You Don't Say

Ex-White Sox manager Mickey Mouse—and doesn’t that feel good to say?—was forever telling reporters how he was in regular communication with team owner Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Chris Getz. How interesting, then, for Getz to cite “some different belief systems” among his reasons for showing Mouse the door. Like confusing losing with winning, I guess. Anyway, the guessing game around the next Sox manager has started, with everyone short of A.J. Pierzynski and Ozzie Guillen possibilities; sorry, A.J. and Ozzie, you guys may want the job, but Reinsdorf doesn’t want you. Remember, absolute loyalty first, then knowing how to talk less in public than the Sphynx. The thing of it is, anyone’s an improvement over Mouse, who set the bar so low it’s buried ten feet down. I’ll be ecstatic if interim manager Grady Sizemore can earn a split with the two games coming up against the Cubs.