Garbage

It’s a bad sign when the team website doesn’t even bother talking about the team’s latest game, which, in the case of the White Sox, was a 12-3 humiliation at the hands of the visiting A’s. But I did read what ex-Sox infielder Micah Johnson is up to these days. For fun, before the game I took a look at the Sox lineup, consisting of five players with batting averages of .194 or lower; that group managed three of the team’s six hits. Andrew Vaughn got himself a three-run homer, Miguel Vargas managed a double, Joshua Palacios a single. Again, hitting coach Marcus Thames has a job why? After a strong Opening Day start, Sean Burke has been god-awful, going 0-3 with a 7.56 ERA. In none of those three starts has Burke made it through the fifth inning? Again, pitching coach Ethan Katz has a job why? Burke gave up five earned runs last night in 3.1 innings. As for the other seven runs, that was the work of Penn Murfee (four) and Mike Clevinger (three). All these numbers add up to two more questions, starting with, GM Chris Getz has a job why again? And Jerry Reinsdorf gets to run a franchise into the ground because why?