For whatever reason, the Chicago White Sox and owner Jerry Resindorf seem hellbent on destroying the good will they have established in recent years.

The White Sox are an exciting, young team that exceeded expectations last season and were one of the best teams in baseball. The good will continued after the White Sox fired manager Rick Renteria, who despite losing his job finished second in American League Manager of the Year voting Tuesday.

But White Sox fans and much of the MLB community shunned the franchise’s decision to hire long-retired Tony La Russa as their next manager. A Hall-of-Famer and former World Series champion, La Russa boasts a fine resume, but the game of baseball seems to have passed him by in recent years.

The La Russa hiring was a sure sign the Reinsdorf is still pulling the strings for the White Sox. Reinsdorf has long said that allowing the firing of La Russa back in 1986 is one of his biggest regrets.

He regrets it so much that he will apparently go against conventional wisdom, common sense and even the will of some members of his own organization to bring La Russa back.

The White Sox are a thrilling, up-and-coming team, and hiring a dinosaur to run the team just makes no sense.

Surely the La Russa hiring could not have gotten any more ridiculous, but then Tuesday happened.

It was repored that La Russa was arrested on suspicion of DUI back in February and was actually charged the day before the White Sox hired him.

The White Sox announced that they were aware of this incident and hired La Russa anyway.

Inexplicably, they did not use this as an excuse to stop the process of hiring La Russa, a move that has made them the laughing stock of MLB baseball, and are sticking with him.

A roster of exciting young players like Tim Anderson, Luis Robert and Eloy Jiminez deserves a manager who is not over the hill and a relic of a past era.

Not only has the La Russa hiring angered fans, but it also may hurt the team in free agency.

Pitcher Marcus Stroman has been very vocal on social media that he thinks the hire is bad, and it seems like he would have considered signing with the White Sox before the hire was made.

Hopefully the White Sox and Reinsdorf come to their senses and make the right decision. They are in danger of spoiling something great.

Adam Tumino is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].