Yes, Will, that 2005 trophy is going to loom over your tenure as White Sox manager unless you can perform a miracle. | Cheryl Raye Stout/Twitter
A wider unveiling to come next week, but we got a few initial answers on Thursday
I just lost a long piece I wrote on the Zoom conference with new manager Will Venable and GM Chris Getz, somehow with no way of recovering on this platform. That’s a first. So you’re going to get a truncated version.
Broadly, the decision to make this known announcement (since at least late Tuesday and surely in Getz’s mind longer) a half-hour zoom with about a dozen questions asked by about 10 people is very strange. There will be an unveiling of Venable as manager on November 8 with the jersey photo op and full dog-and-pony show, at the park, but why not now? There’s not even the excuse of a looming World Series Game 6 that might swallow up the news and kill it in the cycle. Strange choice, White Sox.
But ... thank you for the invite, even though there was not enough time to get to the folks farther down on the food chain.
Thankfully, I have already tweeted out my takeaways from the conference, so I’ll just paste them here and send it out into the ether to you, dear reader.
Takeaways from the Will Venable/Chris Getz #WhiteSox zoom conference, brief though it was:
Getz started with a candidate list of 60+, whittled it to 5, and Venable jumped off the page during that process.
Venable said he/his wife set a criteria each year, and see if the opportunities that arise meet them. Apparently, the Mets/Guards did not do so a year ago, and the Sox did: "Chris didn't have to sell me." Will also did not admit to a single concern in taking over a 121-loss team.
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