As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, the Tony La Russa experiment is going about as well as the Chicago White Sox could have expected.
The Sox entered Thursday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles in first place in the American League Central, having survived injuries to one of their biggest stars in Eloy Jiménez and a budding star in Luis Robert.
They’ve also become one of the bigger stories in baseball, mostly because of La Russa, a lightning rod on social media at age 76. He has garnered more national attention for the Sox than they’ve seen since former manager Ozzie Guillen left for the Miami Marlins in 2011.