Tick-tock, the clock doesn’t stop.
The major league trade deadline arrives Tuesday at 5 p.m., and the list of presumed buyers around the league is long. The White Sox are on it, even though to this point they’ve underwhelmed at every turn and seem no more capable of breaking free of .500 than they did in 1997, when they infamously waved the white flag at the deadline to the great chagrin of their fans. Anybody else remember how fun that was? No need to answer out loud.
The Sox could use some bullpen help and some left-handed hitting, or anything else that might inject urgency into a team that seems destined for — at best — a clobbering from a real World Series contender in October.