Sports columnists
and whatever their TV version is called are among the most irritating human
beings on the face of the earth.
Yesterday, one of them declared the worst thing in sports is “allegiance
to a boring team” and the “White Sox are a boring team and have been for
years.” Therefore, they have to blow
everything up and start from scratch the way the Cubs did. This coming from a guy who admits he
“questioned almost everything the Cubs did as they went through their
rebuild.” In other words: I was wrong then, but not now. Yeah, I want to trade Chris Sale based on
that rationale.
Sox fans are
somewhere between skeptical and numb because they know more than Mr. Columnist,
who couldn’t be bothered to consider his position. The White Sox are oranges—or stinking
garbage—to the Cubs’ apples. Their
ownership and front office haven’t shown they can string together smart
decisions the way the Ricketts family and Theo Epstein have. They get it right on Sale and Adam Eaton only
to get it laughingly wrong on Adam Dunn and Adam LaRoche and Jeff Samardzija
and Jeff Keppinger and Wil Ohman and…
Now here’s the
thing about trading Sale, Eaton or Jose Quintana to the Dodgers, Nationals or
Red Sox. Those teams have pretty consistently
finished higher than the Sox, so those prospects they’d be offering the Sox already
had a chance to draft and decided not. That
makes the Sox front office just like Mr. Columnist, wrong the first time but
not now.
Forgive me if I
don’t share in their confidence.
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