Chicago White Sox

Does Boston want to make this trade?

Hire Sam Fuld as bench coach and let him manage the clubhouse. We’re stuck with La Russa as our in-game decision maker for better or worse, but let’s limit his interactions with the actual players and perhaps his risk is reduced.

Fuck yes!! Hopefully Katz will tolerate curveballs unlike his predecessor!!

The problem is he’s only got one year of control left and I can’t imagine he’ll come that cheap.

If you can’t get Bauer then I fully agree. Go with the best possible lineup and add two B & C tier starters in free agency. Springer + Kluber + Quintana for example would be fine by me.

This is just stupid.

Again, this is all Reinsdorf. The team doesn’t agree with him and has been dealt an impossible hand. They can’t come out and say “look this is a shitty hire but what can you do when he’s the bosses’ guy?”. The front office is praying that with time that this dies down or that La Russa decides to step down from all the hostility (very unlikely). Not saying this is a good strategy, but it’s really hard for a PR team to justify an irrational decision.

At least we know Jerry’s handle now

Because they hope adding George Springer will temper emotions

There’s the final confirmation that we are stuck with him. If I was a member of the White Sox ownership group I’d be livid right now, but I guess that’s what they deserve for giving Jerry unilateral power to do whatever he wants.

Technically pitching, 3rd base, & assistant hitting coach, but none of the other guys have been confirmed back yet.

Oh he came out and said that once “they” deemed La Russa was a strong possibility they deviated greatly from his original managerial search plan.

Rick Hahn literally informed the media of what he was looking for in a manager at our end of season press conference and implied there would be an extensive interview process. A few hours later, Reinsdorf then went to Bob Nightengale and told him La Russa was a favorite for the job despite not exhibiting many of the qualities Rick was looking for. I’m sure almost everyone was blindsided by this as it appears Jerry orchestrated this all on his own, at least initially.

I signed it

Good way to help mitigate the La Russa PR nightmare

Again, we need to stop equating the front office with Jerry Reinsdorf. They are not the same thing when it comes to views on La Russa.

Not sure what the first statement has to do with anything, but cool I guess? As for the second, no one is saying strip his accomplishments or his HOF record. We just don’t want La Russa as our manager right now for obvious reasons and the DUI is really the final nail in the coffin. And this goes beyond just driving drunk, but rather the fact that La Russa has deemed himself the judge & jury of sincerity and meanwhile is unable to live up to his word. He’s an ego-driven hypocrite and that’s not going to fly in our clubhouse.

Of course it would have.

You seem political when you decide to bring the kneeling issue into this.

I agree, but KW went out and reluctantly signed Kotsay. Having a lifetime contract with Jerry has its perks as long as you’re willing to deal with the occasional bullshit.

It can’t hurt? Do you remember the last time he was here?

I’d wager than Hahn is still the primary decision maker, but the risk is if La Russa pulls an Ozzie by saying he wants Molina as part of his rotating DH and Reinsdorf making Rick accommodate.

By who? Are there even any manager openings at the moment?

And the worst part is the Sox were on the brink of becoming Chicago’s team for the next half decade. They could have captured thousands of young impressionable fans and turned them into lifelong supporters. That could still happen obviously, but hiring La Russa has put that in jeopardy and for no good reason. It’s literally one of the worst business decisions I have seen in some time.

It’s definitely not true, but what can you do when the boss has made his mind up?