Unhappy Ending?

I hate eating at a sports’ bar with the wrong game on, everywhere you look, like last night. You could say that watching Dylan Cease pitch definitely ruined my cheeseburger. The White Sox both lost a game to the Twins and maybe a player in their organization. Yermin Mercedes announced his retirement last night after being pinch-hit for in the sixth inning of a game for the Charlotte Knights. Now, though, I see he’s reported back in uniform with his team. So, we’ll see. Playing major-league baseball is anything but easy, especially if so much of it takes place in another language and as part of a culture you weren’t born into. I can’t imagine how hard it was for Mercedes to accept his demotion from the Sox at the start of the month after being the toast of all baseball in April. Not that the White Sox were in any way responsible. That would be like saying the Sox took advantage of Nicky Delmonico or Daniel Palka when they were hot and then dropped them when it suited their purpose. I mean, who needs those two when you’ve got Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert to promote? Mercedes is just finding out what Delmonico and Palka already have, that you’re only as good as your slash line, if that.