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Here’s why sports’ talk radio and The
Athletic exist: the web pages for every pro team in America. Take the White Sox, please.
Every headline combines the bland
with the obvious. Players and the team
are forever bouncing back or getting back on track or looking to [fill in the
blank]. And then we have the “ask the
beat reporter” feature, which ought to include the disclaimer “100-percent
approved by the front office.”
I just read a question about the
Sox starting pitching woes, and Mr. Beat Reporter brought up the name of Dylan
Cease, only to note the front office “won’t rush a prospect because of what’s
happening” with the parent club. Well,
that’s one side. Isn’t there another?
But offering it would risk rocking
the boat, and MLB won’t allow that.
Instead, they allow a story that argues the All-Star bona fides of Chris
Davis, who started the season 0 for 38 and is currently batting .188 with five
homeruns and seventeen RBIs. In
comparison, Jose Abreu is hitting .268 with 10 homers and 36 RBIs. But the All-Star Game doesn’t count for
anything anymore, so this joke of a story runs.
Trust me, if home-field advantage
still depended on the outcome of the All-Star Game, crap like that never would
have seen the light of day.
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