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Peter Gammons "Reinsdorf, Einhorn shine in '05"

We all want immediate gratification at one time, or another. We want the rotation changed, the manager fired, a new general manager, some head to roll when things don't work the way we imagined they would. It's human nature, and the fuel that drives talk radio.

Some dreams never reach the sky, some wars never end, but in 2005 Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn won the World Series, which Reinsdorf made clear was more gratifying than all the titles he won with the Bulls and Michael Jordan. At the winter meetings in Dallas, Reinsdorf and Einhorn stood together in the lobby and reminisced about the joy of the run, yet with remarkable humility.

"There were years when I thought we had a legitimate shot and very little went right at the right time," said Reinsdorf, the White Sox' chairman of the board. "This year a lot of things turned our way."

Einhorn, the White Sox' vice chairman, recounted the odd twists of events: how not trading Jose Contreras and Joe Crede for A.J. Burnett and Mike Lowell turned out to be a godsend. How they tried so hard to get Tony Graffanino, lost out to Boston, settled on Geoff Blum, and not only did Graffanino make a crucial error in the ALDS, but Blum became a World Series hero. How Orlando Hernandez fell out of the trainer's room to finish off Boston. Or their nemesis, Bartolo Colon, was hurt and the umpires in the ALCS got a little confused. Or the fact that Scott Podsednik, who didn't hit a homer during the regular season, hit two in the postseason with his new maple bat.

"It makes you realize how things have to come together at the right time," said Einhorn.

In the 25 years since buying the White Sox, Reinsdorf and Einhorn have tried a few things that didn't work. The Ken Harrelson/Tony La Russa GM/manager tandem didn't work; Reinsdorf appreciated Hawk's keen mind, and stood by him, and is friends with La Russa to this day. Albert Belle may have been a Hall of Famer in his prime when they signed him after the new labor agreement that Reinsdorf did not favor. But, then when Belle left the White Sox with nothing -- supposedly to sign with the Yankees, allowing Bernie Williams to drift to Boston ... for what amounted to approximately two hours, and in the end signed with the Orioles.

But what characterizes the Reinsdorf/Einhorn White Sox is consistency. Stop me if you've heard this before, but it speaks volumes for their persons and their leadership that most of the folks who work at U.S. Cellular Field across the street from the old Comiskey --scouting and development staff, secretaries, grounds crew, clubhouse attendants, trainers, et al -- have been with them for at least 20 years, some dating back to the days of former owner Bill Veeck. The coaching staff was comprised of ex-White Sox players, and a 20-something year organizational loyalist named Don Cooper.

Manager Ozzie Guillen is close to being Mr. White Sox in the Reinsdorf/Einhorn era. GM Ken Williams was a White Sox bonus baby out of Stanford, and except for a couple of playing years, has spent his adult life working for these owners. Both were bold choices when selected as manager and general manager, and Reinsdorf was wise enough to allow each to be his own intrepid person and do his job; Ron Schueler and Williams are the extent of the White Sox GMs in the last 15 years, which meant that the very talented Dan Evans had to move on.

Ozzie, of course, made the team his own. Williams has turned out to be one of the most aggressive, creative general managers in the business. He knew it was always about pitching, so he grabbed Freddy Garcia and Contreras in an undervalued market and won with them. This winter Williams has struck brilliantly, getting Jim Thome and Javier Vazquez in trades, and creating options if they decide that Jon Garland is too expensive in the final year of his current contract what with his post-A.J. Burnett arbitration value.

Reinsdorf and Einhorn have showed their fellow owners that consistency is the essence of a long-term ownership, and that while some years the best teams don't win (Jerry Dybzinski? Jack McDowell tipping his pitches?), that sometime what's correctly assembled works. For that, they are my baseball men of the year.

Franchises that work are usually stabilized, as George Steinbrenner found out when Gene Michael and Buck Showalter righted the Yankees and the Joe Torre/Bob Watson/Brian Cashman Yankees embarked on a great run. Stability has been the hallmark of the Minnesota Twins, despite never making the final moves. Stability and long-term vision is what Indians owner Paul Dolan allowed GM Mark Shapiro to instill in what quickly became one of the most respected organizations in the business. Oakland has always been about consistency; Sandy Alderson and Billy Beane have been their only GMs for more than 20 years (Beane has been in the organization since Walt Jocketty signed him as a minor league free agent in the winter of 1988-89), Keith Lippman their farm director back to the Charles O. Finley era. The Giants are Peter Magowan and Brian Sabean, the Angels have quickly built a stable presence thanks to Bill Stoneman and Mike Scioscia.

The Wilpons will be the first to admit the Mets paid the price for a period of trying to catch the wind. The Orioles now are trying to right their ship after nearly a decade of circular Angelosian direction. Dan O'Dowd now has tried to define the Rockies' direction after years of trying to figure out how to win at Coors Field.

The Dodgers are on their fifth general manager in a decade, and Ned Colletti is trying to batten down for the long haul that Logan White's scouting staff seemingly has made possible; Colletti has made it clear in his free agent signings of Rafael Furcal, Bill Mueller and Nomar Garciaparra that he doesn't want to wake up in 2009, have a bunch of talented young players blocked by middle-aged players on the back ends of contracts and say, "why did I do that?"

The Red Sox thought that three years into the Theo Epstein administration that they had stability with an organization that won and rebuilt its development system simultaneously, no small accomplishment. Now, with Epstein's return up in the air, two vital front office figures in Josh Byrnes and Peter Woodfork departed and the possible defections of Craig Shipley and Bill Lajoie, the stability is lost, at least temporarily.

In the wake of the year of Reinsdorf and Einhorn, Williams and Guillen, here are the four runners-up for the men of the year in 2005:

• The remarkable team of Dayton Moore (director of player personnel), Roy Clark (director of scouting) and Bobby Cox (manager), administered brilliantly by GM John Schuerholz. Cox may well be the best manager of the last 25 years and 2005 was perhaps his finest hour, but the way Moore, Clark and Cox mesh their immense skills is the heart of what the Braves have been since Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. Had Schuerholz not convinced Braves ownership to open up the vault, Moore would today be the general manager in Boston.

• Bud Selig. Before Selig took over as "interim commissioner" on Labor Day Weekend, 1992, there had been four commissioners in the previous eight years. Has Selig done everything right? Of course not. But baseball then was about a $1.3 billion business. In 2005, it's a $4.7 billion business. More has been accomplished under Selig than in any other administration. Now that the Players' Association, which has been built upon consistency since former union chief Marvin Miller redefined it (and even had to overcome one coup attempt in the '70s), knows that Selig is there in perpetuity, it seems as if the players and owners are beginning to work together after 30 years of cold war, with the World Baseball Classic a hopeful sign of a future relationship and partnership.

• Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Torre and Cashman. For all the craziness that goes on around the South Bronx, they are the fulcrum of the team that has finished first in the AL East for eight consecutive years and has been in the playoffs every year since 1995. The fact that Cashman, in his walk year, refused to trade away future pillars such as Eric Duncan for his own glory told the world all one needs to know about the general manager's real loyalty to the Yankees and their long-term success.

• Roger Clemens. Work, prepare, work, compete, work and drive the same way, day after day, year after year and you have a 1.87 earned run average the year you turn 43.

Albert Pujols could well have been on the list, for his comprehensive daily preparation and routine that has made his first five major league seasons historic. He and Clemens are lessons for all other players, just as the Moore/Clark/Cox relationship is a model for other organizations.

But 2005 was the year of Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn. As they tell it, they really didn't do anything differently this year, but winning validated their 25 years of organizational stability.