Pathetic, with a Capital P

This being Friday, the once-mighty Chicago Tribune ran its now-customary six-page sports’ section, all the news that fits, I guess. But if I went to the e-edition, I could “check out a 4-page digital-only World Series preview.” They shouldn’t have bothered. Page one consisted of photos, the World Series trophy most of all. Page two featured a story on Dusty Baker pulled from the Sacramento Bee. Page three was a Philadelphia Inquirer story on the Phillies, which left page four for an AP piece on Bryce Harper and Mike Trout. Obviously, not worth the paper it could’ve been printed on. In some ways, this is karma. The Tribune under the longtime auspices of Colonel Robert R. McCormick was a reactionary powerhouse the envy of Rupert Murdoch. How the mighty of fallen. A paper that all but created the All-Star Game on its own is now reduced to cut-and-paste on the internet for its World Series preview. There was a decent story in the sports’ section proper on the Series, but there should’ve been a whole lot more. Regrettably, those days are long gone, like the Colonel.