Jerry Reinsdorf is one of the key architects of 1/
Before we get into that, let's look at the White Sox. He bought them 4/
And, he owns the Bulls too. I don't know much about basketball, but I watched The Last Dance. 5/
The Union was doing what? It proposed 114 games, 89 games, and kept asking for more games, yet it was the Union. And, Nightingale posts this quote without any background 7/
But, that's not enough. Nightingale continues with more propaganda. He'll just publish it. 8/
More games. That's what Reinsdorf wanted all along. You'd think as one of the 9/
“I don’t think the game was [best-] served by all of the acrimony.’’
Again, this is from one of the chief architects of collusion, who was responsible for not agreeing to CBAs each time they were renegotiated 10/
There's a throw away line about how Reinsdorf gets a 11/
Let's visualize: 100,000,000. At least $100 million. Losses. Is the for him alone? It's written that way, because it goes on to talk about the Bulls having played 75% of their season. 13/
“I don’t know how much money we are going to lose. There are just so many unknowns. When we had the long layoffs in ’81 and ’94..." 14/
The whole thing is an embarrassment. Reporting is not supposed to be giving someone a platform to just say what they want and publish it. Someone has to provide context, to fact 15/