ESPN instructed us as to the single reason for the White Sox problems way back in 2021...it was all Tony LaRussa's fault. Remember?
Tony was too old, didn't connect with younger players, overvalued discipline, got the job only because he was friends with the owner, failed to embrace the "you be you" philosophy, and won "only" 93 games with a "loaded" roster (the same number as the Phillies are likely to win this year).
Get the gist?
Funny, despite the 2024 historic train wreck of a season, the ESPN panels I've seen now strangely seem reticent to offer a negative word about the Sox' on the field management. See, simple and narrow explanations so often reflect our incorrect biases. Not surprisingly, this awful ESPN take hasn't aged well.
Ahhhh September. It used to be interesting but then again, so was the US Open Tennis Championships - Jimmy, we miss you. Now, with 40% of teams making it into the postseason, it's an annual yawn fest of mediocrity where nobody knows half of the starting lineups of these "winners." I guess "compressed" is one word for it....and a great euphemism for what we are about to see.
Nothing tells you how ridiculous the MLB postseason has become than the statement "...the Cubs were...within 3 games of the wild card." Really???
Just ponder that for a moment.
I know only two things about the wholly irrelevant 2024 Cubs - The only person having a more disappointing season than Cody Bellinger is Scott Boras, and Craig Counsell is the most overpaid person in the country while less than 2% of fans can name the Division-leading Brewers manager (hint: it's Pat Murphy). Yet, as Lloyd Christmas would remind us, "so Neil, you're sayin' there's a chance?"
The MLB Postseason has become a county fair where it's free to enter, you're told on the walkway that everybody who plays is a winner, but only one person leaves with a stuffed animal as everyone else drives home in silence feeling taken.
Let's reclaim our sanity, cut it down to 8 teams, make the regular season AND the Postseason truly meaningful again and appropriately end the affair in October before everyone is wearing flannel pants...
ESPN instructed us as to the single reason for the White Sox problems way back in 2021...it was all Tony LaRussa's fault. Remember?
Tony was too old, didn't connect with younger players, overvalued discipline, got the job only because he was friends with the owner, failed to embrace the "you be you" philosophy, and won "only" 93 games with a "loaded" roster (the same number as the Phillies are likely to win this year).
Get the gist?
Funny, despite the 2024 historic train wreck of a season, the ESPN panels I've seen now strangely seem reticent to offer a negative word about the Sox' on the field management. See, simple and narrow explanations so often reflect our incorrect biases. Not surprisingly, this awful ESPN take hasn't aged well.
Ahhhh September. It used to be interesting but then again, so was the US Open Tennis Championships - Jimmy, we miss you. Now, with 40% of teams making it into the postseason, it's an annual yawn fest of mediocrity where nobody knows half of the starting lineups of these "winners." I guess "compressed" is one word for it....and a great euphemism for what we are about to see.
Nothing tells you how ridiculous the MLB postseason has become than the statement "...the Cubs were...within 3 games of the wild card." Really???
Just ponder that for a moment.
I know only two things about the wholly irrelevant 2024 Cubs - The only person having a more disappointing season than Cody Bellinger is Scott Boras, and Craig Counsell is the most overpaid person in the country while less than 2% of fans can name the Division-leading Brewers manager (hint: it's Pat Murphy). Yet, as Lloyd Christmas would remind us, "so Neil, you're sayin' there's a chance?"
The MLB Postseason has become a county fair where it's free to enter, you're told on the walkway that everybody who plays is a winner, but only one person leaves with a stuffed animal as everyone else drives home in silence feeling taken.
Let's reclaim our sanity, cut it down to 8 teams, make the regular season AND the Postseason truly meaningful again and appropriately end the affair in October before everyone is wearing flannel pants...