The White Sox Embarrassed Themselves Once Again Last Night With Tim Anderson Tweeting Through Things After Getting Dropped And Kenyan Middleton Ripping The Sox Clubhouse Culture

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So last night, Tim Anderson took to Twitter to send out a bunch of cryptic messages in what were his first public (?) comments since he got dropped by Jose Ramirez:

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Shortly after that, Kenyan Middleton started taking shots at the clubhouse in his first public quotes since being traded. We'll get to him in a moment. It would have been pleasant to enjoy Sunday night without the White Sox pissing me off, but that's an impossibility. 

First, we'll start with TA. I'm not gonna sit here and decipher any of these messages like I'm Sigmund Freud. I don't know the first thing TA's struggling with. No idea what's going on in his head right now. What I do know is that since his corn field walk off, the guy hasn't been the same. He used to play with a cocky confidence Sox fans LOVED and other teams HATED. 

He was the perfect SS for what was supposed to be a team that won and won a lot for this era of baseball. Nope. Wasn't that.

Now it's gotten to a point where he's just…hated. A lot of Sox fans are completely over him. Mind you, this will be the 4th season in 5 years where he's been suspended for ON the field shit when he gets sent to the baseball clink today or tomorrow by Manfred. 

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It's sad. Dude could have been a major face in this city. Now we're at the point where we're wondering if the Sox will pick up his paltry option next year or just wipe their hands clean of him and his antics. 

Guy's not right. That doesn't mean he can't get right again. He's played better baseball since the break but if he's looking for that big pay day, he better take a LONG look in the mirror and start pointing thumbs, not fingers. A lot of the internet backlash he's getting is self-induced and the quicker he learns that and embraces it, the quicker he can hopefully be right. 

And then we get to Middleton's comments: 

"We came in with no rules," Middleton said. "I don't know how you police the culture if there are no rules or guidelines to follow because everyone is doing their own thing. Like, how do you say anything about it because there are no rules?

"You have rookies sleeping in the bullpen during the game. You have guys missing meetings. You have guys missing PFPs (pitcher fielding practices), and there are no consequences for any of this stuff."

Does this shock anybody at all? It shouldn't. You can see there's zero clubhouse cohesion just watching on TV. It RADIATES on TV. These guys just don't seem like they like each other at all and don't seem to be having any fun. It's a 180 degree spin from what it was almost 2 years ago to the day. 

But to hear it straight from the horses mouth? It still stings. Rogers named names too: 

This is all shit I can corroborate too through "sources". Moncada has been on my shit list for years now and this is the TL/DR as to why. Guy got paid and mailed it in, plain and simple. 

So now we have the following people going on record as saying (paraphrased), "that organization sucks": 

- Kenyan Middleton
- Lance Lynn (after being dealt to LAD)
- Joe Kelly (after being dealt to LAD)
- Jake Burger (after being dealt to MIA)
- Chris Sale, Adam Laroche, and on and on it goes

And let's not forget Dallas Keuchel, a guy who Sox fans wanted to see have his decapitated head shoved on a stake like he's Ned Stark in GoT after he was DFA'd last year. That guy seemed to be the biggest douche on earth when he was here, but in hind sight? All of the bitching and moaning he was doing to the media seems to have been completely justified. Yes, he was also cooked but that doesn't make anything he said false. Quite clearly he was being honest. 

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So on that note, I'd like to apologize to Keuchel on behalf of myself. 

They need to blow this entire organization up. Fire the entire front office for putting this "team" together, fire the entire coaching staff for letting this dog shit locker room culture fester, get rid of everyone sans Robert, and start over from complete and total scratch. Easier said than done, but it's gotta happen. 

We'll see if Reinsdorf has the balls to make changes for a better future of this organization. If he doesn't and keeps the status quo, he'll more than likely live out his final days never seeing anything close to a winner again. If that actually matters to him remains to be seen. 

I can't confidently say it doesn't. Anyone who knows him SWEARS that losing drives him crazy, but he's done more losing than any team not named Detroit over the last decade. It's a complete and total embarrassment. 

Stop going to games and stop enabling this madness