Disappearing Act

The White Sox are living on borrowed time, coverage-wise. Either they keep playing winning baseball, or they go the way of the Cubs, which right now is out of sight, out of mind. Sunday night WGN TV sports’ anchor Jarrett Payton—being the son of Walter apparently his only qualification for the job—declared that Chicago would go wild if the Bears beat the Packers, who happen to be their next opponent. It would be more accurate to say the Chicago media would go wild. Yesterday, I watched one sports’ segment on local television that ignored there were two baseball clubs still playing. Over at the Alden Global Capital Tribune, it’s as bad, or worse. Today’s hardcopy sports’ section used the AP story on the Cubs beating the Mets in New York. Over on the website, they ran the same story, without identifying its origins. Chicago sports is a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to team coverage, and the Munsters have an enormous advantage for reasons that escape me. Oh, well. Win or die. Or disappear.