Reinsdorf considering selling the White Sox

[MMC]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1846656774281245177

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[x Tame Impala]

Yes please! The CHSN situation has been inexcusably sloppy. The Bulls have been drifting aimlessly in mediocrity and the White Sox have been an outright embrassment to professional sports.

Thanks for the 90's Bulls and the 05 Sox my man! Now GTFO

 

[LadyStanley]

https://sports.yahoo.com/white-sox-owner-jerry-reinsdorf-reportedly-in-discussions-about-selling-team-after-historically-bad-season-214446200.html

Bought team for $20m in 1981. Will have some capital gains.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

As has already been speculated, the name-dropped interested party is a group that pretty blatantly wants to move them to Nashville. Hopefully the risk of destroying his "legacy" (even more than he already has) and the fact that his family still wants Chicagoans to support the Bulls lead to them finding a Chicago buyer instead.

 

[Mightygoose]

Isn't Dave Stewart tied to a group wanting to bring a team to Nashville?

Edit: Saw above post. Apparently yes

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Isn't Dave Stewart tied to a group wanting to bring a team to Nashville?

Edit: Saw above post. Apparently yes

He is no longer in that group.

Report: Jerry Reinsdorf open to selling White Sox, in discussions with Dave Stewart

Jerry Reinsdorf is reportedly open to selling the White Sox, but that only clouds the team's future.

soxmachine.com

...and he’d been working with Music City Baseball, an investment group that has been championing the prospect of landing an expansion team it would call the Nashville Stars, until last November, when he left the group citing “philosophical differences.”

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Reinsdorf providing clicks for the Sun Times at least

 

[Teemu]

Jerry threatening to move the team? Haven't heard that one before

 

[KevFu]

Stewart is also an Oakland native. So he could be looking at Nashville and beating Music City to the punch based on his knowledge of the development of that project...

OR, he could be looking to replace the A's in the East Bay; And would he seek a "branding trade" with Fisher if he did so?

 

[Vegan Knight]

Stewart is also an Oakland native. So he could be looking at Nashville and beating Music City to the punch based on his knowledge of the development of that project...

OR, he could be looking to replace the A's in the East Bay; And would he seek a "branding trade" with Fisher if he did so?

So, Vegas White Sox with Fisher owning and the Athletics in Oakland or more likely Sacramento with Stewart and group owning and bringing Ranadive on board?

Isn't that sort of pie in the sky?

 

[Bjorn Le]

Stewart is also an Oakland native. So he could be looking at Nashville and beating Music City to the punch based on his knowledge of the development of that project...

OR, he could be looking to replace the A's in the East Bay; And would he seek a "branding trade" with Fisher if he did so?

I’m not sure the Giants will ever let another team come to Northern California once the A’s are gone. They’ll assert that it’s all their territory now and block anyone else just as they blocked the A’s from moving to San Jose.

Also doubt Reinsdorf would sell to anyone who doesn’t intend to keep the Sox in Chicago. While it’s been known for awhile that he thinks his family should sell the Sox (and not the Bulls) once he dies, I doubt he would be willing to sell them while alive to someone who will move them.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

A saving grace for Sox fans is that I get a feeling that the family selling to the team to someone obviously planning on moving them would lead to a fan backlash at their remaining portfolio, the Bulls, and that'd make them hesitant to do so.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

The value of the team instantly plummets with a move.

Why would anyone pay Chicago price to put a team in Nashville? And if MLB is intent on expanding, why would they let someone move a team there and line Reinsdorf's pocket, not their own?

 

[Vegan Knight]

The value of the team instantly plummets with a move.

Why would anyone pay Chicago price to put a team in Nashville? And if MLB is intent on expanding, why would they let someone move a team there and line Reinsdorf's pocket, not their own?

I don't think they should move and I don't think they will but this first argument is not genuine.

I hear this argument with the A's also but it's just a wrong argument. There's already a much more popular team in Chicago.

You aren't leaving Chicago market for Nashville, you're leaving the equivalent of maybe 30% of the Chicago market for Nashville.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

I don't think they should move and I don't think they will but this first argument is not genuine.

I hear this argument with the A's also but it's just a wrong argument. There's already a much more popular team in Chicago.

You aren't leaving Chicago market for Nashville, you're leaving the equivalent of maybe 30% of the Chicago market for Nashville.

30% of the Chicago CSA is nearly 3 million people. The entire Nashville market is just over 2 million, and it doesn't have fanbase that spans generations already built up.

 

[Vegan Knight]

30% of the Chicago CSA is nearly 3 million people. The entire Nashville market is just over 2 million, and it doesn't have fanbase that spans generations already built up.

I agree with you they should, and I believe they will, find a way to stay in Chicago as I think it would be better for them, honestly I don't see a real possibility the move at all.

I'm just saying it wouldn't be leaving the full force of a 9-10 million market for a 2.5 million one. The Cubs being a juggernaut right there would play a role in their decision making.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

The thing is that the Sox have been so idiotically run for generations that they're more or less the poster boy for leaving money on the table. Leave the south and west sides and suburbs, and their fanbase numbers fall off a cliff due to decades of the team not even trying to cultivate fanbases in Northern, Central, and Southern Illinois and in Indiana, which one would think should be fertile grounds for a Chicago AL team. Hell, they should've been going after Cards fans in Southern Illinois and Little Egypt as an AL team given that it seems like an easy sell to a fanbase that doesn't like the Cubs or Royals.

A new ownership group in Nashville would probably make more money, but the thing is that a new ownership group in Chicago would probably make even more money, too.

 

[Voight]

As has already been speculated, the name-dropped interested party is a group that pretty blatantly wants to move them to Nashville. Hopefully the risk of destroying his "legacy" (even more than he already has) and the fact that his family still wants Chicagoans to support the Bulls lead to them finding a Chicago buyer instead.

I dont think the MLB would allow it given the teams history.

Yes, the A's were a much more successful franchise but they had moved twice before and I just think this situations different. White Sox moved once and have been in Chicago for over 120 years.