mound as the AL All-Star Game starter at this rate. He appeared in the 2012 game with the Cardinals and passed on going in 2019 to stay home with family. With his three kids older now, Lynn won’t turn it down this time.

“It would be cool to have that opportunity again,” he said. “If I get that opportunity it would be a dream come true, but it’s not something I’m worried about.”

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The musician, Mac’s co-star in ‘Soul Men,’ teams up with the Chicago comedian’s estate to remind a new generation of his ‘always edgy’ humor.

A biopic of Bernie Mac is in the works from John Legend, the musician who co-starred in “Soul Men” with the late, great Chicago comedian.

It will be “the ‘Soul Men’ reunion you all wanted to see,” Legend joked during a Thursday panel discussion at the 2021 Tribeca Festival.

The singer’s producing partner, Mike Jackson, said Mac’s estate is teaming up with Legend’s production company, Get Lifted, to make the feature film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“[Mac’s] humor was always edgy but it always had so much heart to it at the same time,” Legend said at the event. “You could tell he was a family man. You could tell that he loved the people he was talking about.”

Mac grew up mostly in Chicago and attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy, where an auditorium is named for him.

Sharing a bill with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and D.L. Hughley, he performed in a hugely successful stand-up tour that was captured in the hit film “The Original Kings of Comedy.” His 2001-06 sitcom “The Bernie Mac Show” earned him two Emmy Award nominations, and his other films included “Friday,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Mr. 3000.”

Mac died in 2008 after a battle with sarcoidosis, a disease that agitates tissue, particularly in the lungs.

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A 26-year-old man has been charged with a carjacking Friday in South Loop.

Treyvon Marks was charged with a felony count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, according to Chicago police.

About 2:10 a.m. Friday, he allegedly carjacked a 30-year-old man in the 200 block of West Harrison Street, police said. About five minutes later, Marks crashed in the 700 block of South Wells Street, and was taken into custody.

He is due in bond court Sunday.

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They endure such pain throughout their short lives and are given no chance for a happy ending. I am asking Sen. Dick Durbin to change that.

As an animal-loving taxpayer, I am devastated that dogs, cats and other animals who survive taxpayer-funded experiments are euthanized, even when they are healthy enough to be adopted out or retired. These innocent animals endure such pain throughout their short lives and are not given the chance for a happy ending. I am asking Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to change that.

The National Institutes of Health, the Federal Drug Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have all enacted policies allowing for the retirement of animals after testing ends, and Illinois has passed a law allowing for lab animal adoption.

SEND LETTERS TO: [email protected]. Please include your neighborhood or hometown and a phone number for verification purposes. Letters should be approximately 350 words or less.

I encourage Sen. Durbin to build on Illinois’ progress and join Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., in co-sponsoring the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experimentation and Research (AFTER) Act. This legislation, Senate Bill 1378, would require federal agencies to enact policies allowing for the retirement of animals no longer needed in government experimentation.

Taxpayers are forced to purchase animals for experiments, and they should have the right to adopt them.

David Kettler, Humboldt Park

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It’s writers like Rick Telander who keep me subscribing to the Chicago Sun-Times. He is always so insightful and interesting, as shown in his column this last week about Kris Bryant and the Cubs. I have been reading Chicago newspapers and their sports sections for around 70 years, and Telander is right at the top of all the great sports writers. I have even gotten a print subscription to the Sun-Times for my 12-year-old grandson, who plays and loves sports, so that he can enjoy and learn about sports from insightful writers like Rick.

Thank you, Rick Telander, for all the good work.

Robert Sullivan, Downers Grove

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By Dennis Byrne,
today at 11:08 am

Their racist attacks on white people

A couple of newspaper columns today (here and here) repeat the liberal/progressive/Democratic blarney that critical race theory is merely an innocent and compassionate plea for racial understanding.

Critical race theory enthusiasts, however conveniently, ignore the part about how whites, by the fact that they are white, are haters–consciously or unconsciously–of black people and brown people.

