Someone has to teach Ricky’s boys not to quit. That someone is Ricky himself.
The rebuilding White Sox are trying to establish an organizational identity, and that has taken the form of “Ricky’s boys don’t quit,” a four-word, bumper-sticker friendly way of summarizing the manager’s desire for his players to play hard, from the start of the game to the end of it. The players wear shirts with the No. 27 on the back, symbolizing playing hard for all 27 outs of a game.
But on rare occasions, they don’t do that, and that’s when Renteria needs to step in.