When he croaks, the entire ballpark will boo, and rightfully so. Under that jack-ass's ownership of nearly 40 years, there have been only 5 postseason appearances. That is with them increasing the available slots in the AL from 2 to 4 and then to 5.

He took the Sox off of OTA TV and put them on SportsVision, a move that can only be compared to what Wirtz did with the Hawks home blackouts. That move single handledly turned Chicago from a Sox-Cubs 50/50 split or even a slightly leaning Sox city into becoming the Cubs city it is today. The damage that son of a b*tch did to this franchise will take generations to undo.

You bet your ass I'll boo his moment of silence. I'll have tens of thousands joining me too.

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like I said, I get it. I didn't want to hear that Andrew Golata was a big, dumb, blunt instrument only good for hard labor...then I met him

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He also fired LaRussa (well, we know who did the actual firing) and by 1986, was already someone the fans disliked.

"My conscience is clear."

Pick your two favorite pro sports teams. Do you think those two teams over the next 40 years will combine for 7 championships?

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You keep missing the point entirely Oogie. Its not the booing of Jerry that is the issue. It's the fact that you are already making your plans for how and when to boo him.

Booing during a moment of silence for anyone (within reason) is classless, imo. But its a free country, do what you want.

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We need to hear from China if he can do that.

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Sure, if they back into having Michael Jordan.

If he wants to open up his pocket book and spend on some pitching, I'll reconsider, but I have 40 years of history to tell me that this jackass won't do that. He'll do a repeat of what he did last winter and pretend to go after free agents only to finish 2nd in the bidding behind some middling mid-market team like the Padres.

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Again, his ownership of the Sox is independent of his ownership of the Bulls.

The Bulls fan experience is second to none and has been from the beginning. He designed a pretty great stadium that has effectively kept that is a staple of the neighborhood. He won six championships.

I wouldn't say the two are night and day but they are different...and guess what sport JR is much more hands on with?

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For that to be fair, you have to take away any championship(s) won with the best player they had.

Hopefully Robert Kraft finally wins a title that counts.

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Even with that, he has been at worst an average baseball owner, and winning one title pretty much locks him into that even with a poor last decade.

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That doesn't work because the Patriots acquired Brady under Kraft's ownership.

The Bulls already had MJ when Reinsdorf bought them.

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He's terrible. 40 years, 1 title, like 3 playoffs. nearly last in attendance and viewership most of the time.

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He's in a division with a bunch of mid-market midgets who don't spend on free agents and consistently lose every good player they develop to free agency. He has no excuse not to be in contention for the division every year.

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also he literally sabotaged a team that was a title contender in 1994.

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That seems pretty arbitrary. If MJ was such a sure thing then Jerry was a genius for buying the team just as he was getting started.

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Well no one is disputing that Reinsdorf is a good businessman

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You'll have to support that position with some facts. Sure 1/38 is better than 0/? but how many other owners have had that amount of opportunity to succeed. Tease team success ratio out beyond WS titles and the record really starts to come into focus. Even in the division the Twins, Royals, Tigers and Indians have all had an identifiable period of supremacy in the division over the last 40 years. The Sox have never won back to back division titles

Without any research and just off the top of my head over the last 40 years: they Royals have appeared in 2+ WS; The Twins 2+; The Indians 1 which they would have won but for a magical incantation to the rain gods; The Tigers at least one.

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As Jermaine Dye said, the A's were never worried about the White Sox because the White Sox never made the playoffs. The team that caught their attention was the Twins, who once again are in the playoffs. The division has basically been the Tribe and Twins show, with some interludes by KC and Detroit.

That's pathetic.

In the WC era, the Royals have not won back to back divisions.

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But they won back to back pennants

38 years

but more importantly, they played in back to back WS. That is an identifiable period of supremacy.

Edit: just looked it up. In the last 38 years KC has 3 WS appearances but appeared in a 4th in '80, the year before JR

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Admittedly I'm placing a high value on actually winning the World Series. In terms of playoff appearances and sustained success I don't think the White Sox can compete well with the Twins and Indians in terms of regular season success.

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The Royals have been in the postseason in back-to-back years (2014-2015)

The White Sox have never done that, even with expanded playoff opportunities.


They could have in 1994, but you'll never guess what Uncle Jerry did that year.

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In the last 38 years:

KC: 3 WS appearances and 2 titles
Twins: 2 appearances 2 titles
Tigers: 3 appearances 1 title
Indians: 3 appearances 0 titles because of Jason Heyward's magic

The JR record looks far worse than I imagined after a little research.

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the lack of playoff appearances is unbelievably bad considering how easy it is to make the playoffs over the past 20 years or so. In the weakest division in baseball!

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It pisses me off more because Cleveland and Minnesota have been able to to rebuild multiple times and then enjoy more sustained success.

The Twins haven't won a playoff game since like 2002 or something like that. They just got swept by the Yankees....again. The Tigers won the World Series in '84, and the Royals in '85. How many WS appearances do those teams have since 1990? The Braves won 74 Division Titles in a row, yet have the same amount of World Series rings as Jerry. Would you rather division titles and Wild Card games, or Championships?

And those are the only two playoff appearances they have had since 1985. Let's not pretend that they were some juggernaut. They had a young core that got real good at the same time and they road those two years as hard as they could. Their playoff history is even worse than the Sox over the last 25 years believe it or not.

If the Sox get good again real soon and win another World Series, everything else Jerry does gets swept under the rug and he is remembered as perhaps the greatest Baseball owner in Chicago history. It would be hard not to argue at that point.


Edit- I looked it up. The last Twins October victory was game 1 of the 2004 ALDS. Since, they have lost 16 consecutive postseason games.

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Which is odd because he’s such a huge baseball fan you’d think he’d do anything to win every chance he gets .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

The Cleveland freakin Indians, the team they make movies about sucking, have 3 WS appearances. The Marlins rebuilt into two absolutely dominant WS teams from nothing.

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