Yeah, Right

In today’s story on the team website, White Sox manager Mickey Mouse talks about team “energy,” how it comes and goes and the importance of maintaining it. Whatever. All I know is that Mouse’s team is getting its clock cleaned in Colorado. Friday, the Mouseketeers lost 14-1, yesterday, 11-5. If this organization operates with a rhyme or reason, it’s a mystery to me. All I see is a bunch of sleepwalkers. Take Yoan Moncada. Please. For the month of August, Moncada is hitting .220 (13-for-59) with one homerun and four RBIs. Over in Miami, ex-Sox Jake Burger is batting .359 (23-for-64) with two homers and eleven RBIs. And you know how fast Moncada is on the bases, right? Well, he’s scored four runs so far this month, compared to eleven for Burger. The only Sox player showing the requisite energy is veteran Elvis Andrus, who’s pretty much come back from the dead. Through July, Andrus was hitting an anemic .208. He’s up to .241 as of last night, thanks to batting a Burger-esque .375 in August. That comes with two homers, fourteen RBIs and nine runs scored. I’m sure Andrus wants to play next year, and this is his way of showing that he has something left in the tank. Good for him. Of course, he won’t be playing for the Sox, to which I can only say, lucky son of a gun.