It hasn’t exactly been the best of times for Tony La Russa and David Ross, the two baseball managers in a baseball town.
Neither is a particularly good loser, yet losing has defined both of their 2022 seasons in the first three months.
La Russa’s Chicago White Sox were expected to be World Series contenders. It’s a team custom-built for a veteran manager to get it over the hump, which is why La Russa came out of retirement in 2020 to take the reins.
