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This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!Chicago White SoxOverall: 96 Title track: T35 Ownership: 103 Coaching: 122 Players: 90 Fan relations: 116 Affordability: 27 Stadium experience:?91 Bang for the buck: 78 Change from last year: -11This spring, a baseball team in Chicago steamrolled through April and early May, winning at a .697 clip through game No. 33 on the backs of a gleaming sub-3.00 team ERA and a .300-plus OBP. And that team was not the Cubs! OK, it was. But it was also the White Sox, who played like world-beaters for the first five weeks of the season, only to let the world dole out beatings at their expense for the final 21. The Sox finished the year under .500 for the fourth straight time, then said goodbye to Robin Ventura, their all-time best third baseman-turned-beleaguered manager. It was ... not a winning formula in the AL Central (11 games out of the wild card) or the Ultimate Standings. The Sox rank No. 96 overall, the teams lowest ranking since 2004.Whats goodThe expiration date on the White Soxs 2005 World Series-engendered goodwill still looms far off, at least according to Chicagos T35 showing in title track. (When your team lands in the postseason nine times since 1901, a long shelf life makes a sad kind of sense.) Besides championship runs, the Sox logged just one top-50 grade, in affordability. An average White Sox ticket ran fans $29.55, compared to their crosstown rivals $51.33. If you cant beat the Cubs on the field, beat them off of it!Whats badVentura spent a decade on the South Side, where he collected five Gold Gloves and an All-Star berth from 1989-1998. But his success as a player in pinstripes did not translate to success as a skipper in pinstripes. In five seasons at the helm, Ventura won only 46 percent of his games, and this year -- with the organization expected to finally contend for the playoffs after a seven-year absence -- he fell short again, as his team finished 16? games behind the AL Central-leading Indians. Ventura chose to not return to the White Sox, and as a parting gift, the fans gave him a No. 122 ranking in coaching, dead last among all four sports.Whats newWho do the White Sox want to be? Which direction do they want to pursue? Do they go win-now mode and buffer their stable of stars with some high-priced free agents? Or do they burn the house down, offload Chris Sale and Jose Quintana and turn their focus to the farm? Owner Jerry Reinsdorf, at the helm since 1981, doesnt seem to know, and the fans confidence in him has plummeted in turn. 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The mile split was 1:35.68. The old record was 1:47.27 set by Optimizer in the 2012 Kent Stakes.Hell Pay held on for second by a neck over third-place Inspector Lynley, who came very wide into the stretch and finished well. Converge finished fourth, 1-3/4 lengths farther back.Hanford Memorial: Bodhisattva finished fastBodhisattva won his second straight race since being reunited with trainer Jose Corrales in the $50,250 Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes.Bodhisattva broke a seven-race losing streak in his prior start when he closed from far back to win a third-level optional-claiming race at Laurel Park. The win was the first for Bodhisattva since the Federico Tesio Stakes at Laurel in April 2015.Last summer, Corrales took Bodhisattva to western Canada, where he finished fourth in the Grade 3 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park. He then made one start for trainer Wally Pugh at Northlands. Bodhisattva then was sent to Southern California, where he made three starts for trainer Doug ONeill earlier this year before being sent back east to Corrales.In the 1-11/16-mile Hanford, Kobel set the early pace inside Aint Got Time as they raced well clear of the rest of the field through quick fractions of 23.dddddddddddd.85, 47.29, and 1:10.88. Aint Got Time eventually got the best of that battle but was replaced on the front end in midstretch by Savoy Stomp. Bodhisattva then came flying to take the lead in deep stretch and win by 1-1/4 lengths.Kid Cruz rallied from last in the seven-horse field to nip Aint Got Time for third by a neck, finishing 1-1/4 lengths behind Savoy Stomp.Bodhisattva, ridden by Taylor Hole, paid $25.60 as the second-longest price in the field. The final time was 1:44.20 following a mile in 1:37.77.Hockessin: Green Gratto outfights Big Guy IanA week after he tired to finish fifth in the Belmont Sprint Championship, Green Gratto turned in a gutsy performance to outbattle Big Guy Ian in the $50,125 Hockessin Stakes.Green Gratto prompted the early pace inside Big Guy Ian through fractions of 22.16 and 44.95 before inching away in the stretch to win the six-furlong race by three-quarters of a length. He was timed in 1:10.82.Trainer Gaston Grant supplemented Green Gratto to the Hockessin on entry day.He was acting like he wasnt tired, Grant said. Hes a durable horse. This is his 45th start. Its all the animal. Its not me.Green Gratto, ridden by Jose Ortiz, paid $5 as the favorite in the six-horse field.Sir Rockport finished third, three-quarters of a length behind Big Guy Ian. Chief Istan, the 9-5 second choice, raced in good early position behind the leaders, lodged a three wide bid on the turn, then flattened out to finish fifth.Any Court Inastorm was bumped and shuffled back after the start, then trailed throughout. ' ' '