“There’s a myth (the front office) had to talk me into it,” Reinsdorf told a pool reporter Thursday. “I wanted to do it just as much as they wanted to do it. It was an easy decision because (if) we didn’t make that decision we were going to be caught in mediocrity and that’s no fun.
“Going through it, it was painful watching the team lose individual games, but I always knew we had a plan and we were working our plan and ultimately the plan was going to work. (Executive vice president) Kenny (Williams) and (general manager) Rick (Hahn), I knew they were going to produce what we needed.