NBA, MLB owner blasted after teams have miserable day Concerning the Exit of an Icon
“Don’t waste your time on the Reinsdorf owned teams”
If you’re a fan of a team owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, chances are that you didn’t have a lot of fun as a sports fan on Friday night.
The Chicago Bulls had their season come to an end in the NBA Play-In Tournament game against the Miami Heat. Miami opened up a 34-17 lead on Chicago in the first quarter and never looked back from there, winning 112-91 to earn the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Reinsdorf’s Chicago White Sox, meanwhile, had a dismal day as well, losing 7-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies. Ordinarily, it’s tough to compare a baseball team’s loss in April to a season-ending game in another sport. But the loss moved the Chicago White Sox to 3-16 on the year and as miserable as that record is, it doesn’t really begin to tell the story of how bad things have been for the South Siders.
And while the stakes weren’t nearly as high for MLB’s Chicago White Sox, they had a disastrous day, as well, losing 7-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies, dropping to 3-16 in what’s been a miserable season.
Both teams — and Reinsdorf — came under heavy fire on Friday.
The only thing the Chicago White Sox seem to be hitting this season is rock bottom.
On Friday, the White Sox were shut out in a 7-0 affair against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pa.
The shutout defeat was the White Sox’s third such loss over their last six games. It’s also their seventh of the season through their first 19 contests — a dishonorable mark no other team has matched since 1901.
The White Sox have plated just 38 runs in total, which ranks dead last in the majors by a wide margin. The team through Friday has scored 20 fewer runs than the 29th-placed Oakland A’s, whose dysfunction as a franchise has been well-documented.
The White Sox also lost their best hitter this season Yoan Moncada to a serious left adductor strain. The third baseman was placed on the 60-day injured list earlier this week.
Moncada led the team with his .282 batting average but had zero RBIs across 11 games played this season. The White Sox’s primary starting lineup has hit below the Mendoza line heading into the team’s 20th contest.
