Reader Jean DuBois said in a recent letter that she gets that by threatening to move the White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf is only doing what a prudent businessman would do. That ignores the fact that he has never cared about the fans who have loyally supported the team. It is about him, nothing or nobody else.
He, like other (not necessarily all) sports owners, likes to use that threat to hold cities hostage if the cities don’t give them what they want. Jim Irsay moving the Colts out of Baltimore in the middle of the night is one such example. If Reinsdorf, who has maintained he “never threatened to move out,” takes the Sox to another city, will he employ the same tactics?
