Those “Sell the team” indicators seen at Guaranteed Rate Field the final two seasons haven’t persuaded Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf to take the recommendation of disgruntled Chicago White Sox followers.
Asked throughout a gathering with chosen reporters Thursday why he gained’t promote the group, the 87-year-old Reinsdorf had a prepared reply.
“I’m going to couch this so nobody writes that I thought of selling,” Reinsdorf stated. “Friends of mine have stated: ‘Why don’t you promote? Why don’t you get out?’ My reply all the time has been: ‘I like what I’m doing, as unhealthy as it’s, and what else would I do?’
“I’m a boring guy. I don’t play golf. I don’t play bridge. And I want to make it better before I go.”
Reinsdorf is a part of a gaggle that has owned the Sox since 1981. They have gained one championship in that span, in 2005, the one yr they’ve gained a playoff collection throughout his regime. The clamor for Reinsdorf to promote picked up in 2022, when the rebuild started going south.
Reinsdorf additionally has been rumored to be on the lookout for a brand new ballpark to switch Guaranteed Rate Field, the taxpayer-funded stadium the place the Sox’s lease ends in 2028 — and even perhaps leaving city and transferring the Sox to Nashville, Tenn. The Sox threatened to maneuver to St. Petersburg, Fla., within the Eighties earlier than reaching a cope with the state for the present park, initially known as new Comiskey Park.
Reinsdorf blamed Crain’s Chicago Business for beginning the rumors in a report about the potential for leaving Guaranteed Rate Field.
“Somebody at Crain’s decided he wanted to write that (the Sox) were looking at the Bears (situation),” Reinsdorf stated, “and the White Sox lease has six or seven years left to go and the White Sox have some choices, they may transfer out of the town, they may transfer out of city, they may go to Nashville. That wasn’t us, that was a (reporter) at Crain’s.
“And ever for the reason that article got here out, I’ve been studying that I’ve been threatening to maneuver to Nashville. That article didn’t come from me. But it’s apparent, if we’ve six years left … we’ve received to resolve what’s the long run (of the place the Sox house is) 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 Authority, which we’ll have to do soon.”
USA Today reporter Bob Nightengale wrote final week that the Sox had been contemplating three websites for a possible transfer: Arlington Heights, Soldier Field and close to the United Center.
According to actual property web site therealdeal.com, an organization with hyperlinks to Reinsdorf not too long ago bought property on the West Side close to the United Center for $17.2 million. The managers of the LLC that made the acquisition are Howard Pizer, senior government vice chairman of the Sox, and Terry Savarise, senior vice chairman of stadium operations for the Sox and government vice chairman of operations for the United Center.
The Bulls and Blackhawks personal and function the United Center beneath a three way partnership managed by Reinsdorf and, till his demise in July, Hawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz.
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