Paul Sullivan: White Sox miss out on Machado, but sometimes free-agent misses can turn out to be blessings

Let's blame this Manny Machado swing and miss by the White Sox on the polar vortex.

When SoxFest was going on last month with a wind chill below zero, the Padres were just beginning to court Machado, who already had been to Chicago to meet with Sox brass.

The difference in temperature between the frozen tundra of Chicago and the world's most pleasant climate in San Diego was hard to overlook. As I wrote at the time: "Do the Sox Math."

Now the slow-motion