Cluck-cluck

Up until yesterday, it was all rainbows and unicorns for the White Sox in Glendale. Everyone looked ready to go; the fielders were fielding, pitchers pitching; hitters hitting. Manager Mickey Mouse even came up with a snappy acronym to embody the new team mentality, FAST, meaning a fearless, aggressive, selfless, technical (???) approach to the game. But then they ruined everything by going out and playing a game. The pitchers didn’t pitch (especially Jessie Chavez, who looked every day of his 40 years while giving up six runs in the first to the Cubs) and the hitters didn’t hit, outside of minor leaguer Tim Elko, who homered in what I think was his first-ever spring-training at-bat. Big guy, right-handed, someone to cheer for until he gets sent down. But a 8-1 beatdown from your crosstown rivals? Not how I’d want to start the season. Way too SLOW: sad, lame, old, worrisome.