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The Chicago White Sox , like many other MLB teams, usually have a certain motto or phrase each season that's supposed to represent their team for that year.

The Chicago White Sox are continually morphing from a lowly underachieving team with a disastrously poor offense and a bloated payroll to a literal laughing stock, especially after dropping their fourth straight game, their third straight to the lowly Houston Astros .

Box W:D.Keuchel L:H.Santiago S:J.Veras HR: CWS- A.De Aza HOU- J.Castro Chicago WSox Top 1st - UMPIRES: Home,Jordan Baker; First, Dana DeMuth; Second, Paul Nauert; Third, Doug Eddings; - Alejandro De Aza struck out swinging.

The state of the White Sox is such that in losing a couple of games to the Astros I find myself wishing Houston was still in the national league, and that this was an interleague game.

The White Sox announced Saturday that they have agreed to terms with 27 of their 40 selections from the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, including each of the top 11 picks.

Erik Bedard pitched six solid innings, and Jose Altuve hit a go-ahead RBI single to give the Houston Astros a 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.

Bedard yielded three hits and one run with six strikeouts to bounce back from his previous outing when he allowed six runs in 4 2-3 innings.

Erik Bedard pitched six solid innings, and Jose Altuve hit a go-ahead RBI single to give the Houston Astros a 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.

MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH It still wasn't a big enough sample size for White Sox manager Robin Ventura to call his terrible offense cured, but there are at least some signs that the tunnel has a glimmer of light at the end of it.

Shortstop Alexei Ramirez confessed that he wasn't anticipating that J.P. Arencibia would hit a grounder up the middle that he eventually would snag to transform a potential two-run single into an impressive third out in the eighth inning Monday night.

But 11 hits and home runs from Conor Gillaspie and Adam Dunn couldn't make up for sloppy fielding and mistake pitches from closer Addison Reed and Ramon Troncoso .

White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said he doesn't know where the team's farm system ranks among the other organizations in the league, but he thinks it's serving its purpose just fine.

Chicago White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko greets Adam Dunn at home after Dunn's three-run home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey, also scoring Konerko and Alexei Ramirez, during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 10, 2013, in Chicago.

It sounds like a bizarre mid-season episode for our crew of troubled anti-heroes; something outside the primary plot arc that has to result in the death of an ancillary cast member just to convey some degree of seriousness to the viewing audience.

White Sox second-round pick Tyler Danish is the perfect example of how comfortable the team's front office and scouting department have gotten with each other.

After this long stretch of discontent and disillusionment with the White Sox way, where every part of the aging core and organizational decision-making process has been cast in an unflattering light, it's only right that an old friend would come back to shake away the South Side misery for a day.

One bad pitch can be fatal, and for Chris Sale, it came in the sixth inning Friday night against Oakland.

MLB Team Report - Chicago White Sox - INSIDE PITCH The Sox have been very obvious in what kind of team they've been trying to build the past five years, concentrating heavily on position players with speed and great athletic ability.

A native Chicagoan who was a Cubs fan, Adam Rosales took a little extra satisfaction Thursday night when he homered in the 10th inning.

Bench coach Mark Parent made no secret of the Chicago White Sox's wish to have left-hander Jose Quintana pitch deep into Thursday night's game against Oakland.