(Pre-) June Swoon for Chisox

Yes, it's time to go back and check on the White Sox (sorry, Dbrolaw).

It's time to talk who to trade before the deadline.

They gave us Sox fans hope by winning six straight, two straight series, over the Bosox & Twins, then came home against the Cubs and...

We are on 7 losses in a row and counting.   The Cubs?!?!? Lost 3 in a row to the Cubs?@?!?!  Oh, just kill me.

Now they are on the West Coast.  And Sox fans know what that means.  Not since Ray Milland and Jane Wyman (Mrs. Ronald Reagan 1 for those of you too young to remember her) has there been a group that gets lost more than the Sox on the West Coast.  Many years' hopes are lost out there in the middle of the Eastern or Central time zone night.  Angels, A's, Mariners...loss, loss, loss, loss, okay, maybe a win.

Adam Dunn has been horrible.  He's hitting .163.  Should I say "again?"

Jeff Keppinger has been barely serviceable.  We didn't pay him the off-season free agent money for .232.

Paul Konerko is hitting .240 with 5 homers and 21 rbis.  This is over a third of the way through the season.  That's a 14 homer, 60 rbi year for your 4 or 5 hitter.  Ouch.

Simply, they are last in the AL in batting, thanking the Mariners for keeping it close, last in runs scored by half a run a game.

Hope? I got little.  Connor Gillespie looks like a keeper as a rookie at third.  Alex Rios is playing decently.  Alexei Ramirez is having what is probably hitting what he should, .268, but no power, no RBIs.

Okay, I have no hope for the everyday lineup.

The starting pitching is good.  The ERA is 6th in the league, good enough to win divisions.

So, what do we do?

I think we find someone to take Dunn's contract off us.  Even if we have to eat some.  Get a good AA prospect for him -- a hitter.  A corner guy who can give us 30 and 80 and .275 a couple years from now.

Maybe we lose Rios.  For the right price. He's on some lists as trade bait.  We're last in runs and trying to be last in the Central.  We are keeping him for what?

And we hope for an off-season where we build a lineup from that right now looks like a scene I saw the other night on Amazon Instant -- Jeeves & Wooster in "Kidnapped" -- with a whole minstrel band.  All with banjos.  Yes, really. (It must have been funnier when Woodhouse wrote it in the '30s)

I hope they win 6 in a row again.  And again.  But I don't see them giving Sale, Peavy, Danks, Axelrod, Quintana enough help to win a bunch of games.

I feel like a Cubs fan, thinking about next year in June.  Dammit.