“Fucking flat”
Pedro Grifol takes a courageous stance ... a third of the way through his second abysmal season?
Be careful what you wish for Pedro Grifol, because it might just end up being the worst possible thing for your coaching career, and the potential death knell to your managerial future ...
A day after the entire team (sans one, stellar starter Garrett Crochet) was called out in the press, and thrown under the proverbial bus for being “fucking flat” by their in-over-his-head, nincompoop manager, the beleaguered Chicago White Sox press forward and move on to the next opponent on the schedule.
Grifol had some choice words for his ball club after yesterday’s series sweep at the hands of the Orioles:
Pedro Grifol said Garrett Crochet pitched his ass off but described most of the rest of the team as “fucking flat.” He didn’t want to talk about what he said to the players in the clubhouse, but it was about as mad as we’ve seen the skipper at his team’s effort.
— Vinnie Duber (@VinnieDuber) May 26, 2024
Newfound hero Korey Lee disagreed with his manager’s assessment, and had pushed back in response:
Korey Lee: “He’s going to feel that way, and obviously we’re going to have a different feeling. He’s entitled to his own opinion, and we are also. I think it’s a valid reason. There’s nothing to hide about that. He has opinions, and other people are going to have their opinions.”
— Vinnie Duber (@VinnieDuber) May 26, 2024
Hmm. Curious. Who could possibly be in charge of this rudderless, sinking ship?
Couldn’t possibly be this guy:
“We’re going to prepare every night to kick your ass.”
— Chuck Garfien (@ChuckGarfien) November 3, 2022
New White Sox manager Pedro Grifol on the White Sox Talk Podcast. https://t.co/NZkLwcnL8Y pic.twitter.com/deKtb1S2Y9
Or this guy, man who looks like he slept in his office after a serious bender, doubling down this morning?
Pedro Grifol ‘doubles down’ on ‘flat’ comments. pic.twitter.com/fTpDe74NZo
— Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) May 27, 2024
Yikes.
Gavin Sheets on how he perceived Pedro Grifol’s meaning of flat Sunday: “I’m not sure. I thought we ran into a pretty good pitcher with pretty good stuff.”
— Daryl Van Schouwen (@CST_soxvan) May 27, 2024
Interesting.
It would appear that frustrations are boiling over inside the clubhouse, with this sad amalgam of washed-up has-beens and never-weres, which stems from the leadership of a man who shouldn’t have been hired in the first place.
So much for all of the culture and work ethic talk ...
And today is the day he decided to throw the whole team under the bus. Somebody should let him know his record as a manager is like 75-140 but ya it’s only the players fault.
— MOWTHELAWN (@BroseffUp) May 26, 2024
#WhiteSox manager Pedro Grifol bullshit is starting to stink. The jig is up he's toast. He knows it and that's why he's dragging his roster
— jacknivesout (@jacknivesout) May 27, 2024
One would think.
This little spat would have me believing that Pedro has lost the clubhouse, but I never truly believed he had the buy-in from his players to begin with. It is sad when the cancer is the man in charge, or the man who hired him, or the man who hired the man who hired him, et al., all the way to the top ...
Pedro is, of course, really bad at his job, and its hard to buy all of this bluster when he was still gung-ho about everything even after a historically bad 3-22 start. Sorry Pedro, we’re just not buying it. The worst part of this mess is that he can’t see that he himself is as much or more of a problem than the underperforming players and the total lack of talent on the roster.
Thus is life on a 15-39 ball club ...