JR:Basketball is a Game, Baseball is American
Jerry Reinsdorf: "Basketball is a Game, Baseball is American"
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It’s no secret that this offseason is harkening back woeful memories of the
earl to mid-2000′s for Bulls fans. After consecutively posting the best
record in the NBA in two straight seasons, the Bulls are back to their old
ways of remembering the good ol’ days and promising that things will get
better.
And then there’s Jerry Reinsdorf.
Bulls fans have become increasingly frustrated with his ownership this
offseason as he promptly gutted one of the best benches in the NBA to not
enter the luxury tax for what turns out is no good reason at all.
Reinsdorf has also been all over the place in his priorities with the Bulls.
When the offseason started, the top priority was to re-sign Omer Asik at all
costs. But when that cost turned out to be $25 million, the Bulls changed
history yesterday when they said all along that the top priority was really
getting Kirk Hinirch back in Chicago.
Then this morning, allegedly, Reinsdorf was quoted on the Chicago White Sox
Twitter account as saying, “Basketball is just a game. Baseball is a
religion, baseball is American.”
Now unlike a lot of people banging the gavel and calling for Jerry’s blood
to run red in the streets of Chicago, I could care less about his love of
baseball over basketball. People are entitled to play favorites; parents
claim they don’t do it with multiple siblings and when you own multiple
sports teams, you try to not say you like one more than the other.
But it’s Jerry’s money and if he wants to let it be known that he is
willing to spend over $100 million on the White Sox and barely $75 million on
the Bulls, then that’s his right to do it.
I’m not angry that he prefers baseball to basketball. He’s got a point when
he says baseball is American, just look at the game’s history. It’s go
engrained and intertwined with American history that it’s hard to not call
it The American Pastime — because it is. Basketball will never have the
heritage that baseball has and if it ever does, it’s going to take a long
time.
What should anger Bulls fans is not that Jerry picked the Sox over their
precious Bulls, it’s that Jerry’s favoritism is holding back another team
while the other gets all the love.
If you want to be a baseball owner, that’s fine. Go ahead and be the best
baseball owner you can be. But don’t syphon money from another organization
to be that baseball owner. Jerry doesn’t even have to fully sell the team,
he just has to put people in charge that are capable of not having a biased
look on things.
This latest quote, if it’s indeed authentic from Reinsdorf, explains
everything that has had Bulls fans in a tizzy all offseason long.
The Bulls are essentially Harry Potter, stuffed into a bedroom under the
staircase while the White Sox are that fatass Dudley kid that gets everything
he wants because the parents like him.
The Bulls gutted their Bench Mob, a unit that was one of the NBA’s best
benches, to save literally a few thousand dollars. The White Sox traded for
Kevin Youkilis, Boston’s golden child and a fan favorite. The Bulls
consistently sell out games and have been doing so since the days of Jordan.
The White Sox have sputtered into obscurity since winning the World Series
and a massive storyline with them this season is how hard it is to fill the
seats at U.S. Cellular.
The question then needs to be be asked: is Reinsdorf purposefully holding
personal assets from the Bulls because he has it earmarked for use with the
Sox?
And this isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s business. Reinsdorf has made
roughly $1 billion from the Bulls but he very rarely puts that money back
into the team. Yes he resigned Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Luol Deng to
massive extensions but when it came this year to really laying down the money
and detecting yourself to winning a seventh championship, Reinsdorf ran into
the dark with his bag of cash.
But don’t worry Bulls fans, it was a basketball decision to do that and you’
re all idiots and will believe that. Or so goes the thinking of Reinsdorf.
So not only has he not put money back into his cash cow, but he’s insulting
the intelligence of his fan base (and cash flow) by assuming they’ll eat up
whatever excuse he throws out there.
I’m not one to jump onto bandwagons. Just ask Buccaneers fans how long it
took for me to let the Rah-Rah Raheem Morris ship sail. But with Reisndorf,
the slippery behind-the-doors kind of stuff we have going on here is just to
gross to stomach without vomiting your dignity and intelligence.
Yes, Jerry, basketball is just a game. But money ain’t cheap and if this
kind of behavior continues, it’s going to stop flowing in as freely as it
has been at the United Center.
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2013 Tip.
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很希望可以換老闆啊!
就讓JR專心地去玩他的白襪隊吧!這才是 basketball decision!!!
好啦,純抱怨。
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