Please Sign

Back in the spring or early summer of 1988, we attended a White Sox game where team employees (I’m pretty sure the idea of unpaid interns hadn’t caught on yet) stood outside Comiskey Park asking people to sign a petition. It was to keep the team in Chicago. Being difficult by nature, I asked why we weren’t being asked to keep the team in Comiskey Park. You’d think I was asking for a million-dollar handout. Next! We’re about six weeks from Opening Day. I wonder if another group of young people, interns this time for sure, will be outside Guaranteed Rate Whatever circulating a petition to keep the Sox in Chicago. Like the first time, that will mean a boatload of public money to pay for a private stadium. And like the first time, dissent will not be encouraged. Because to question means to betray. Or so thinks one owner.