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Now, that’s more like it, a 14-2 drubbing at the hands of the visiting Mariners. Nothing like watching Touki Toussaint give up five in the first. Toussaint was tagged with seven runs in five innings, the other seven coming from that back-to-the-future bullpen, ca. 1970. And let’s not forget the contributions from the White Sox offense, starting with those fourteen strikeouts. You can see the plate discipline. Let me confess to a guilty pleasure here—I love listening to the postgame comments from manager Mickey Mouse. Last night, Mouse talked about how pitching coach Ethan Katz is trying to get Toussaint to attack the strike zone rather than pitch to spots. Talk about cutting edge. If only one of the reporters had pointed out this is Toussaint’s fifth organization. If he wasn’t listening before, why would he start now? I could be wrong, but that 5.30 ERA hardly indicates someone who’s listening. And how does Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf respond to this mess? He goes mute in light of a report in Chicago Crain’s that the Sox want out of Guaranteed Rate Whatever when their lease expires in six years. It could be to another spot in the city, or the suburbs, or, get this, Nashville. Yeah, I can see cities and towns lining up at the chance to build a home for this circus.