A BRIEF PRELUDE
The picture of Jerry Reinsdorf mouthpiece Bob Nightengale is because the USA Today columnist just wrote about dissension in the White Sox clubhouse. Whether that’s true — Nightengale isn’t always wrong — or just Reinsdorf trying to shift blame for lousy performance from his great buddy, the HOFBP, is open to conjecture.
ON TO THE GAMETHREAD
“It’s not who you play, it’s when you play them.” — Hawk Harrelson
Like most Hawkisms, that one was repeated often — like the rest, very, very often — and it actually has some truth to it.