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SCOOP: Jerry Reinsdorf, the chair and majority owner of the Chicago White Sox, was spotted walking out of Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s office on Tuesday.

Reinsdorf is in the Music City for the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings, where team owners meet to make trades and sign free agents.

Why it’s curious: There’s been talk for months that Reinsdorf is looking to move the Sox from Guaranteed Rate Field when the team’s lease expires in six years.

He’s refuted the idea … but: Reinsdorf recently acknowledged, “If we have six years left, we’ve got to decide what’s the future going to be?” according to MLB.com.

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Another shakedown coming to Chicago from Jerry.

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Sad part is, he'll be healthy as a horse in 6 years.

Uncle Jerry will soon fade from the public eye like Mama Bear has over the past year.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

But I was told the Brewers were going to Nashville.

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Good riddance.

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I've just about had enough with him and this team.

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And men have lost their reason.

Wait till they have the 2nd worst record in baseball next year and are picking 10th in the draft

The Arlington Heights site makes far more sense for every imaginable reason but ultimately Chicago will have no choice but to give them a billion dollar stadium if the Bears are in fact moving.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Any shakedown attempt is going to be greeted with laughter.

For someone who is moving, he sure has been buying a lot of land on the near west side.

Don't you fucking get weak kneed on me.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

“Lifelong fan” Bernstein said he wouldn’t care if they left.

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Does anyone actually buy that the Chicago White Sox are headed out of town? I seem to recall something similar happening in the 90's but substitute Tampa-St. Pete for Nasvhille. My dad's dog-track buddies down along Sarasota-Bradenton area actually seemed excited by the prospect of the White Sox main team being just up the street in Tampa. iirc, the White Sox farm team played in that area at the time. Never happened, Tampa got the Devil Rays and White Sox a new stadium.

Last I paid attention Nashville's MLB expansion team was still looking for a deep-pockets billionaire to back the project. Maybe Mark Cuban can be enticed to use some of his Mav's sale proceeds to lend some financial backing to a Nashville MLB team. The financial backer thing is probably how Salt Lake City will end up with an MLB franchise. Hurricanes owner throws in Charlotte could steal the MLB team from Nashville; Charlotte's a bigger TV market too.

If it happens they'll go to Arlington Heights. A baseball stadium would fit easily on the property with the Bears and it would increase the value for the Bears significantly since the bars/restaurants/KFC would be full an extra 81+8 playoff games a year.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Arlington Heights is Cubs Country

Build a stadium in Country Club Hills.

A FINAL NOTE ABOUT Chair Jer' and Nashville:

Since 2019, a group called "Music City Baseball," headed by businessman John Loar, has been aggressively seeking a team for the nation's 35th-largest metropolitan statistical area.

A baseball adviser to the consortium?

None other than Tony La Russa, the Baseball Hall of Famer who so pathetically brought a lengthy White Sox rebuild crashing down with his "Sleepy Senor" act in 2022.