Flush, Flush

Bad baseball teams find a way to lose. If there was ever any question about it, yesterday showed once and for all the White Sox are a bad baseball team. A good team doesn’t blow a 5-1 lead going into the eighth inning or let a .191 hitter get his first homerun in 194 at-bats to lead off the ninth or put the tying run on base by catcher’s interference or give up a two-out, two-run double for a 6-5 loss. A good team doesn’t have a manager call the loss a “heartbreaker” and talk about flushing it in order to move on. (All that flushing of detritus isn’t good for the plumbing, BTW.) A good team doesn’t have a manager who uses Yasmani Grandal to pinch hit for the catcher because, if Grandal gets on without homering, he becomes a liability on the basepaths. A good team doesn’t waste seven innings of one-run ball from Lucas Giolito, thus giving Giolito all the incentive he needs to leave even if GM Rick Hahn were to make a sincere, albeit lowball, effort to resign him. But, like I said, the Sox aren’t a good team.