Back to the Future

By rallying yesterday to beat the Royals 6-5 on a wild pitch, the White Sox “improved” to 6-10 on the (thankfully, still young) season. Hmm, 6-10, sounds familiar. Back in 2023, then rookie manager Mickey Mouse posted the very same record. A year later, with Mouse working his magic, the Sox fell to 2-14 before Mouse was shown the door in August. His successor, Vibes Venable (Note: I will be using this moniker until Venable gets the team to ten games over .500), had a 4-12 record after sixteen games last season. You could say that progress is in the eyes of the beholder here. I’ll leave it to my daughter Clare to assess that progress. “At least they’re doing things,” she said yesterday. “It’s not like before, when they’d lost 80 games by July, and then said, ‘Ooh, what happened?’ Now, they’re doing stuff.” More on that “stuff” tomorrow.