Chicago White Sox

I really hope this is the case

I didn’t get a response back from Reifert

sreifert@chisox.com

But if that’s what Jerry & La Russa told them to do what other choice would our PR function have? I don’t think anyone was naive enough to think this would never slip out, but the reality is most teams don’t hire someone with a pending crime to their name. I honestly can’t recall a situation like this in my years as a sports fan.

I don’t think they hid anything. I just think our PR staff was put in an impossible position. It’s not their job to announce the legal issues of an employee you are hiring, but I’m sure they didn’t want it to come out like this. Unfortunately, this all comes to Jerry and he wanted La Russa regardless and they had to work under those parameters.

Sure but I doubt the drunk former lawyer changes his ways in this version.

You are insane.

The problem is even if La Russa is still a good in-game tactician (which remains to be seen at his age and being out of the game for a decade) he’s lost all credibility with this clubhouse before he even coached a game. He’s a hypocritical, ego driven curmudgeon who has already confirmed why it was a mistake to hire him in the first place. If I’m Tim Anderson and was willing to give him a chance to right his wrong when it comes to his anti kneeling comments, why would I listen to Tony now after all his talk about “sincerity” when he himself is not held to such standards. This latest DUI just proves La Russa is full of shit and is not remotely capable of leading young men in this day & age.

Lol...did you really expect them to announce this during his hiring press conference? “Oh one last thing, Tony was charged with suspicion of DUI in Arizona from an incident back in February. If no one has any other questions, I guess we’ll call it a wrap for today.” You need to stop grasping at straws here and focus on the issue which is Reinsdorf. Hahn & KW shouldn’t have to resign over this, the PR group isn’t “lying” about this, no one in the org is at fault for this except for Jerry. He put the entire club in an impossible spot by putting his selfish interests over those of the organization. The reality is we should have never hired La Russa in the first place and everyone other than Jerry is trying to make the best of a shitty situation.

What in the world are you talking about? They acknowledged they knew about this, they have no obligation to publicize the legal issues of an employee. The issue is they hired La Russa in the first place despite this DUI, not that they failed to announce his personal garbage to social media.

Why even hire him if he planned to step away the moment this was to go public?

Agreed

You think he wins? I got to think Cash is the favorite, but what do I know? Couldn’t be better timing to enrage the fanbase a bit more.

Ricky must be loving all this backlash!

But they didn’t lie here, they actually owed up to knowing. Like no doubt Jerry probably knew eight or nine months ago, he just doesn’t give a fuck about what anyone thinks unfortunately.

Which is sad that Tony’s BS will steal some of the spotlight away from a big moment for Jose.

That’s what they need to do if they decide to keep him

Now would be an excellent time for a Bruce Bochy detour with Sam Fuld brought on as bench coach and Ethan Katz as pitching coach. Act like it never actually happened and hopefully all is forgiven by opening day.

When does the AL MVP winner get announced? Pretty sad that Jose possibly winning will now get partly overly over-shadowed by this bullshit.

He would done it somewhere else? None of this falls on Rick Hahn and you demanding his job is straight up ridiculous.

You agree Rick Hahn will have blood on his hands if he doesn’t resign over this?

If this ends up with La Russa leaving, it’s because Tony decided it wasn’t worth the headache. Jerry is not firing his best bud when he already knew about this.

Yeah, this thread definitely aged nicely.

The problem is Jerry knew and simply didn’t care, but when you’re undermining your own GM and making him look like a total asshole after winning Executive of the Year I guess that should be expected.

Just move to Nashville, it’s much better than becoming a Cubs fan