Sad

The Sun-Times and Tribune both had baseball pull-out sections in today’s Sunday paper. Check that. The Sun-Times did a pull-out section while the Trib cut and pasted stuff off the wires and/or internet. Everything in the Times was produced locally. Nothing in the Trib was produced locally, save for Paul Sullivan’s season predictions. If it weren’t for the AP, the Trib would be lost, and we’re not just talking sports. The Times, meanwhile, is probably saving its predictions for Opening Day on Thursday. Instead, it offered a lot of features on the likes of Andrew Benintendi and Dansby Swanson. I learned that Benintendi’s father loves him and Swanson is married to pro soccer player Mallory Swanson. Nothing on Benintendi’s COVID views, though. I was hoping he might share a few research tips. One paper tries, the other pretends, and yet I subscribe to both. Talk about dumb.