TCS Morning 10: Familiar disgrace

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It just wouldn't be a White Sox season without the eventual slide toward full-blown humiliation. It just wouldn't have their natural full dramatic sweep from beginning with moderate goals of slipping into the playoffs via some lowered bar for performance, quickly dousing that already jaded optimism with a disappointing start, before capping their demise with some season-ending demolition to confirm that the Sox haven't merely underperformed, but are simply in another class from any team any non-diehard would waste a casual glimpse at.

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The Catbird Seat's 2015 MLB Season Predictions

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Sick of reading what other people think is going to happen this season?

Yes? Oh, well this is awkward...

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Every team in the AL sucks

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Heading into the 2015 regular season, it seems that most every American League team fancies themselves as a contender. As I’ve talked about earlier, this center-heavy distribution of talent should have interesting implications on the playoff race. This post is not about that. This post is me being a mean person who sees the flaws in everything. This post is about how every team in the American League will finish below .500, mathematical impossibilities be damned*.

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White Sox reportedly will trade for Jeff Samardzija

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Jeff Samardzija, 29, coming off a career year in 2014, offers promise of being the actually good and actually right-handed starter the White Sox have been looking for to place between Chris Sale and Jose Quintana at the top of the rotation. Last year's breakout performance of a 2.99 ERA and 202 strikeouts over 219.2 innings optimistically was the culmination of three years of Samardzija looking transformed from an erratic reliever to someone who can strikeout a batter-per-inning, multiple times through the rotation.

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Take One In Oakland, Please? - Game Preview & Lineups 5/14

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The White Sox's personal House of Horrors has proved to be just that as they have dropped the first two of a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics, last night by a miserable 11-0 margin.

Or, ya know, the A's are just a much better team than the White Sox.

Either way, the White Sox will look to salvage the series finale and snap a four-game losing streak with Wednesday's afternoon tilt at O.co Coliseum.

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Patience Against Pomeranz - Game Preview & Lineups 5/13

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Early on in the season, the White Sox rotated between wins and losses on a pretty regular basis, which is the recipe with which they've been able to hover around the .500 mark for most of the season.

Lately, however, the team has gone through a spell of rotating between three or four consecutive losses with three or four consecutive wins. After losing four straight to Detroit and Cleveland, the White Sox promptly won four straight against the Cubs. Now, they're on one of their down turns, having lost three straight after last night's 5-4 defeat to the Oakland Athletics in the first of a three-game series.

On Tuesday, they'll try to turn get back in the win column when they face left-hander Drew Pomeranz at 9:05 p.m. at O.co Coliseum.

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