Two
weeks ago, a Chicago sportscaster reported on a rift in the White Sox front
office; GM Rick Hahn reportedly wants to start rebuilding while team v.p. Kenny
Williams doesn’t. Sox owner Jerry
Reinsdorf was so upset that news of disharmony had reached the public that he
crawled out from under his rock to tell said sportscaster over the phone how
everyone in the Sox front office was “100 percent in lockstep” over the team’s
future. What an interesting use of
language.
For
the second time this week I broke out my Webster’s dictionary to check on a
definition. Definition #1 says lockstep
is a kind of marching with “a body of men going one after another as closely as
possible.” Definition #2 says it’s “a
standard method or procedure that is mindlessly adhered to or that minimizes
individuality,” which sounds about right for Reinsdorf et al. Oh, and Wikipedia has a great photo of
prisoners marching in lockstep.
The
future’s never looked brighter on the South Side, not since 1919 at least.
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