Compare and Contrast

The Cubs are having their fan convention this weekend, and it looks to be going well despite wet snow yesterday followed by deepening cold the rest of the weekend. Weather never gets in the way of true believers. Newly signed free agent Shota Imanaga made a favorable impression speaking English, which I’m betting is about as easy as me speaking Japanese would be. The thirty-year old lefty quoted a few lines of “Go, Cubs, Go” and said one or two other things without an interpreter. Both smart and endearing. The White Sox, meanwhile, have borrowed a page from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”—they don’t need no stinkin’ fan convention. For that matter, they don’t seem to think they need anyone to replace the departed Jason Benetti in the television booth, either. The nice thing about contempt, it goes around, it comes around. Jerry Reinsdorf shows it, Jerry Reinsdorf gets it right back.