No, It Didn't

This is why I call myself a detached, as opposed to an enthusiastic, White Sox fan.  The other day, Sox GM Rick Hahn told reporters in San Diego for the winter meetings, “This whole process started about three years ago now.”  Oh, really?

In other words, the rebuild officially kicked off in 2017, or the 2016 offseason when the Sox traded Chris Sale and Adam Eaton.  But what do you call the period from 2013 to 2016, losing for the heck of it?  And what do you call the period from 2009 to 2019, the era without playoffs?  No, “eleven, not forty, years in the playoff desert” has a nicer ring to it, encompassing the suffering at least some Sox fans have felt, lo, these past years.

With Hahn you never know; conversational English isn’t his first language.  Maybe he meant to say “three plus four” or “three as part of eleven.”  It’s the holiday season.  I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.  But come the first of the year, I’ll become as unforgiving as Chicago in January.