As the MLB winter conferences neared a conclusion, a report surfaced of a Tuesday assembly between Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell.
The Sox confirmed {that a} assembly, first reported by Politico, happened. But they aren’t disclosing the matters mentioned.
The way forward for the Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field has been a topic since an August Crain’s Chicago Business report on the workforce contemplating a transfer from the ballpark when its lease expires after 2029. That report listed a brand new stadium within the metropolis or suburbs and relocating to Nashville among the many potentialities.
Nashville has lengthy been talked about in hypothesis as a metropolis to contemplate if MLB decides on growth.
Reinsdorf mentioned the Crain’s Chicago Business report throughout a session with reporters in late August.
“Somebody at Crain’s decided he wanted to write that, you’re looking at the Bears (stadium situation), and the White Sox lease has six or seven years left to go, and the White Sox have some options — they might move out of the city, they might move out of town, they might go to Nashville,” Reinsdorf stated on Aug. 31. “That wasn’t us, that was a man at Crain’s. And ever because the article got here out, I’ve been studying about that I’ve been threatening to maneuver to Nashville.
“That article didn’t come from me. But it’s obvious, if we have six years left (on the lease), we’ve got to decide: What’s the future going to be? We’ll get to it, but I never threatened to move out. We haven’t even begun to have discussions with the (Illinois) Sports (Facilities) Authority, which we’ll have to do soon.”
The Sox moved into Guaranteed Rate Field, then named new Comiskey Park, in 1991.
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