Stupid Is/Stupid Does, #’s 102 and `03

Say this for the White Sox—they’re depressingly efficient. Rather than lose one game to the Rangers yesterday, they dropped two, by scores of 3-1 and 4-3. The losses add up to a 31-103 record, with a month of baseball left to set the record for futility. Right now, that belongs those lovable Mets of 1962, but here’s the thing. The Sad Sox are three games ahead of the Mets’ pace. And here’s one of the ways they’ve accomplished it, by trading for Miguel Vargas. After keeping Bryan Ramos around for all of a day, the Sox started Vargas both games at third base. About the best you could say is he didn’t get hurt playing there. As for hitting, he went 1-for-7 on the afternoon. That makes Vargas 7-for-69 since coming over from LA. Yup, anyone hitting .101 definitely belongs on this team.