White Sox fire manager Pedro Grifol but still need a culture change

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00:00That is why the larger picture is so depressing and daunting, regardless of the celebration

00:07of a move being made.

00:09Because we called it out when they assembled his staff.

00:14And all of a sudden it was easy to see, okay, well this is an ownership guy.

00:19This is a gets guy.

00:21These people...

00:22This is a Rick guy.

00:23That's a Kenny guy.

00:24And all it did was perpetuate the whispers and backstabbing and weaselly nature of the

00:31White Sox.

00:32You got one weasel out.

00:33Are you going to hire another weasel?

00:37Because this is the culture you have there.

00:39Is this person going to be allowed to hire their staff so they can know that people are

00:45all working to the same ends with the same agendas?

00:49Instead of you hiring their bench coach.

00:51Yes.

00:52You hire the bench coach first with experience as a manager and say, oh, this guy's the

00:56bench coach.

00:57But you're going to be the manager and here's a hitting coach and here's the pitching coach

01:01who's hired by this person.

01:02It was all a mess.

01:04Until you change that culture, all you're doing is finding another way to end up with

01:10similar results and lack of trust and whisper campaigns and players looking at each other

01:16like to whom do we answer?

01:17Because you still got this gibbering old coot at the top of your baseball organization.

01:23He's still there.

01:25Yeah, but he's not going anywhere.

01:31All I that's I talk about it all the time.

01:35Someone owns something that you love.

01:38He's not going anywhere.

01:40And now it's a matter of will he be willing to find people that are charismatic enough

01:48to challenge him in a way that he doesn't think is threatening?

01:53That's that's the if we want to be real, that's the miracle of what Kenny and Rick did for

02:00at least a decade, at least the last decade that they were involved in decision.

02:05They kept the levy from cracking.

02:07Yes.