These Sox have plenty of holes. (Baseball).

Firing the manager is the easy way out for underachieving teams, and the White Sox are the American League version of the Mets, only less expensive. They can justify dumping the laid-back Jerry Manuel in the middle of their third straight disappointing season. But they shouldn't expect that someone such as Wally Backman, their fiery Class AA manager, will get better results.

The White Sox are flawed. Their lineup is too righthanded, their fundamentals too unsound, their chemistry too uncertain. They're bound to start hitting, and maybe they'll add a lefthanded slugger who can play center field and solve two problems at once. But it's always something with this ...