Dense

He just doesn’t get it. White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf thinks people should think of him the way he does. I don’t think so. Reinsdorf graced reporters with his presence on Monday during the winter meetings in Nashville. The human sphynx wanted to talk about Jim Leyland, newly elected to the HOF. Leyland started off his major-league coaching career under Tony LaRussa. Reinsdorf said he offered Leyland the Sox managing job after Jerry Manual was let go in 2003. Tribune sports’ columnist Paul Sullivan says it was after Terry Bevington got the boot. [Trib column yesterday] If Reinsdorf is right, Leyland chose the Marlins instead, and he won a World Series in 1997. If Sullivan is right, Leyland went to Detroit, where he won two pennants. I wonder why he didn’t come to Chicago. Oh, right, Jerry Reinsdorf would’ve been his boss. It takes a certain kind of person willing to accept that, like La Russa or Mickey Mouse. As Reinsdorf himself knows, there aren’t a lot of those types around.