{"id":18995,"date":"2025-05-11T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/18995\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:55:12","slug":"chicago-white-sox-honor-pope-leo-xiv-as-south-sides-very-own-on-video-board-at-rate-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/18995\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV as &#8216;South Side&#8217;s very own&#8217; on video board at Rate Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The White Sox \u201ccongratulated\u201d newly elected Pope Leo XIV on the video board at Rate Field as \u201cthe South Side\u2019s very own\u201d before Friday\u2019s game against the Marlins. A \u201csmall but appreciative crowd\u201d gave the message on the video board \u201ca nice ovation.\u201d The message from the White Sox came after the Cubs originally claimed Leo XIV as a fan. White Sox SVP\/Community Relations Christine O\u2019Reilly-Riordan said, \u201cI don\u2019t call it a troll. I call it an \u2018ahem\u2019 moment. [The Cubs] did their thing, and we were just like, \u2018Ahem \u2026\u2019 That\u2019s all we had to do. We gave them an ahem and walked away with our heads held up really high, with a lot of pride.\u201d She added, \u201cWe work with folks from the Cubs. I haven\u2019t heard from them specifically about this, but I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019m proud to own this.\u201d The message to Leo XIV came after a tribute to late MLBer Chet Lemon (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/05\/09\/chicago-white-sox-pope-leo-xiv-superfan-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/05\/09\/chicago-white-sox-pope-leo-xiv-superfan-cubs\/\">CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 5\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox \u201ccongratulated\u201d newly elected Pope Leo XIV on the video board at Rate Field as \u201cthe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4129,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-18995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}