White Sox’ Will Venable managing to stay positive — and mean it — despite ‘L’ parade

White Sox’ Will Venable managing to stay positive — and mean it — despite ‘L’ parade

Ten years ago this week, then-Padres outfielder Will Venable was hitting everything that wasn’t nailed down. Over seven games in early June, he had five multihit outings, a half-dozen extra-base hits — two of them home runs — and a flurry of clutch knocks and runs driven in as a team that would win only 74 times that season was carried through a 5-2 spurt by a 32-year-old left-handed swinger destined to become a first-time manager with the White…