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TORONTO -- White Sox manager Pedro Grifol has seen some slow starts. He was a quality control coach for the 2018 Royals when they started 7-21. The next year Kansas City began the season 9-20. Both teams were eliminated from contention by August. For some teams, that sluggish start feels like a death sentence -- the season is over just as it started. But for Grifol’s 2023 White Sox, the feeling is different. Despite dropping a seventh-straight contest with an 8-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday, Grifol doesn’t sense any quit. “I've been on teams that you go through a streak like this and you know the season’s over,” Grifol said. “This doesn’t feel like that. Doesn’t feel like that.” Wednesday’s contest was the latest loss for a White Sox squad that sits at 7-18. Chicago hasn’t won a series yet this year, or even won back-to-back games; the club is 2-12 over its last 14 contests. It’s an undeniably sideways start for a team hoping to contend, but it’s not game over. Eight teams this century have started the season with 10 or fewer wins in their first 25 games and gone on to make the playoffs. The 2019 Washington Nationals famously started out 19-31 and turned the ship around to win 93 contests, make the playoffs and win the World Series. The key to that season turnaround, for Grifol, is learning from the slump. The first-year skipper didn't anticipate his opening campaign starting this way and he's had to adapt. Grifol has been hard on himself, he said, working to make adjustments amid the slide. He’s asking players to do the same, preaching more patience at the plate, aggressiveness on the mound and cleaner play all around. “Adversity is an education,” Grifol said. “How you deal with adversity is also extremely important.” Mitch Bannon, mlb.com

Let's find every Ohtani relative in the world, employ them and offer $650 million for a long term deal as well as for him to recruit the best Korean Japanese and Taiwanese players to join him in Chicago...trade the full 25 man Sox active roster for Trout Rendon Adell and the entire Angels' farm system AND a deal in place to move Disney World Florida and a new Stars Wars-themed amusement park right next to the new Sox stadium. Jerry... he gone! Hahn gonged and gone.

https://southsideshowdown.com/posts/3-current-players-the-chicago-white-sox-have-mistreated-01gywdmfsmwf Can't say that any of these conclusions are on point... especially about Burger and Sheets. Colas pretty much all realistic Sox fans expected to struggle... maybe not quite THIS much though. Ofc further magnified by absolute black holes at the very bottom of the lineup.

Is Lynn going to have the 5-7 course steak and potatoes meal before his next start? Will fans start posting what Stone eats on air and afterwards if they run into him and Benetti on the Michelin 2* restaurant circuit...? Will Lynn go after Stone on the team flight....like the last days with him and Skip on the Northside?

The Rays are going to be out for blood after losing two in a row at home to HOU and also losing that amazing win streak. Hunter Brown really shut them down.

Yikes!

That sounds like a viral campaign with lots of in stadium handheld signage potential...much better than wasting money on billboards. Berto from Cicero or Berwyn?

wonder if he wrote parts of that out...? seemed to have a pretty natural flow always seemed like he was tearing up there near the end

that goes unsaid/unspoken...since I wanted Yoshida for $15 million more

The collared jerseys were... at least interesting. Which is more than one can say for the team itself. Also, love the way season ticket sales people are hyping Pedro Grifol when they don't know the first thing about him or his background. That trip in the car to the OD game with his very good friend Eduardo Perez in Houston will end up as his lone career highlight...unfortunately.

Benetti and Stone can't get away from this mess fast enough...Len Kasper has to be rethinking his move as well at this point. Gordon Beckham with the full time gig over Pods or AJ or basically anyone else will be the absolute lowest point.

At least the suffering is roughly 30 minutes shorter this season. Thanks, Theo Epstein!

They have somehow outdone the Reds and A's for overall ineptitude and oblivious-ness to the mood of the fanbase.

Already better than Sox bullpen lol... just by donning that Rays' jersey. two Ks

93-95 range. All sliders to Abreu lol. At least we don't have to watch the sad final big league years of Jose in a Sox uniform like Konerko. More of a show the fastball get outs with the slider approach now.

Gallo>>>Conforto

Watch Burdi win Comeback Player of the Year... well not that he left much of a big league imprint in the first place.

Twins have a huge opportunity to put some space between themselves and the Guardians...

We're already onto Jaws 3... or The MEG w/ Jason Statham.

Must sign Danny Tartabull...

New Era Cap Co. just being petty here... could have simply designed a similar one. Baseball always trying to find ways to remind everyone let the average fan who picks the game as their favorite sport is a 59 year old. https://www.yahoo.com/news/goodbye-big-hat-braves-told-165753142.html

The emptiest average since the Madrigal Years...

Also has lost 60-75% of his previously projected value, but they still have to fill out a rotation in 2024-25 somehow...

TLR is somewhere with that smug look on his face saying I told you so... that seemed to start with the back and forth with Hahn through media channels over Kimbrel's acquisition/lack of fit on the team.