As I write this, the White Sox are losing 6-2 to the Kansas City Royals.

A loss would put the White Sox in a tie with the Royals for last place in the AL Central.

A lot of people would like to see the White Sox win a few games and look like the “team of old” so that their hopes of a re-emergence in 2008 will be validated.

Not me, though.

No, I want the White Sox to lose today and continue losing. If I had my way, they’d lose every game from here on out. I say this as an ardent White Sox fan.

Am I crazy? Maybe. Just a little. But, if you haven’t already stopped reading, hear me out.

As I’ve said before, the White Sox are being run by folks who think they’ve put together a top-notch ball club — one more than capable of returning to the World Series. They think when they see someone pitch as well as Jose Contreras did in late 2005, early 2006, that they’re seeing what this pitcher is truly capable of.

Well, that may be true sometimes, but with just about every single White Sox player, it’s simply not the case.

If you want to know how good a player is, take a look at his past performance. If you want to project how good a player will be, take a look at his past performance.

Consider this: Entering 2002, Jermaine Dye had a .272 career batting average. Not too shabby, and certainly a player that belongs in the major leagues in one capacity or another.

Dye batted .315 in 2006 and was an integral part of the White Sox beloved 3-4-5 part of the order. Now, random fluctuations in batting average like this happen, mainly due to luck (his OBP in 2006 also jumped about 50 points from his career norm).

It wouldn’t be surprising to see a player have a monster season in maybe his third or fourth season as a big leaguer, a phenomenon known as a breakout season. The past, in such a case, hasn’t given us a large enough sample to rule it out.

But Dye is 33. Players don’t just break out at 33. Some players have monster break outs when they’re 37, but substance abuse cases aside, you just don’t see this happen.

This is the backbone of the arguments people who predicted the Sox to finish in 4th place or worse this year.

And they are the ones who have been validated. Dye is hitting .245 with an OBP of .308. These are exactly the types of numbers you’d expect Dye to post to bring his averages back to the level we’ve come to know.

And with all the regression the Sox are experiencing this season to bring their individual numbers back to their career averages, my only hope is that somebody in the organization — with any amount of power — opens his/her eyes to what is going on.

It clearly didn’t happen before the White Sox signed Jermaine Dye to that 2-year, $22 million deal. Maybe it’ll happen now.

The White Sox are entering the 9th inning now, down 7-3. A loss would bring their record to 56-70.

Here’s hoping they finish 56-106. That should get someone’s — anyone’s! — attention.

Just, out.

A lot happened inside and outside of the respective clubhouses of the White Sox and Cubs yesterday.

If you haven’t heard, Jermaine Dye signed a two-year extension, locking him up through 2009 with a mutual option for 2010.

Kenny Williams and the White Sox seem lost. And a Kenny without a plan is scary.

They’ve re-signed Dye and Mark Buehrle for the next few years and they’ve got one truly good looking prospect in Josh Fields. That’s it. The entire rotation and bullpen is a disaster and, besides Jim Thome and Paul Konerko, the rest of the lineup is miserable. Juan Uribe, Darin Erstad, Scott Podsednik, and Jerry Owens are all extremely bad at baseball.

There’s a few things troubling me even more than the horrible hitting. Obviously, the bullpen is a wreck. I’m aware that good bullpens can come and go even with the same personnel (White Sox 2005 bullpen was stellar, despite a conglomeration of horrible pitchers), but other than Bobby Jenks, they’re just horrible. All of them.

The White Sox starting pitching is equally troublesome. Jose Contreras has returned to his New York Yankee ways. Is it possible Don Cooper didn’t find anything wrong with Contreras’ delivery and he just turned it on for a year? I think so. But who knows.

John Danks is bad. Jon Garland is bad. Surprisingly, Javier Vazquez has been adequate.

But what does Kenny do? He signs two guys to build the team around. But, and this may come as a surprise to him, he has no other pieces! That’s it. It doesn’t matter how good your 3-4-5 is if the rest of the starters have an OBP under .320 and a slugging percentage under .400.

I’ve even heard that the White Sox are somewhat interested in picking up Erstad’s $3.5 million option. God help us. He’s AT BEST a bench warmer all season on just about any other team. Hilariously enough, one radio announcer called Erstad, and I quote, “The type of player a team likes to have.”

Yea, if I were running a team I’d definitely rather have his 0.1 VORP than anyone elses. Oy.

How exactly does one measure how much ‘experience’ and ‘leadership’ a player brings? I’ll tell you how. They lie. There’s no way to determine a player’s influence on another, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to play Erstad over a guy with better numbers, simply because he brings that ‘intangible’ to the table.

Williams doesn’t seem like the man with the plan he once was. I’m cinching up and hunkering down for another 88-year lull.

Just, out.