The White Sox did not make the playoffs in the 2010s. They did not win so much as 82 games in any season after 2012.



While there’s some optimism for the future, even that was built upon more or less conceding the last three seasons for the sake of a rebuild, that the plan up to that point wasn’t working and the Sox were “mired in mediocrity.”



Dunking on old mistakes that have already been dunked on is not a very useful genre, but how else does someone talk about this past decade of White Sox baseball? It was a failure. A top-10 list of memorable moments of the decade is inevitably marked by the points where walls caved in, success slipped away or was pushed back until … well, we’ve yet to find out.



In fact, maybe that’s the list: 10 reasons why the last 10 seasons of White Sox fell short. Eventually they all double back to the same reason.



1. Fruitless drafts



The last three seasons have all...