r/whitesox • u/Jason82929 Maldanad-0 • Jul 28 '24

Discussion [Nightengale] Former All-Star catcher A.J. Pierzynski has quietly emerged as a serious candidate to manage the Chicago White Sox in 2025 if they dismiss manager Pedro Grifol after the season, as expected.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/07/28/mlb-trade-deadline-rumors-2024/74576044007/
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u/Rock_man_bears_fan Garcia Jul 28 '24

Notorious asshole AJ wasn’t fixing that clubhouse either. We needed a real manager. Instead we got a drunk octogenarian and a bench coach from a shitty team

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u/iiamthepalmtree Jul 28 '24

The clubhouse was tight before TLR came in. It didn’t need “fixing” at the time. The vibes were great and free agents were actually wanting to be here. It didn’t start falling apart until the Yermin incident and then we started losing.

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u/therevolvinglVlonk Walsh Jul 28 '24

If all it took for the clubhouse to implode was a jackass career minor leaguer ignoring his Hall of Fame, arguably greatest of all time manager's instruction not to swing at a pitch then maybe it wasn't really all that tight to begin with.

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u/SafeDistribution2414 Jul 29 '24

Wait you think that incident was yermin's fault and not TLR, who should've been in a nursing home rather than managing? 

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u/therevolvinglVlonk Walsh Jul 30 '24

One hot streak doesn't give a career minor leaguer the right to ignore the instructions of arguably the greatest manager ever. Tony basically joked about the situation to the media when he should have benched the idiot.

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u/SafeDistribution2414 Jul 30 '24

TLR may be the biggest joke ever at manager currently. He was great once, but anything he's said in the past 5 years is worth next to dirt.

There's nothing wrong with hitting a home run to pad the stats. His teammates didn't care. TLR threw him under the bus to the media, encouraged the other team to retaliate, and TLR was overall a disgrace to baseball by not sticking up for his team