Jerry Reinsdorf
apparently never read Thomas Wolfe. The
way Reinsdorf has been acting lately, not only does he believe you can go home
again, he thinks people he used to employ can, too, even if they were fired.
Forget his kind words
for ex-White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen earlier this summer; those didn’t
include a welcome back to the organization.
This week’s announcement about the Bulls’ rehiring of Doug Collins,
though, comes with a full pardon.
Collins, fired after
the Bulls’ exit in the 1989 NBA playoffs, is going to be some sort of senior
advisor in the front office, a poor man’s Jerry West, if you will. But there’s more going on here. Really, this is what happens when a sports’
mogul hits his eighties, the regrets refuse to shut up until they receive
proper attention. So, Reinsdorf (kind
of) makes peace with Guillen and finds a spot with the Bulls for Collins, who
always struck me as a decent if hyperemotional sort. I just have one question.
How do you say you’re
sorry to the ballpark you so needlessly tore down?
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