Sox casters getting along better, shooting for improvements

MINNEAPOLIS - Steve Stone said the past week's worth of White Sox broadcasts with play-by-play partner Ken Harrelson "might have been the best five games we've worked in all the years we've been together."

The reason?

A sit-down "clearing of the air" talk last week between the veteran talents who've made their marks as individuals and with other TV booth partners, but not so much as a team. Fans liked the Harrelson-Don Drysdale and Harrelson-Tom Paciorek pairings during the 1980s and 1990s and the Harry Caray-Stone tandem in the Cubs booth during the same period, but Harrelson and Stone have never really hit it off, some observers say, due to the absence of back-and-forth, give-and-take baseball discussions on air.

That seems to be changing, though.

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