Riddle Me This

Another game, another loss for the Mouseketeers, 3-2 to the Rangers last night. That’s nine in a row in case you’re counting, just one game behind the pace set by those ’62 Mets. But enough of that. How about this—there was a public Jerry Reinsdorf sighting yesterday. Propelled by a weird combination of tone deafness and keen sense of irony, Reisndorf showed up at the unveiling of a $7 billion redevelopment plan for the area around the United Center. Wait, there’s more. It involves developing a good portion of that sea of parking surrounding the home of the Bulls and Blackhawks, and it won’t involve public funding. Say what? The man who wants a free stadium for his other team and who won’t extend the star pitcher of said team and has never seemed interested in redeveloping any of that 70 acres of parking in the vicinity of 35th and Shields all of a sudden wants to underwrite a mega development on the Near West Side? If it didn’t hurt so much to laugh, I would.