Earlier this week, the Chicago White Sox were splashed, despite themselves, by a scandal via their former reliever Keynan Middleton.
Basically, the club’s former reliever, traded to the Yankees at the deadline, says the White Sox guys are screwing up and the club’s leadership sucks.
No one, according to him, is accountable for his actions, which means that everything is permitted. Arriving late for practices, sleeping during a match: nothing is forbidden.
Still, huh?
But now we know more about the White Sox and the internal problems. And one of the quibbles has to do with Tim Anderson and Yasmani Grandal.
In fact, according to what circulates, Grandal would have, just before the Match of the stars, slapped Anderson.
For what? Because Tim Anderson would have heard that Grandal, who was not playing the last game before the break (he finally arrived as a pinch hitter), wanted to go on vacation early.
Anderson, not wanting such behavior at the club, reportedly said:
If he doesn’t want to be here, I’ll pay for his plane ticket.
–Tim Anderson
Predictably, Grandal didn’t exactly appreciate the shortstop’s comments to him. And that’s where he would have slapped him.
Note that the receiver denied the story.
I don’t know what’s in the water in Chicago (or in the South End, at the very least), but there’s no esprit de corps in town. Guys don’t want to fight together.
It’s clearly going to be a huge challenge since more than one person internally sees the problems. Lance Lynn, for example, agrees with the words of his former teammate Middleton.
I don’t know if it’s going to go through a change of manager or through several transactions, but there are poisons in the White Sox locker room.
The offseason will be important in Chicago.
