White Sox Fans Are The Problem

'It's your fault I'm a bad GM.'

With the All-Star break approaching, MLB teams are quickly being divided into buyers and sellers.  Most teams with a chance of making the playoffs are buyers, provided they aren’t owned by a penny-pinching miser.  The Chicago White Sox don’t exactly fall into either category.  They tried to acquire Jake Peavy in May, but the Padres ace nixed the deal.  Now, GM Kenny Williams would like you to believe that the Sox can’t make a big move because of budgetary constraints.  Namely, the fans aren’t supporting the team enough. 

”Well, if I’m being completely honest money is more of the issue now. We expected a little more support than we’ve gotten,” Williams said.  US Cellular Field Ballpark is only drawing about 26-thousand fans per home game, which is a drop of more than 4-thousand per game from last season.  So the numbers back up the claims, but does this sound like a cop out to anybody else?  Williams has been unable to do his job, so he’s blaming the fans before they can blame him.  It’s like he’s telling them that Manny would be in Chicago right now if they’d bought season tickets.  Similar to if I said this article, nay this site, would be better if more people showed up every day.  It’s your fault when you really think about it. 

Williams’s plan is working too.  Maybe he isn’t going to win many fans over by throwing them under the bus, although I’m sure some other team’s fans think White Sox faithful under a bus is pretty great.  But, the fans don’t keep Williams employed and people that work with him are saying good things.  After acquiring Tony Pena from Arizona on Tuesday, Mark Buehrle showed his support by saying “It just shows everybody in the clubhouse that he’s out there trying to do what he can do to make this team better”.  Really Mark?  He picked up a middle reliever, don’t be fooled just because he’s telling you how hard his job is right now.  Would you go to a restaurant and applaud the chef for serving you grilled cheese, which I believe is the food equivalent of Tony Pena, when you ordered and needed steak?  I guess Mark Buehrle would as long as the chef made some excuse about why his job was so hard. 

The question that keeps popping into my mind is, which came first, the poor attendance or the boring baseball team?   It is possible that Williams has a valid point and more fans at the park would enable him to get a great player before the trading deadline, although I still don’t think he should have come out and said it.  On the other hand, he may have driven the fans away by not making strong moves and allowing a team that won the World Series not long ago to crumble.  Keep in mind that last year’s big move was to bring in Ken Griffey Jr.  I love the Kid, but at this stage in his career, he’s not going to put anyone over the top.  The idea that he would was probably also the fans’ fault.

Tags: baseball, Chicago White Sox, Kenny Williams, Mark Buehrle, MLB

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