According to a story in today’s
The Athletic, White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf will not be firing; furloughing;
or cutting the salaries of fulltime team employees, through June. You would think that would be the default
position of all owners, in which case you’d be wrong.
In baseball, only seven
teams—Cardinals, Orioles, Phillies, Rockies, Sox, Tigers and Twins—are stepping
up to the plate, if you will. The Cubs
are cutting the salaries of employees while the Hawks have suddenly gone all
Bill Wirtz, going with both pay cuts and furloughs. It must be in the genes, which makes me
wonder what the McCaskeys will do to protect the cash level in their money bin.
I dislike Reinsdorf for any number
of reasons, his getting a free stadium first and foremost among them, that and
tearing down a landmark to the clear the way for his mall. But life is more complicated than we like to admit,
and this is one of those times. So, a
tip of the hat to the Chairman for not making like other owners, and for doing
the right thing.
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