It's Good to be the Boss

It’s good to be the boss, like White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. If Reinsdorf decides to hire old pal Tony LaRussa as manager after GM Rich Hahn talks about fresh approaches, managers with recent championship experience, etc., too bad for Hahn. He can hang in the wind, mumble “Never mind” or exit stage right, whichever he wants. All that really matters is, The boss has spoken. My daughter is pretty much an exhausted mess in the wake of yesterday’s LaRussa announcement, tweeting among other things Ted Williams’ head for bench coach and apologizing in advance for all the terrible things she was going to tweet out about the hiring. I’ve tried to get Clare to see the silver lining, that either the two of us (and one hell of a lot of other Sox fans) don’t know baseball or Reinsdorf has made a colossal blunder, and it won’t take long to see which. Such a hothead I’ve raised. She doubts the 76-year old LaRussa will be able to relate to players fifty years younger, especially if they’re given to bat flipping and other emotional displays or have an opinion on politics; LaRussa is on record of disapproving of Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. Me, I want him to come clean about steroids. He never saw Mark McGwire or Jose Canseco shooting up in Oakland? He never heard about it? If so, LaRussa’s sight and hearing left him long before he reached retirement age.