4 potential drawbacks to report that Jerry Reinsdorf will sell the Chicago White Sox

This happy news comes with four drawbacks...

Stewart has been trying to bring a franchise to Nashville.

It could mean he is pivoting away from bringing an expansion team to the Music City and instead relocating a current franchise to Nashville.

While it would not make the best business sense to move a team out of the third biggest media market, the Sox do share the Chicago market with the Cubs. The Cubs are routing the Sox in fan attention and drawing power.

In Nashville, the Sox would not have to share potentially over a million households, nor would they have the threat of an old-time ballpark like Wrigley Field to draw away from a potential fan base.

Plus, Nashville is a growing city with great tourism.

However, this could be a ploy to put pressure on lawmakers to fund Jerry's ambitions for a new stadium.

This would be a new play Reinsdorf would be running out of his "getting the public to build him a new stadium" playbook. He nearly moved the team to Tampa in the late 1980s before Springfield finally agreed to foot the bill for New Comiskey Park, now Guaranteed Rate Field.

It is not like the threat of moving out of the city is new to this franchise either.

Jerry did meet with the mayor of Nashville during last year's winter meetings. Stewart reportedly has the backing of some deep-pocketed folks that he could leverage to buy the team. If he can come up with $3.5 billion to buy a club, he could find a way to privately finance a new park in Nashville.

He also has been speculated to want to bring baseball back to Oakland as he tried to buy half of the Oakland Coliseum. Oakland did have viable new stadium projects for the A's to pursue if the Athletics' owner was authentic in wanting to stay.

Jerry could float that he could sell to a guy who easily could up and move to markets wanting baseball unless Reinsdorf is secured public financing to build a new park on the 78.