I See Your Fred Wilpon And Raise You A Jerry Reinsdorf
This clip is making its rounds on White Sox twitter this morning. I’m trying my hardest not to fly off the handle and compose a rational thought, but that’s damn near impossible right now. The fanbase is LIVID listening to this. Now, I did receive this DM:
and it wasn’t from a prototypical “stoolie” (he told me he has a kid who’s 30 later in the convo) so he might actually have a connection to Reinsdorf himself and we might have to take the clip with a grain of salt. There’s a non-zero chance that it is in fact bullshit. I, however, choose not to buy it.
Why in the fuck would some random asshole from the Marlins go on Dan Lebatard’s show and just happen to make up some bullshit narrative about Jerry Reinsdorf? It’s just too random. That would make ZERO sense. Not unless he holds some mega grudge against Reinsdorf and just wants to watch him burn. That’s the only reasonable explanation I can come up with in Reinsdorf’s favor.
Now, Samspon did say that this happened when he was in his early 30s. He’s 51 now. So Jerry did win a World Series after he allegedly told Sampson all of this. Consider this my one attempt to spin zone this whole mess.
The Red Sox, Cubs, Yankees, and other organizations not named the Mets that rep Barstool’s readership don’t know how good they’ve got it. This is the kinda shit Sox and Mets fans have to deal with. We pour every ounce of our emotion, finances, blood sweat and tears into this team and we have an owner who, by this account at bare minimum, couldn’t give a fuck less about winning. Thank god I’m not a huge basketball fan. I can’t imagine what it’d be like rooting vigorously for TWO Reinsdorf owned teams. That can’t be healthy.
I was having a good morning. This changes that. Now I’m disgusted. Probably going to problem drink today think about how the only thing I give a fuck about in this world will never fully reciprocate. That it’s just gonna dangle a carrot in front of my face like I’m a goddamn mule. It sucks and I wanna take a baseball bat to something.
The only option we have here is to get a cardboard cutout of Jerry Reinsdorf and pluck off a piece of it every time the Sox win until they make the playoffs next year. Go full on Major League on him. Win in spite of him.