Coverage

The Cubs beat the Dodgers 8-4 last night.  Now one win away from the World Series, the team is generating coverage just this side of V-E Day.  Woe to any team that gets in the North Siders’ way.

Which, in the case of the Bears, is probably a good thing.  The Mopes of the Midway also played last night, falling to the Packers 26-10 and moving their record to 1-7.  The papers scaled back on their coverage to focus on the Cubs; ditto local TV.  Once the no-shows become too obvious to ignore at Soldier Field, the McCaskeys will be in high dither.  Whatever will they do?  Why, fire the old regime and put in a new one just like the one before, of course; that’s their track record.  But how it must gall the dynastic underachievers to have to share the stage with Theo Epstein and company.

Meanwhile, the LA Sparks of the WNBA defeated the Minnesota Lynx 77-76 last night to become WNBA champs.  The Tribune gave the game two paragraphs, the Sun-Times zero.  Women’s basketball in this town may as well be the Chicago White Sox.