Fiddling

The White Sox absolutely stink right now, to the point where Jayson Stark in The Athletic thinks they have a good shot at losing more games than the 40-120 ’62 Mets. As for the Bulls, they need to win a game on the road tonight against the Heat in order to qualify as an eight-seed in the NBA playoffs, which means their one game shy of mediocre. And what is the owner of the Sox and Bulls doing about any of this? According to a story in today’s Sun-Times, Jerry Reinsdorf is getting reading to launch a regional sports network featuring both his teams along with the Blackhawks. Not one of those teams is playing .500, folks. Maybe Reinsdorf is planning to ask for public funding to get his project off the ground. Nothing would surprise me.