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Mailbag is the nothing personal word of the day. We are giving you a mailbag episode

that's when you come to us with any question you have on any topic you can get to us on apple by rating and reviewing and putting a question in the review.

You can go on Twitter, David P. Samson or Instagram David P. Samson. We'll take questions and if they're fun and interesting and coke alike some and I like them, they'll be in the show.

Hey David, we're just going to start because we got plenty to cover.

Love the show. Thanks. That's not why we're answering your question though. I've been a White Sox fan for 40 years and boy you are right about how disappointing this season was.

Nothing but six months of dry heaves. It's funny you say that. Maybe you heard me say that I dry heav when I'm running. I don't know why the season would make you dry heav.

Anyways, I have two questions. One, what is the deal with Rinesdorf? All we know in Chicago is that he's a powerful owner. That's the owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox.

All we know in Chicago is that he's a powerful owner who runs possibly the least transparent organization MLB. Well, I'll stop you there. The White Sox are far from the least transparent organization, a majorly baseball far.

You got to go to the West Coast where the weather's 72 in sunny every day. We love him for 05 back to the question. Hate him for the 94 and 97 94 strike in the 97 White Flag trade.

What are your impressions of the man and his ownership style? Okay. So many listeners from nothing personal are live in Chicago or fans of the White Sox or the Cubs get a lot of questions about Rinesdorf.

I think the basis of the most questions is when I told you what Jerry Rinesdorf had told me or I said it on a radio show. I don't remember exactly where I said it.

When I first was in the game and I had known Jerry Rinesdorf for many years, but I was young and I was a Nick Fan and I knew him as the owner of the Bulls and he knew me as a crazy rabid Heckler.

He recognized when I was going to become executive vice president, the expose and be a part of the exposed organization.

And there was a time that he would told me in a very matter of fact way that the smartest way to operate is to finish in second place every year.

Because then your fans have hope because you're so close to first place and you don't blow your wad. That's not exactly the words he used by winning it all and then it's disappointment from then on.

If you don't repeat because fans for whatever reason expect you to win the World Series every single year.

And I went public with that because it was an interesting thought and I thought about that during the course of my career and I understood the nuance of what he was saying and people misunderstood.

He was not tanking every year to finish in second place.

He's trying to win his division, trying to get into the playoffs, trying to win a World Series with love to have as many World Series as his Bulls team have championships.

He has six rings, one for the thumb, the other thumb just from the Bulls.

But what he was saying is that fans are very interesting in baseball and I've come to realize that both inside baseball and outside baseball.

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