AND NOW THE WHITE SOX.....

before i give you my evaluation of the team, just a couple more paragraphs about the manager.

With einstein at the helm, it's like rooting for the titanic. you know it's going to sink but you don't know when..........but it's awfully close. after mismanaging the pitchers and specifically the bullpen ALL SEASON LONG, ROBIN VENTURA has doomed the WHITE SOX into playing the rest of this season with their heads down.

 ANYONE can manage when things are good but the true test is when you hit the dog days and you've fallen out of contention. can you still get your team to play hard??  the sad part for white sox fans is that RICK RENTERIA has his guys playing all 9 innings most days. ALL.....NINE.........INNINGS. they don't have a lot of talent but they keep digging.

 still an outside  contender for a wild card entering august, TEN LOSSES IN FOURTEEN GAMES has sealed the deal and in those ten losses, they've scored a grand total of 17 runs.   still think the team hasn't quit on him?  they're going thru the motions like they did last year and when they fall behind, just like last year, the game is over. disgusting.

the white sox arethe oldest team in the american league but the departures of PAUL KONERKO, ADAM DUNN & RONALD BELLISARIO will save them over a hundred years.

but the sox do have some light at the end of the tunnel for next year with JOSE ABREU, ALEXIE RAMIREZ & CONOR GILLASPIE sitting up well in the infield but second base is a huge offensive problem.

the outfield will be much better next year with a healthy AVASAIL GARCIA playing the entire season in right field and ADAM EATON is fine in center. but DE AZA, VICIEDO and LEURY GARCIA all have either offensive or defensive problems but they will probably have to keep one of them.  the other two will look just fine wearing a different uniform.

pitching is weak with only CHRIS SALE & JOSE QUINTANA showing any consistency but even they look they've quit recently.  they throw hard for 6 innings but they know they won't get any run support or that the bullpen will once again dump gasoline on the fire. HECTOR NOESI is a washout, JOHN DANKS is done and SCOTT CARROLL is the poster child for 'journeyman.' rookie CARLOS RODON will get his feet wet in september and look for him to be the 3rd starter next year.

the bullpen, if healthy, can hold it's own with ZACH PUTNAM, JAKE PETRICIA & MATT LINDSTROM but the rest you can send on long vacations.

catching is also a huge problem. TYLER FLOWERS is a good defensive backstop but you need way more offensively from your catcher.

and then there's the manager...............