Pedro Grifol is 'on Mount Rushmore of worst White Sox managers'

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Pedro Grifol went 89-190 while managing the White Sox for two seasons.

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00:00They became a team that lost a hundred and ninety games.

00:05He's eighty-nine and one ninety.

00:07A hundred and ninety games in less than two seasons.

00:10He's on the Mount Rushmore.

00:12He will be there.

00:14If you want to start with worst White Sox managers, he may be.

00:18Bevington, Griffo.

00:22So, White Sox managers since 2011, that's when Ozzie left.

00:27Don Cooper for two games.

00:29Robin Ventura from 2012 to 2016.

00:32Which he did begrudgingly.

00:34Yes, the reluctant one.

00:36Ricky Renteria from 2017 to 2020.

00:39Aging well.

00:41Tony La Russa, speaking of aging well.

00:432021 to 2022.

00:45Miguel Cairo took over in 22.

00:47We haven't talked enough about him coming back.

00:49And then of course, Pedro for the last two seasons.

00:54Yeah, so now they have an opportunity.

00:56Now a new interim manager.

00:58An opportunity to do what?

01:00See, I know that's going to be the reaction.

01:02I think every time you have an opening like this,

01:04you have an opportunity to change your franchise for the better.

01:08So, there will be cynicism that you just have to deal with.

01:11It's inherent.

01:12But you do have an opportunity to improve your franchise

01:15for the next, fill in the blank, number of years.

01:17I think the disease in this organization is too set in the bone marrow.

01:24I think it's an overly negative way to look at this.

01:26But I respect where you're coming from.

01:28Because I think that you're the Sox fan and I get it.

01:31But if I'm Chris Getz, or if I'm whoever's leading this charge,

01:35I can't look at it that way.

01:37I feel better about the White Sox today than I did when I woke up this morning.

01:41Yeah, it's fair.

01:43And I get where Dan is coming from and he's right to a large degree.

01:47But that doesn't mean, what this says to me is,

01:52at least, and it's the lowest bar for them to step over

01:55because you're not even jumping over it,

01:57but at least you have identified the fact,

02:01yes, this guy doesn't know what he's doing.

02:05You have, yeah.

02:06And so you got to get him out of there.

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