Get your favorite White Sox player into the Hall of Fame? Check.
Renew dealings with longtime arch-enemy Scott Boras? Check.
Monitor your Bulls players’ near mutiny against their nutty, new coach? Check.
It’s all part of life’s rich pageant for Chicago’s two-team owner, who doesn’t seem to be slowing down at the age of 81, despite two rebuilds that may not come to fruition any time soon.
With “the Chairman” in Las Vegas for baseball’s winter meetings, here are the three storylines that have put him in the spotlight this week:
Harold Baines controversy
No one complained when former Cub great Ron Santo was voted into the Hall of Fame by a veterans committee in 2011 after some persuasion by committee member Billy Williams, Santo’s friend and former teammate.