Every day the White Sox cling to the status quo, the conundrum lingers on the South Side as nostalgia nudges one of baseball's most disappointing teams closer to irrelevance.
Loyalty, more than anything, explains why the Sox continue to employ Robin Ventura as manager midway through his fourth season despite compiling baseball's second-worst record since 2013. It must be why.
The decade Ventura spent winning Gold Gloves for the Sox as a third baseman from 1989-98 obviously still resonates in Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf's heart, which seems to have overruled his head recently. Ask anybody who has worked with Reinsdorf to describe arguably Chicago's greatest sports owner ever in a word and, chances are, loyal will be the one offered most.