Requiem For Some Laundry

I'm not the first to say this on the sports blogosphere, but it's worth noting: The Chicago White Sox are bad this year. Really bad. This team merely two years removed from winning a World Series title have aged quickly this season (four everyday players are on the DL right now) and their pitching is not in the same place it was during their championship campaign. Earlier this week, the White Sox took a 6-2 lead into the eighth inning against the Baltimore Orioles. Game over, right? Nope. The Orioles scored three runs in the eighth and two runs in the ninth off of Sox relievers (closer Bobby Jenks officially blew the save in the ninth and took the loss) and won the game 6-5. But here's another scary statistic: The White Sox were 4-14 in interleague play. You know, The National League's Exercise In Futility That The American League Wins Every Year Not Named The All-Star Game. They only won FOUR games against the NL this year! And it's not like they had tough Interleague opponents, either - They played the Cubs (lost five of six, getting swept in the series in their own ballpark), Astros (lost 2 of 3), Phillies (lost all 3), Pirates (lost 2 of 3), and Marlins (lost 2 of 3). Murderers' Row Of Mediocrity right there...

Possibly the scariest statistic of them all: As of today, they only have one more win than the Kansas City Royals. One. That's it.

And then there was yesterday. Yesterday, the Minnesota Twins visited the south side of Chicago for a doubleheader and kicked the crap out of them. The first game was a football score - Minnesota 20, Chicago 14. The Sox committed five errors and the Twins DIDN'T score in the sixth and ninth innings. The scary thing is it would've been more lopsided if a Twins batter didn't ground into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the eighth.

But that was the first game. But what happened in the nightcap? Simply put, the Twins kept hitting but the White Sox stopped. Morneau went deep three times (hat trick?) as the Twins piled up one more home run (six) than Sox hits (five) in game two. Twins 12, Sox 0.

If that wasn't enough, the White Sox will have to deal with BOOF! in today's game. Good luck to 'em. Poor southsiders - they gotta deal with Cubs fans all summer long 'cause the better Chicago team is playing in Wrigleyville this year...

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