FILE - Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf during a baseball news conference Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) AP

To the kinds of news that have become more or less familiar — late news, breaking news, fake news — the White Sox have added non-news; that is, news that seems to be news but is, like the tale told by an idiot, earnest gibberish signifying nothing,

If I may, let me put this is the form of a press release, under White Sox letterhead:

“Nothing happening for four years. And maybe not then.”

And yet for those of us who must pay attention to such things the task is obligatory. Questions must be asked, if only rhetorically, theoretically and incidentally.

Q — Are the White Sox being sold?

A — Being put on layaway more like it.

Q

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