Jerry Reinsdorf Finds His New Lapdog: White Sox To Likely Promote Chris Getz To GM

This morning, I caught wind that the White Sox were going to announce Chris Getz as the new head honcho (under Reinsdorf, that is) on Thursday. I'll start by saying that I hope Chris Getz is the savior of this franchise. I hope he finds incredible amounts of success, obviously. 

But this is NOT fucking it. Seriously, this is completely outrageous. 

I have a question: how does 87 year old Jerry Reinsdorf make the BIGGEST change in his organization in decades and think "hiring from within" is a remotely good decision based on how god awful his organization has been over the last two decades? 

It'd be one thing if Reinsdorf hired people to scour the baseball earth, leave no stone unturned, and wind up on Chris Getz. If that were the case, and after a SHIT TON of due diligence were performed, then I'd be all aboard. But there was seemingly no due diligence performed. 

None. At all. 

Yes, I hope I'm wrong. I hope Chris Getz is the next Theo Epstein and makes myself and everyone else on the planet eat crow. One thing that *should* be good is that it looks like it'll be just him and Jerry. No Kenny Williams middle man egotistical ASSHOLES in the room. I'd also assume he gets to hire his own staff. I just hope he's smart enough to go FAR elsewhere when doing so. 

At least I hope. Watch Reinsdorf name Getz GM and hire someone above him though. Typically sports orgs hire a top dog and let that person fill out their own staff, but nobody ever knows with the White Sox. You'll get who you get and you'll like it!!! 

That said, when Getz was named Director of Player Development a few years ago, I got a text from an agent buddy saying it was a "grand slam hire". That was the exact descriptor he used. 

But he's not got years of White Sox stink on him. He's never been with a winning club. Ever. Not at any point of his professional career. Because of that, I'm not sure how he's going to succeed when being tasked with building an organization that wins in bundles and is something to be proud of, let alone rebuild it from the embarrassment it is today - an embarrassment that he was part of as Asst. GM and Director of Player Dev. 

Needless to say, Sox fans are pissed: 

This will be the most enraging thing that has happened to Sox fans all week, and one of them accidentally shot herself (and others!) after sneaking a gun into the stadium under her belly fat: 

It's just so goddamn disgusting. A complete and total embarrassment of an organization 

Lots of people already saying they miss Rick Hahn, too. It's hilarious - no matter how bad it is for us Sox fans, Reinsdorf always makes it worse. He takes it out on us. HE LOATHES OUR EXISTENCE. 

This ain't just me - some asshole internet loser - bitching and moaning, either. Everyone from Ken Rosenthal to AJ Pierzynski to Ozzie Guillen agrees: 

This entire "process" was, as predicted, a big fuck you to everybody. I'd say I'd feel bad for the players, but those assholes are as guilty for this mess as anybody. Overpaid and lazy bums. Fuck'm all. 

I'll wrap up by saying that I absolutely hate myself for still hanging on to the 1% of a 1% chance that this blog will look REALLY bad in a few days. I don't see that happening though, considering there is no level of "bad" the White Sox can reach: 

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