Grant's Rant: 5-20-21 La Russa's distraction dire for White Sox?

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The White Sox are hot and leading the Central Division in the American League. Some things typically stay in the locker room but Tony La Russa was critical of Yermin Mercedes swinging on a 3-0 pitch when they were up by a large margin in the 9th against the Minnesota Twins. I mean 16-4 is a pretty secure win. So the controversy starts about why the manager is critical of his own player. The team seems to have rallied around Mercedes at this point and Tony being Tony is holding his line. If nothing else, this is all an unnecessary distraction to a team that is playing very well, and while I think the world of Tony, he's an old school guy and this seems to be an old school ploy. If nothing else, let's hope it doesn't unsettle whatever is working. Let me know how you feel about it after listening to today's podcast. Is it baseball protocol to back off ? Or is that the "old school" mentality? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for Grant.
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0:12.0	Hey, be sure and check out tomorrow's podcast.
0:13.8	My guest is Jerry Reynolds.
0:16.5	We'll go over the Sacramento King's season and look ahead to the NBA playoffs which
0:20.8	begin tomorrow.
0:21.8	That's tomorrow on my podcast and just a reminder don't
0:24.8	forget to check out my video rants as well over on YouTube. Well these Chicago
0:30.0	White Sox they're off to a great start, but their manager, Tony Larusa, in my opinion,
0:36.4	made a dreadful mistake the other night after your mean Mercedes hit a home run on a
0:42.1	3-0 pitch with the white socks up 15 to 4 off a positional player.
0:47.0	Now here's the problem.
0:49.0	Why are you airing your dirty laundry to the media if you're Tony Larusa. I mean he killed the guy,
0:55.7	absolutely killed him.
0:57.0	Quote, big mistake. The fact that he's a rookie and excited helps explain why he just was clueless.
1:04.8	But now he's got a clue.
1:07.8	He said I was upset because that's not a time to swing 3-0.
1:11.5	I knew the twins knew I was upset. He missed a 3-0-take sign. With that kind of lead, that's
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