For a start I have never liked the way Reinsdorf has handled player negotiations. He's a Manhattan real estate attorney who gets offended if a dopey kid wants an agent or a lawyer's help on deals. He talks about nonsense handshakes and promises. He boycotts agents. He got Frank Thomas into a contract nobody could understand, but the ultimate result was that Thomas got paid if Reinsdorf felt like paying him. He snookered all of baseball with the 10 m contract to that Cleveland goof. He stalled the WS for years by not accepting multi-year pitcher deals.

Anybody notice how the Score got pantsed in this White Sox deal? This last weekend was insane. The NFL draft is ongoing and the station is so jammed with WS Weekly, over-long pre and post game shows, and some silly remote with Don Cooper, that the Score could only put Buffone in for about 45 minutes with a promise that something was finally going to be said on the draft by 8:00pm sunday night.

I understand the contractual obligation for the game, but Reinsdorf obviously has them obligated for all the surrounding WS hype or they would have gone away from it last weekend.

No baseball game is worth all this pre and post talk. Don Cooper is no celebrity. There is no need for an in-season weekly show when the team is already getting maybe 35 hours of air-time per week.

Reinsdorf pantsed WSCR, CBS, and all their lawyers just like he pantses the single diget Wunderlick kids. One hell of a negotiator, I guess.

There was a reason why there was so much White Sox on 670 "The SCORE" last Saturday instead of the NFL Draft. The Sox & Orioles played a stupid day/night doubleheader at U.S. Cellular Field, which I have NEVER been a fan of. It not only messed up "The SCORE's" broadcast schedule, but it also messed up whatever Comcast SportsNet was planning to air that afternoon. From what I have read, WSCR pays about $2.5 million a year to carry the Sox broadcasts under the terms of their contract. It's a lot less than what WMVP paid to carry the Sox & Bulls as part of the Walt Disney Company/ABC Radio sale to become ESPN Radio 1000 in 1998. As for Don Cooper, I think WSCR management believes that the Sox pitching coach has always been a good talker whenever he's been on. As for "White Sox Weekly," it doesn't seem as necessary to devote as much time to the team when they've been struggling since the end of the 2006 season. I mean an hour or two before a Saturday Sox game...Puh-leeze!

Oh, the irony.

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Coach, I knew diget was wrong and I made a pure guess at Wunderlick, which I take to be some German's name which could be spelled about a dozen different ways. I'm not dumb, but I can be lazy.

Anyway, I'll accept that that the Score didn't pay much in cash, what they got robbed of is airtime.

I don't like Jerry Reinsdorf or the Chicago White Sox, but I don't understand the fuss here. A game was rained out. It had to be made up. The Score has an agreement to cover White Sox games. It was unfortunate that it screwed up their draft coverage, I guess (if you care about the draft. I don't), but they couldn't move the Sox coverage. Maybe they could've moved some of the Bears draft coverage to 780. Did they?

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