It was another one of those weeks. We had a 47-pitch inning in which not one fair ball left the batter’s box. .
.. We had a team score four runs before anyone even reached base.
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And we had a team get so terrified of Aaron Judge , it intentionally walked him two days in a row while the bases were still empty. Advertisement But as Weird and Wild as all that was, there’s only one place to start just about every Weird and Wild column these days. That place is Chicago, where once again .
.. These Sox don’t fit Their fans hide their faces under paper bags.
Their manager made it to 100 games under .500, then got fired . And when they finally won a game , for the first time in nearly four weeks, they ran out of beer to wash it down with.
These are your 2024 Chicago White Sox , chasing history — kind of in the way that “Daddy Day Camp” ( Rotten Tomatoes score: 1 ) chased cinematic history. Until Thursday, I thought that the Weirdest (and Wildest) White Sox news of the week would be: OMG, the White Sox won a game! But they waited for their manager, Pedro Grifol, to make his own kind of history, and only then invited him to clean out his office. So let’s look in once again on these White Sox, if only because when we do, these columns pretty much write themselves.
Did Pedro Grifol get fired Thursday? Or was he actually freed from captivity? I could defend either argument. But that’s not important now. What’s important is that we assess this poor guy’s place in manag.