I am a White Sox fan desperate to
see the glass half full, which is hard to do when manager Rick Renteria tells
the Sun-Times, as he did today, “Our goal or our view of where we’re at as an
organization and as a club continues to be looking forward.” Tell me, Rick, how many organizations look
backwards?
So, when an honest-to-goodness bit
of good news happens, like yesterday’s 5-1 win over the Blue Jays with Lucas
Giolito picking up the victory, I want to read all about it. Giolito is now 4-1 on the season and looks to
have figured things out on the mound.
Thank you, Sun-Times, for sending a beat reporter all the way to Toronto
to follow the Sox. I trust she crossed
back over the border safely.
As for the World’s Greatest
Newspaper, aka the Tribune, beat coverage of the Sox stops at 35th
and Shields; any game on the road and it’s all AP coverage. Yesterday, at least the wire story was longer
than the piece on the suburban high school sophomore quarterback who committed
to Michigan. (Note: My daughter used to
feast on this school’s pitching.) Today,
AP coverage of Giolito looked to be a little shorter than the story on Frank
Vogel. Who’s he? New head coach of the Lakers. Where do the Lakers play? Los Angeles.
And why would anyone in Chicago care who the Lakers pick as their coach?
My guess is the Trib got the story
free or on the cheap. Until recently, they
and the L.A. Times were owned by the same entity. Other than that, I haven’t a clue.
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