A Modest Proposal

Last night at Yankee Stadium, the White Sox recorded loss #100 by an 8-1 score. I expect loss #101 to happen tonight. Here’s an idea for when the current collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of next season—instead of focusing on a nonstarter like a salary cap, why don’t owners discipline their own ranks with a form of receivership/trusteeship or a compulsory-sale formula? Oh, I know why they won’t, but the idea would be wildly popular with fans and players. In terms of receivership/trusteeship, it used to happen all the time with clubs in financial difficulty; think Brooklyn Dodgers. How fitting if the team of Jerry Reinsdorf, more a Dodgers’ fan than he ever has been a Sox fan, should be placed into the same status. Or just forcing the team to sell off 10-25 percent of its stock for every season of 100+ losses after, let’s say, three straight seasons of such misery also makes sense. If not to MLB ownership, then everyone else who consider themselves fans of the game.