CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox fans who chanted “Sell the team” at Guaranteed Rate Field this summer might get their wish after all. According to a report Wednesday in The Athletic, Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf has changed his stance about keeping the team he has owned since 1981 and is in “active discussions” with a group led by Dave Stewart, the former major league pitcher who starred under manager Tony La Russa in Oakland. Stewart’s group has been active in trying to get an expansion team for Nashville, Tenn.
, the city the Sox have been linked to as a possible destination if they decided to move. A Sox spokesman told the Chicago Tribune’s LaMond Pope “we don’t comment on rumors and speculation.” Reinsdorf and the late Eddie Einhorn led a group that purchased the Sox from Bill Veeck for $20 million in January 1981, and he has been the longest-tenured owner in the game for years.
The Sox recently were valued at $2.05 billion, according to a Forbes report in March. Reinsdorf has long insisted he wasn’t interested in selling the Sox, telling reporters in August 2023 that he’s often asked about it.
“Friends of mine have said: ‘Why don’t you sell? Why don’t you get out?’ ” Reinsdorf said. “My answer always has been: ‘I like what I’m doing, as bad as it is, and what else would I do?’ “I’m a boring guy. I don’t play golf.
I don’t play bridge. And I want to make it better before I go.” But the possibility of that happening in the n.
