Karma, Not Instant

I’m came across this gem from Jerry Reinsdorf in a column by Steve Greenberg in today’s Sun-Times: “Going all the way back to Roland [Hemond] and then Al Goldis, I wanted baseball taught in the minor leagues a certain way where people understood what they were doing, they understood what’s the right thing to do in certain situations, and nobody ever did it right until Chris [Getz] came along.” That’s rich. The man who’s owned the White Sox since 1981 is blaming forty-three years’ worth of subordinates for failing to teach fundamentals. Who hired the subordinates, again? Oh, right. Jerry Reinsdorf. So, answer me this—what did Getz teach Dylan Cease, how to squander a six-run lead? Homeruns from Yoan Moncada, Korey Lee and Andrew Vaughn put the Sox by six against the Royals going into the bottom of the third. Too bad Cease couldn’t make it through the sixth inning. By the time Bryan Shaw finished it, Cease was charged with five runs, four earned. Then came the ninth inning, with Gregory Santos balking in the winning run. But let’s not forget Tim Anderson, whose flying flip of a throw on an easy groundball from Nick Loftin sailed over Vaughn’s head and started the inevitable. I imagine Getz earns a pass here because he didn’t develop either Anderson or Santos. In his postgame comments, manager Mickey Mouse looked more like Bambi, with the headlights bearing down. Reinsdorf thinks he can direct the course of change. Allow me to paraphrase Jim Morrison here—you cannot direct the course of change. It will go where it goes. And right now, it’s headed in the direction of 100+ losses. The players know Mouse is coming back, and this is how they respond. By not firing Mouse now, Reinsdorf and Getz are just delaying the inevitable. Karma’s out there, waiting. The Chairman and his newest underling can run from it, but it will still catch them.