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After falling to the Pirates 9-4 Sunday afternoon, the White Sox go into the All-Star break on a four-game losing streak. They have now been swept thirteen times this season, which is what you would expect from a 27-71 team. That’s two games better than the ’62 Mets, by the way. The team’s record seems to have caught manager Mickey Mouse by surprise. Mouse is nothing if not the walking definition of cluelessness. “This is not something we planned for. It’s something we really didn’t expect.” [quote from story in today’s Sun-Times] Funny, I did. The worst manager in franchise history went on to say, “You can’t pinpoint it to one area because there have been times where we’ve made mistakes mentally and physically on the field defensively. There have been times we have not executed a game plan.” They also can’t hit, at the bottom or one or two above it in most categories for all thirty teams. Other organizations would use the break to get a start on the inevitable housecleaning. Don’t count on the Sox following the lead of other organizations. It’s not the Reinsdorf way. I mean, who would the Chairman have to text and talk on the phone with if he got rid of Mouse?