January 29, 201511 yr Christopher Kamka @ckamka 46m46 minutes ago This day in #WhiteSox history 1981: AL owners approve sale of team to group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn
January 29, 201511 yr I wish Veeck could have sold to Edward DeBartolo. But the AL owners blocked the sale. No threaten to leave Chicago, no Hawk as GM, no Sox only on pay TV. Oh, what could have been. Edited January 29, 201511 yr by woods of ypres
January 30, 201511 yr I think the biggest mistake JR made was the handling of the new stadium. He orginally had an offer from the City of Chicago to build a new stadium in the South Loop at Roosevelt and Clark. He rejected the offer and wanted to build a stadium in Addison on land JR owned. When that didn't work out, the offer from the city was off the table. They wound up at the present location. If JR would of taken the South Loop offer, there would of been no threat of the team moving to Florida. The franchise would of been better off in the South Loop. JR is directly responsible for the upper deck fiasco. He wanted another level of suites. Nobody wants to sit in the upper deck. He wound up building a stadium where it should not of been built and he built a stadium where nobody wants to sit in the upper deck. All in all, not a good legacy for this ownership. His legacy will be much better with the Bulls that what it will be with the White Sox.
January 30, 201511 yr QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 12:00 PM) Christopher Kamka @ckamka 46m46 minutes ago This day in #WhiteSox history 1981: AL owners approve sale of team to group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn And 34 years later, how has this "group" done? Only five playoff appearances - 5, out of 34 years! - and of those, only one meaningful. The other four? Quite forgettable, unfortunately - only four wins across those four appearances. (And people wonder why the Sox have attendance issues!) And yet, Dan Hayes of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago has the absolute nerve last week to pen a full page article trumpeting the so-called "aggressiveness" and "competitiveness" of Mr. Reinsdorf throughout these past 34 years. Oh really? There is no doubt there were many years when that assertion could be called into question. I mean, GMAFB, already. The record speaks for itself, sadly. Sorry, but very much looking forward to the next "AL owners approve sale of team" message. Edited January 30, 201511 yr by Thad Bosley
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