Talk:Question for White Sox Fans/@comment-64.252.3.81-20060408163243

I remember awhile back that the White Sox ownership dumped salary while they were still in the playoff hunt. I found this from the CNNSI site: The White Sox were only 3 1/2 games behind Cleveland at the trade deadline in 1997, but Chicago general manager Ron Schueler, at the direction of owner Jerry Reinsdorf, decided to unload rather than add veteran talent. Fans were outraged by the fire sale; players were shocked. Reinsdorf, whom many Sox fans still blamed for his role in the labor negotiations that precipitated the 1994 strike, was vilified. Attendance at Comiskey Park dropped from 1.87 million in 1997 to 1.39 million in &quot;99.