In 1991, the Chicago White Sox began play at Comiskey Park II. Now, 33 years later, the brain trust of the team has decided that it’s time to leave.
Rumblings about this began last year when Jerry Reinsdorf was reportedly having meetings with the mayor of Nashville about a potential move. Then, early this year we started seeing renderings of what a park could look like at in the South Loop’s The 78.
And this past week, we’ve learned that the team wants the city to provide $1 billion to help build this ballpark.
Now, I’m not an expert, but there seems to be no real reason to move a few miles north when year after year there are tweaks going on at Guaranteed Rate Field to make sure that the facility is up to date.