Darrin Jackson Won't Be Leaving Chicago

For those of you who have been sitting on pins and needles awaiting word on the future of former White Sox television color analyst Darrin Jackson, you can remove your hands out from under your ass now. As I predicted when the news first dropped, Darrin will be returning to Chicago this spring, and he'll be taking over Stone's vacant seat in the radio booth.

After talking with various outlets, Darrin Jackson has agreed to return to the White Sox as a radio analyst. Jackson had worked the last nine years in the television booth but his spot is being taken over by Steve Stone, joining play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson.

"This has been my home," Jackson told the Tribune Saturday. "Farmio (play-by-play announcer Ed Farmer) is a friend of mine, and we're going to have fun."

In what was a classy move by Jerry Reinsdorf and the White Sox -- say what you will about Reinsdorf, but he's always been extremely loyal to his employees -- the organization told D.J. to explore any other possibilities that may come his way, and that they'd keep the radio seat open for him until he informed them of what he wanted to do. Jackson talked to people at ESPN and MLB.com, but in the end he decided that the White Sox were where he wanted to be.

Now if only spring training would get here already because I miss baseball. Bad.