Happy Birthday to Me

I spent my birthday appreciating the people around me and wondering if the timeline for the White Sox rebuild might be a little off.  The rebuild has been official since the 2016 winter meetings; that’s 2-1/2 years.  But don’t forget to throw in the four years of losing baseball that went before.

You’d think in all that time the Sox would’ve come up with a lefthander relief pitcher who wouldn’t give up back-to-back homeruns to left-handed hitters, in extra innings, no less.  But the Sox appear unable to do that.  Oh, they have two good lefties in Aaron Bummer and Jace Fry, but manager Rick Renteria used them already.  So, out comes 30-year old Josh Osich, he of the career 5.21 ERA.  Boom boom, this gift’s for you, Mets, by a score of 5-2 in eleven innings.

Oh, well, it could be worse.  I could feel the way Jose Abreu looks at the plate.  No, wait, that is worse.