I'm Not Alone

The more New-Mickey Venable speaks, the more he sounds like Old-Mickey Mouse, which is troubling. I thought this season was supposed to be better than last season. I mentioned that Miguel Vargas and Lenyn both made errors in Tuesday’s 12-2 debacle against the Cardinals. This is how Venable described Vargas’s bad throw to first: “He makes that play nine times out of ten there and [it] just was one that he wasn’t able to convert, and we weren’t able to close the door there.” News flash: Any major-league third baseman with a .900 fielding average won’t be a major-league third baseman for long. Except maybe with the White Sox. Then I’m reading Paul Sullivan today, and he offered this gem from Venable after Saturday’s loss in Texas: The feeling that we feel after this game is one that we can feel.” [both quotes in today’s Tribune] Mercy. And look out below. No, wait, we’re there.