“Tony’s like that dad, we’re like his kids,” Anderson said of the kerfuffle over Mercedes’ home run against the Minnesota Twins. “We’re like the bad kids who don’t listen. But we all get along.”
“Bad Kids” already should be emblazoned on White Sox T-shirts, coffee mugs and key chains in the souvenir shop on the lower concourse of Sox Park. The slogan should be part of a TV ad campaign, boosted by the team’s Twitter account and mentioned by Jason Benetti and Steve Stone on telecasts as often as Sox Math. Some organizations pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to ad agencies for an idea like this, and Anderson handed it to the Sox for nothing.