No, the White Sox said, there was no truth to the report of a rift between executive vice president Ken Williams and general manager Rick Hahn over the direction this dogbreath team should go at the trade deadline.
And that’s a shame. Don’t you wish someone had disagreed with doing nothing after yet another offseason of chasing just enough veteran talent to not play even .500?
The story bumped along like this Tuesday:
David Kaplan said on WMVP-AM 1000 that Williams and Hahn disagreed at the trade deadline, then later that evening went on Comcast SportsNet’s “Sports Talk Live’’ to explain that Chairman Reinsdorf told him the front office was “100 percent in lockstep.