What He Said and What He Meant

Hours before the White Sox went out and lost their fifteenth straight game (8-5 to the Royals, the bullpen giving up six runs in the eighth), Sox GM Chris Getz said “it was a bit hurtful, quite honestly” how Garrett Crochet’s agency has gone public about Crochet’s desire for a contract extension before he’d be willing to pitch in the offseason. If only Getz were honest (but, then, he wouldn’t be working for Jerry Reinsdorf, now would he?). Because what Getz meant to say was that Crochet had violated the second tenet of being in White Sox Land—thou shalt not conduct any business whatsoever in public. Of course, Crochet had already violated the Prime Tenet—in all things loyalty to the Reinsdorf—by turning down a contract extension. He should be gone, but now it’s harder. Boo-hoo.