Rongey: Sox still have time to resolve slump

Will the White Sox make a change if the season continues like this?

This seems to be the most common topic of discussion among fans as the White Sox continue a frustrating trend of inconsistency. That conversation usually ranges from the demand for rolling heads to the more thoughtful pondering of the near future of players, coaches, and the manager.

Obviously, it is not uncommon to see organizations waste little time in making staff changes if a promising season begins to slip away, even if that slide happens early. At this point, though, I don't expect any dramatic modifications.

In Chicago, the White Sox entered 2015 with the expectation that they would be an improved team over the 2014 version, and that they might be good enough to contend or win the AL Central.

That really wasn't an outlandish expectation considering the offseason work by the Sox front office and the appearance that the rest of the division had regressed to them.

Through one month of the season, though, the White Sox have looked like anything but a contender.

Naturally, much of the focus of blame has centered on the guy filling out the lineup card, but I'm not convinced general manager Rick Hahn is prepared to react by finding a replacement for Robin Ventura, at least not yet.

Over the years, I've been clear about my opinion of managers in general: I think people dramatically overrate their influence, both good and bad. I don't think big league managers are responsible for a player's low baseball IQ or physical errors.

As much as I'd love to have simple solutions for the hitting woes and rotation's unpredictability, I just don't think Ventura is responsible for Adam Eaton hitting under .200 or for Chris Sale's injury and 5.32 ERA.

But I also understand those things often lead to job loss, deservedly or not.

However, I just don't see that happening in Chicago, especially this early. We're not even to the halfway point of the 60-game benchmark when teams usually say they know what they really are.

At this point, I believe the front office will continue to allow players to work themselves out of their early-season slumps.

I guess that could all change in June, though.

Baltimore was surreal:

What was it like calling a game with an attendance of zero?

The events happening less than two miles from us in Baltimore last week were surreal enough, but seeing literally only three MLB advance scouts in the stands just two minutes before first pitch was as odd as anything I'll ever seen in a ballpark.

In hindsight, though, it occurred to me that by handling play-by-play for that game, it probably wasn't as strange as it must have been for those who were watching and able to just soak it in.

What I mean by that is, in a radio broadcast, you're filling most of the silence with talking. And when you're talking, it's difficult to savor that silence.

One person listening to the game, though, sent me a text message that read, "every ball hit sounds like a 500-foot home run."

That was right after a groundout to second.

• Chris Rongey is the host of the White Sox pregame and postgame shows on WSCR 670-AM The Score. Follow him on Twitter@ChrisRongey and at chrisrongey.com.