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The Worst Owner in Sports? The case for Jerry Reinsdorf


Kyyle23

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Good article. In this day and age especially where college and pro football teams are firing guys before the halfway part of seasons for gosh sake, Jerry deserves all the scorn and more that he gets. He owns the team so he can't get fired but if ever a guy deserved to be fired it's Jerry for a zillion reasons. Taking the Bulls out of the equation what he's done to the Sox after the momentum of 2005 is downright sad. One title is fine but in this day and age one glorious moment is not near enough especially when he's in charge of this 100 loss machine.

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7 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

In the last 12 seasons the Chicago Bears have had one winning season. What does that say about the Bears ownership?

It says they have had one winning season in the last 12.  The Bears have been abjectly awful at decision making but they have tried to win, Jerry has done no such thing.  The Sox have had the worst season in the history of the league and are on year 3 of 100 losses.  

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Interesting. I was at a Fall League game today which did not have the Desert Dogs and there were some Brewer fans talking about bad owners and JR is often on top. The same thing happened last year when a couple was wondering who was the worst, Fisher or Reinsdorf.

He has a legacy all right.  

The organization has to be blacklisted among quality free agents.   The only solution is to grow your own superstars and not trade them away.  Anyone of value our mental illness of trade frenzy kicks in.  Cheaper and younger only works if you have great scouting and development but even that falls short. Even the big spenders have great scouting and development.

 Winning solves everything but it doesn't if it is not consistent.   

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13 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Interesting. I was at a Fall League game today which did not have the Desert Dogs and there were some Brewer fans talking about bad owners and JR is often on top. The same thing happened last year when a couple was wondering who was the worst, Fisher or Reinsdorf.

He has a legacy all right.  

The organization has to be blacklisted among quality free agents.   The only solution is to grow your own superstars and not trade them away.  Anyone of value our mental illness of trade frenzy kicks in.  Cheaper and younger only works if you have great scouting and development but even that falls short. Even the big spenders have great scouting and development.

 Winning solves everything but it doesn't if it is not consistent.   

There is some truth to this but what is also very true is getting new ownership on hand to flush everything the old ownership did right down the toilet and create a new identity among fans, media, players and agents. 

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11 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:

It says they have had one winning season in the last 12.  The Bears have been abjectly awful at decision making but they have tried to win, Jerry has done no such thing.  The Sox have had the worst season in the history of the league and are on year 3 of 100 losses.  

And it has been 20 years since the Sox last won a post season series, although admittedly that was the World Series!

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In a perfect world, MLB should force Reinsdorf to sell the team to Ishbia like today, yes I know it’s wishful thinking and I’ll leave it at that.
This deplorable man has just about destroyed the franchise and I hope he knows that he is probably the most hated man in Chicago, nice legacy, the creep belongs in the Hall of Shame.

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2 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said:

In a perfect world, MLB should force Reinsdorf to sell the team to Ishbia like today, yes I know it’s wishful thinking and I’ll leave it at that.
This deplorable man has just about destroyed the franchise and I hope he knows that he is probably the most hated man in Chicago, nice legacy, the creep belongs in the Hall of Shame.

JR doesn't care if he's hated by Bulls/White Sox fans. The only thing he cares about is making money. And he has been very good at making money.

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15 hours ago, WBWSF said:

In the last 12 seasons the Chicago Bears have had one winning season. What does that say about the Bears ownership?

I’ve maintained for a while the Bears (George specifically) have wanted to win, they are just too dumb to figure out how. It hasn’t been about not being willing to pay or make big moves, ownership is just simply bad in hiring and foundation building. Jerry is far smarter than George, which makes him even worse 

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18 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

JR doesn't care if he's hated by Bulls/White Sox fans. The only thing he cares about is making money. And he has been very good at making money.

He has left a lot of money on the table and depreciated the value of his organization by being such a penny pinching dipshit 

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1 hour ago, Tony said:

I’ve maintained for a while the Bears (George specifically) have wanted to win, they are just too dumb to figure out how. It hasn’t been about not being willing to pay or make big moves, ownership is just simply bad in hiring and foundation building. Jerry is far smarter than George, which makes him even worse 

comparing success in the NFL and MLB is apples and oranges,  1st round picks in the NFL can create immediate success plus the choices are not large as they are in MLB. 

 I have no idea why we are discussing the Bears.   

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12 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

There is some truth to this but what is also very true is getting new ownership on hand to flush everything the old ownership did right down the toilet and create a new identity among fans, media, players and agents. 

This will not happen overnight.  

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26 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

comparing success in the NFL and MLB is apples and oranges,  1st round picks in the NFL can create immediate success plus the choices are not large as they are in MLB. 

 I have no idea why we are discussing the Bears.   

Because WBWSF is weirdly deflecting 

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The White Sox and baseball in general were probably THE stabilizing force in my life since I was a child, the one consistent activity I had was watching and talking about white Sox baseball, hence why I joined this site 21 years ago and became a regular. After 35 years of constant disappointment with zero hope in sight I decided to relinquish my fandom and cut the team out of my life. Instead on being jaded and synical, constantly bitching about Sox minutea that will not improve anytime soon I decided to just stop following them one day and you know what? I'm a lot better off for having done so, I'm infinitly happier in my life doing things that I enjoy. My removing the one thing from my life that I held most dear was 100% in response to JR's dreadful fucking ownership, I have zero positive feelings towards that man and the way he chooses to run his sports franchises. Its just further proof that you can find tremendous success in the business world and still be an enormous fucking loser. 

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6 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said:

In a perfect world, MLB should force Reinsdorf to sell the team to Ishbia like today, yes I know it’s wishful thinking and I’ll leave it at that.
This deplorable man has just about destroyed the franchise and I hope he knows that he is probably the most hated man in Chicago, nice legacy, the creep belongs in the Hall of Shame.

Conspiracy theory alert!!: We don't know that MLB didn't nudge Reinsdorf along, either overtly, or through writing on the wall. The weird blurriness (which is so uniquely Reinsdorfian) buys him time to save face and get his affairs in order. 

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6 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Conspiracy theory alert!!: We don't know that MLB didn't nudge Reinsdorf along, either overtly, or through writing on the wall. The weird blurriness (which is so uniquely Reinsdorfian) buys him time to save face and get his affairs in order. 

lol he needs to work on that saving face part a little bit 

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