Pedro Grifol had no redeeming quality

The White Sox fired manager Pedro Grifol on Thursday morning. He went 89-190 in two seasons in the dugout on the South Side.

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00:00Well, good way to put it. I'm just curious. Now, how limited is your ambition because

00:06of how scarred you feel about what's happened this season and all the things that, you know,

00:12he represented?

00:13I think that White Sox fans should walk into this being a little bit skeptical and maybe

00:17even cynical about where this goes because the problems are, they're myriad. Like it's

00:24so much that they have to try and overcome. But to me, you can separate it and say the

00:33White Sox organizationally are not very strong right now, but I know this guy can't manage

00:41even with the restrictions that he's been given. The fact that the roster is not very

00:48good, which is on Chris Gets and before that it's on Rick Han and Kenny Williams because

00:53of what they did and on ownership.

00:55But there were fundamental problems with how he managed. I agree with that.

00:58That's the thing.

00:59That's the thing to identify.

01:00That's the thing. The point that I've been trying to make for the last couple of weeks

01:03is that just because we know the roster's bad doesn't mean that we can't identify a

01:09bad manager. And he's a bad manager in every sense of the word. Whether we're talking game

01:17strategy, whether we're talking setting a tone, whether we're talking fundamentals, whether

01:22we're talking dealing with the public, there is nothing that Pedro Grafal is good at. There's

01:28no redeeming quality to him. So fire him and let's hope that it means that you're starting

01:34to think bigger and trying to hire better people.