A few words about the Chicago White Sox

News item: The White Sox fired manager Pedro Grifol on Thursday. Here’s the team’s announcement.

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— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 8, 2024 What’s missing from that announcement? Why, who’s going to replace Grifol for the last 45 games of the White Sox’ 2024 season. Later this morning, they did name an interim guy, and fired some coaches:

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— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 8, 2024 For those coaches, this might wind up being a relief, not having to be around if/when the Sox set all kinds of loss records.

All of this is just one more chapter in the weird history of the recent White Sox, and you’ll forgive me for an article here about…