There’s a saying — and Ozzie Guillen just said it again — that good teams win games, and bad teams have meetings.
Guess which thing the White Sox accomplished on Wednesday?
Yes, Kenny Williams gave the Sox a vote of confidence, and the Sox did everything to undermine it, wasting another beautiful John Danks start with piss-poor execution both offensively and defensively.
I liked this Danks quote, a defense of his teammates tinged with a hint of resignation:
“We go into every game trying to throw shutouts anyway,” Danks said. “This season was supposed to be pitching and defense. So, this is the way it worked out. We just haven’t been pitching well enough and scoring enough runs. It’s a team thing.”
Maybe I’m reading too far into it, but that struck me as “I guess I’m going to have to be better than very good.” Hey, I wouldn’t blame him if he were about to throw up his hands, among other things.
Jayson Nix, who made one play Mark Teahen wouldn’t have made with a handsome backhand pick and throw along the third-base line, made a play Teahen would have in the eighth, committing a double-error that allowed the decisive run to score.
Andruw Jones’ 2010 is looking more like his 2009 with every passing day and every weak, unproductive out with runners in scoring position, and incumbent super-slumpers Gordon Beckham, Carlos Quentin and Alexei Ramirez still can’t find traction to make up for Jones’ expected regression.
New faces are finding new ways to kill any hope of momentum, and one wonders how longer Sox executives and coaches can continue to insist they have the talent.
Let me throw two quotes at you that I feel are pretty damning. First, Greg Walker:
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