During a break in White Sox camp last week, manager Rick Renteria discussed his team’s resiliency.
At the end of a long, meandering, answer, he curled his hand into a fist and bumped a framed photograph of Mark Buehrle on the wall behind him.
“Knock on wood, we’ll hope that continues to occur,” he said.
Unable to contain myself, I pointed out the factual error.
“Uh, that’s not wood,” I said.
Renteria acknowledged the mistake and changed course.
“I’ll give it to you right here,” he said, knocking on his head.