Family Ties

The White Sox are the Bears are the White Sox. Mickey Mouse is Matt Eberflus is Mickey Mouse. Chris Getz looks to be Ryan Poles, well, you get the idea. The above when organizations suffer from decades of dysfunction starting at the top and flowing down to every level of activity. Adam Dunn? Mitch Trubisky. Tony LaRussa? Marc Trestman. Guaranteed Rate Whatever? Arlington Heights pie-in-the-sky. The Mouse-Eberflus connection is downright scary. Each in-over-his-head character mouths the same platitudes about togetherness and preparation leading to wins that never happen. Each loss leads to a doubling down on platitudes. With the Sox racing to 100-plus losses and the Bears intent on the football version thereof, that’s a lot of platitudes, folks. And this week we have a football team where the young quarterback points the finger at coaching as a reason for his poor performance, then backtracks, and the defensive coordinator retires out of the blue for reasons that are nobody’s business. However will the Munsters get the public assistance they want for their stadium complex? The good news is, if things keep going this way, they won’t.