Steve Stone plans to be back with Ken Harrelson and the White Sox next year. Like a marriage, for better or worse.
Less than a week after his comments about Harrelson sparked speculation about his future, Stone clarified his plans Tuesday morning on the Mully and Hanley Show on WSCR-AM 670 in Chicago.
Stone said: ““My plans are very simple. I plan to stay with the Chicago White Sox through this contract and hopefully beyond. Regardless of what you might have read or heard or people speculated on or blogged (about) or anything else, I will be back. It’s 100 percent. Hopefully, as I said, for many years. In looking at it, this is, in my estimation, the best big city in the country.”
It all became an issue because of what Stone said last week on WSCR: “When you have any type of partner in any business, you’re going to have some periods where things are really good, some periods where they’re not so good, some periods where things are frustrating, some periods where they’re exhilarating. I think a baseball season is like that. I think late in the season, you just realize it’s a roller coaster, and it’s not just a roller coaster for the baseball team. It’s a roller coaster for all of us who follow it that closely on a daily basis.”
Stone must have decided it was worth another ride on the rollercoaster.
Time for the Sox to pull the plug on Harrelson. He’s old, grumpy, depressed, cliche-ridden, and unprofessionally biased toward the Sox and against everyone else, including umpires and objective observers (read Stone). His attitude sure doesn’t make watching the Sox very much fun and I think it depresses attendance.