One cites the faultless, nay, the virtuous definition of the theory provided by PolitiFact:

In plain terms, critical race theory holds that racism is part of a broader pattern in America: It is woven into laws, and it shows up in who gets a job interview, the sort of home loans people are offered, how they are treated by police, and other facets of daily life large and small.

The other postulates that all that’s being taught is how:

…Black Americans have suffered through subjugation and violence and the ways in which that legacy is still relevant today in the realms of government, criminal justice, real estate and so on. This really isn’t controversial, or some high-stakes battle over high concepts: It’s plain reality versus people who wish to ignore it.

Who can argue with that? America is guilty of the sins of slavery, Jim Crow and various forms of racism. But the theory also postulates a lot, lot more. “White privilege” and “white racism” are omnipresent and its promoters are omniscient, they claim. But as its name makes clear, it is a theory. The theory is universal, and like many universal statements, it is riddled with exceptions, contradictions and contraries. Is the theory sound enough to formulate sound public policy that allows for no dissent?

The” proof” of the theory relies on statistical differences between the “races”–itself a term that likewise defies accurate definition. For example: A disproportionate number of black men are in jail compared to white men. A disproportionate number of black children score lower on standard tests than whites. A disproportionate number of black drivers are stopped by police than white drivers. And so forth.

But that is a long, long leap from proving that inbred, intrinsic, uncured or whatever racism is the only or even a major variable that explains those disparities. The logic that undergirds the theory violates one of sociology’s major warnings: correlation is not causation.

The theory’s boosters will have to do better than that is they want to persuade everyone or demand complete agreement that the theory is fact.

Maybe they can start by accurately describing what critical race theory is.

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Robins feeding young grapes, an outdoors thought by Fran Lebowitz, a potential savings on Class TA trailers and the first fireflies of the year are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors.

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Early Saturday morning, two males approached a group standing on the sidewalk in the 7500 block of South Prairie Avenue and opened fire, fatally striking a 29-year-old woman and wounding nine others.

At least 32 people have been shot, three fatally, in shootings across Chicago since Friday night, including one person killed and nine wounded in a single attack in Chatham.

Just after 2 a.m, two males approached a group standing on the sidewalk in the 7500 block of South Prairie Avenue and opened fire, Chicago police said.

A 29-year-old woman was struck in the leg and abdomen and transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified her.

Nine more victims, ranging in age from 23 to 49 years old were transported to area hospitals all in fair or good condition, according to police.

There is no one in custody.

A person was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in South Loop.

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He was struck multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. He has not yet been identified.

A 20-year-old woman was killed in a shooting Friday night in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.

She was in a vehicle with her boyfriend about 8:50 p.m. when a gunman approached them while yelling gang slogans in the 4700 block of South Rockwell Street, police said.

The woman was sitting in the passenger seat when she was struck in the neck and hand, police said.

After the shooting, her boyfriend drove off and pulled over at a Shell gas station, 4658 S California Ave., where Chicago Fire Department paramedics arrived. The woman was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital and later pronounced dead, police said. She has not yet been identified.

In nonfatal shootings, a 14-year-old boy was wounded in an attack Saturday in West Woodlawn.

The teen boy was playing with his friends on the sidewalk about 6:45 p.m. when someone opened fire in the 6500 block of South Champlain Avenue, police said.

He suffered a graze wound on the neck and was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

Two more teen boys were hurt in a drive-by shooting Saturday in Little Village on the Southwest Side.

The teen boys, both 17, were in the alley about 3:25 p.m. when a light-colored vehicle drove past them and someone from inside fired shots in the 3500 block of West Cermak Road, police said.

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In the weekend’s first reported shooting, two men were wounded in an attack in South Shore.

They were on the sidewalk about 6:50 p.m. Friday when someone fired shots in the 7500 block of South Kingston Avenue, police said.

The 33-year-old was struck in the arm and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said. The other, 29, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was taken to the same hospital in good condition.

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