Tough Luck

Three pitches after Steve Stone described White Sox starter Mike Soroka’s first five innings of work as “brilliant” and full of “soft contact,” the homeruns started. Eduoard Julien went first, followed by Ryan Jeffers on the first pitch he saw. There would be another three Minnesota solo shots spread over the seventh and eighth innings in a 6-3 Sox loss. That’s a 3-22 record for our streaking Chi-Sox, seven losses in a row with a three-game series with the Rays coming up. Ten in a row, anyone? Mickey Mouse has taken to gibbering about how he welcomes the pressure that comes with his job and his regular conversations with Chris Getz and Jerry Reinsdorf. A cynic would be inclined to say those two could be rubbing off on Mouse in all the wrong ways. I, of course, am not a cynic. Mouse stinks all on his own. Reinsdorf wants a new stadium, with the public picking up most of the tab. The Bears want a new stadium, with the public absorbing around half the cost. The Bears unveiled plans at a news conference on Wednesday, then followed that up Thursday by choosing quarterback Caleb Williams with the first pick in the NFL draft. That’s how you win a public relations’ war, even—especially—if it means the taxpayers lose out in the end. Over that same period, the Sox dropped another two games while their manager gibbered and their owner made like the Sphynx.