Mr. Richard Lindberg’s letter of last week (“Other Views,” Tribune, Feb. 21) is presumptuous. Of course there are no prospective buyers for the White Sox. They’re not for sale. The point for Sox fans is that in more than 20 years of ownership, Mr. Jerry Reinsdorf has not delivered and is not the impact owner he represented himself to be when he acquired the team.
Only the heretofore pitiful record of the Cubs has kept the ineptitude of the White Sox off the radar. With the awakening of the Cubs, who won more playoff games last season than the White Sox have won in more than 80 years, it is clear the Sox are becoming not only mediocre but irrelevant.
The loss of market share in Chicago has followed the taxpayer-funded stadium which Mr. Reinsdorf stated as a condition of the team being able to attract and retain top-notch talent. You only get one chance to build a stadium for free, and because of location and design, this opportunity was blown.
To win, a team must either be astute at identifying and developing talent or willing to buy it. The White Sox are neither, as the record shows. As long as he is running this operation with his small-market mentality, this franchise is condemned to mediocrity.
