White Sox still don't get it
0 Comments Published by Colin Wyers on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 8:25 PM.
Do you know what the White Sox think they lacked last season?
You're... you're kidding me, right? Please tell me you're joking. You can't mean it, right, Kenny Williams?
"The greatest asset is what [the players] have heard or read or seen," the Sox general manager said Friday at SoxFest. "To a man, they [have] a little edge or chip, and I'm not going to stop that."
Okay, so I guess you do mean it. But at least the players don't buy into it, right?
"I don't know if you want to call it a chip on your shoulder, but that's what we're going to need," team captain Paul Konerko said. "There's no question, if you're looking from the outside, at best we're going to be picked to finish third. And we should use that as motivation.
"[Detroit and Cleveland are] coming off very good years, haven't lost anything and even gained something. So we [should] embrace the underdog role a little bit. Our attitude is definitely going to have to be … a feeling of fighting an uphill battle, because that's likely what it will be."
Yeah, "uphill battle" is how I might put it. Perhaps through driving snow. Without shoes. While being strafed by machine gun fire.
I mean... you do know that you had Darin Erstad last season, right? That man had as many chips on his shoulder as you could want in a player, and look where that got you.
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The White Sox Fan Fest is not a love-in
0 Comments Published by Colin Wyers on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 10:29 PM.
This strikes me as being messy. Question and answer sessions are said to have been heated. But Kenny Williams was able to sate the masses:
"I will take a risk on a high-ceiling players and jeopardize my reputation if I think that player fits into the equation and leads us to a championship if things go the way we think they will," [Kenny] Williams said during a five-minute reply that finished with applause. "If you leave here today, understand this: every move, every decision we make is in an effort to win a championship."
Williams is gambling a lot on this season, and I don't think the Indians and the Tigers will be very forgiving. This is still a team that could finish last place in the division.
Labels: Baseball, Chicago White Sox, Kenny Williams
