The White Sox have been throttled by the Oakland A’s the past two nights at home. An imminent change in leadership has not provided the team with any sort of a spark. In fact, there was a different sort of a spark at last night’s game.

Being a creature of habit, I caught 15 minutes of the local baseball radio show this morning and felt really badly for Sox fans based on what I heard. One of the hosts, a respected radio journalist had written that Chris Getz, has flourished in his role as Director of Player Development.

He then defended his use of “flourish” to nobody’s satisfaction. I recently posted about player development but might not have been clear enough. Over the past 17 years I’ve interviewed several directors of development and have learned no two organizations go about the task the same way.

Each organization emphasizes different aspects of development and the better teams look well beyond the minor leagues. If ML teams didn’t think their players needed coaching, instruction and mentoring at the big-league level they wouldn’t employ 10-12 coaches and instructors on the ML staff. Look to any large corporation and you’ll find that employees are constantly undergoing training and further “education.”

Unless you’ve been married to the same woman for 40+ years, how many of us are finished products?

This host and a respected national writer with strong ties to Commissar Jerry, believe that Getz and Dayton Moore are a foregone conclusion. This impartial fan believes the Sox have to hire someone from outside the organization. They have to rid themselves of everyone with the stink of the organization emanating from their pores. The manager and his coaching staff have proven they are not up to the job. Most of the players have earned a ticket out of town.

At the moment, sitting through a horrible on-field performance at Guaranteed Rate Field isn’t the worst thing Sox fans have to worry about.