The White Sox’ season, for all intents and purposes, is over, and it sounds like everyone has agreed to blame Tony La Russa for this. I’m on board. Let’s pile on.
La Russa’s a convenient scapegoat, but his original hiring does betray something important and disastrous about the White Sox as an organization, and that’s that Jerry Reinsdorf has given himself a lot of power. It’s one thing to be as big an idiot as Jerry Reinsdorf. It’s another to be a big enough idiot to let Jerry Reinsdorf call the shots. Clearly, Reinsdorf is in the latter category. Not only is he himself, but he’s letting himself make decisions. Disastrous all around.
It’s wild, watching this play out, that Reinsdorf has six NBA titles to his name. I mean, that is absurd. This guy won six rings? I had to check that there weren’t two Jerries Reinsdorf, but there aren’t, just the one, and the same guy who brought you Tony La Russa and Empty Comiskey won the NBA championship six times. Which means, then, that either winning the NBA title is super easy and we should think a lot less of the rest of the Association, or that Michael Jordan was just that damn good. I’m going with the latter.
Taylor Swift Will (Reportedly) Play the Super Bowl
It was a matter of time. First guess at her set list is that it’s heavy on the 1989 album. Would be funny if she came out and played “Champagne Problems” instead, though. We don’t focus on the Super Bowl loser enough.
More Notes Tomorrow
Today has admittedly gotten the hell out of our hands, so we’re going to be back in the cockpit overnight to get some more notes to you tomorrow. The Sens start preseason play, and we just can’t ignore that (we really should ignore that, I think I have a compulsion problem).
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6:35 PM EDT: Cubs @ Pirates (MLB TV)
8:10 PM EDT: Tigers @ White Sox (MLB TV, third screen)
Still no word on activation for Joe Kelly (though a friend of his did see him last night), still a chance the Cubs could play so well these last couple weeks that Major League Baseball goes back and awards them enough wins to have gone .500.
7:00 PM EDT: Virginia @ Syracuse (ESPN, second screen)
Recent NIT progress-makers try out football. Good luck, guys.
2:00 PM EDT: Ireland U21 vs. Israel U21 – Leg One
Big one for Burnley’s Dara Costelloe as he tries to get Ireland into Euro U21 2023 (bet that was less confusing in the 90s). I love the two-legged setup in soccer. Something cool about it. I think it’s that it encourages blowouts.
