What's the Buzz?

Well, dinner at my daughter’s yesterday was certainly enlightening. Along a nice meal, I enjoyed a big helping of White Sox gossip. According to Clare (and whatever her sources were), the Marlins did not come calling for Jake Burger. No, they wanted Eloy Jimenez instead; the Sox countered with Burger. I won’t risk repeating myself to the point of embarrassment how this organization is clueless about the kind of player its fan base wants. Oops, I just did. Clare also fingered the suspected cancers in the Sox clubhouse—Eloy, along with Yoan Moncada and Yasmani Grandal. If true, there’s some cause for hope. Grandal is gone the second his contract expires at the end of the season. As for Moncada, I doubt his back will let him be on the active roster very much next year. That leaves Eloy, and the best way to handle him—barring a trade for Burger—would be to keep him healthy, which would keep him productive, which would keep him happy and waving to the cameras. Say what you will about the man, but he has one beautiful swing. Clare had nothing on the future of manager Mickey Mouse, who spent his one-game suspension from Sunday’s “Thrilla on the Shores of Lake Erie” watching Monday’s game from the owner’s box at Guaranteed Rate Whatever. The Sox beat the Yankees, 5-1. Mouse was back in the dugout last night, for a 7-1 loss. Just a coincidence, right?