Baseball is a Weird Game

It's been a while since my last post, and I'm sure the only people that have noticed are myself and possibly my Mom. She's a good lady, but most of what I post is lost on her. I just wind up catching slack for the occasional F-bomb, so basically I just post this stuff for my own satisfaction.

Anyways, getting back to the post title. This has been a weird season to be a White Sox fan. Watching tonight's game, I actually thought they might intentionally walk Brent Lillibridge to face Adam Dunn. Read that last sentence again, and then give it a genuine thought for a couple seconds. It's a supremely ridiculous though, right? But is it? Nope....and that's why the 2011 season, to this point, is absolutely insane.

Our best hitter is Brent Lillibridge (ratio-wise) and our best pitcher is Phil fucking Humber. Our worst hitter is Adam Dunn and our worst starter is John Danks. This is a season that makes zero sense in any plausible manner. I keep expecting things to go back to normal and they just don't.

So I guess the question is...what do the Sox do? The Sox are 7 games out of first place, but this isn't a normal 7 games out. This is 7 games out of a team that is destined to crash and burn. The Sox, meanwhile, sport a lineup littered with underachievers that are absolutely crushing the team. Alex Rios is an absolute dud. I have zero faith in him, and in my mind, he is the biggest waste of talent since Josh Hamilton decided he liked cocaine more than hitting dingers.

Adam Dunn...I expected an adjustment period, and I think he's going to be fine in the long run. Gordon Beckham seems like he's destined to be a slow starter. He's back to being productive. Brent Morel seems to have overcome his standard struggle at the new level, and Juan Pierre is...well...Juan Pierre. God love 'em, he does his best.

When you have a lineup chalk full of underachievers with faulty swings on an almost annual basis...you'd think the hitting coach would face some form of accountability. But this is the White Sox, so that's out of the question. We're just going to have to deal with the fact that Greg Walker isn't going to get fired, and hope for the best. We have the single worst hitting coach in baseball.

Anyways...I'm tired of ranting. I've reached no conclusions, but take what I've said for what its worth.

Go Sox.