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Chicago is a Cubs’ town, just as it has also been a White Sox town.  Things change, things go in cycles.

 

But it’s been North-Side first for a long time now, dating to the early 1980s, when Harry Caray started doing Cubs’ games.  Caray gets too much credit for changing the dynamic; he was more an effect than a cause.  But either way, Sox fans are right to see themselves as the Israelites 2.0, wandering in the desert for a good—or bad—forty years.

 

Well, we’re back, sort of.  As a team, the Sox are young with plenty of potential that they flash from time to time; just ask the Cubs, who lost two out of three to their crosstown nemeses.  If only ESPN could be bothered to notice.  You’d think that coming in from out of the sports’ desert would make a good story, but, No, that would be too much of a bother.

 

ESPN did the Sox-Cubs’ game on Friday, and it was a good thing the announcers weren’t in town; my daughter might have hunted them down to exact her revenge.  The broadcast team kept referring to someone named Nick Giolito, a player Sox fans and players know better as Lucas Giolito.  After Eloy Jimenez hit a mammoth homerun, he was identified as one of those talented Cuban hitters on the team.  Only Eloy hails from the Dominican Republic.

 

Then, during Sunday’s game, an ESPN graphic referred to Sox second baseman Danny Medwick; those of us in the know call him Danny Mendick.  Maybe our Mendick reminded someone at ESPN of HOFer Ducky Medwick.

 

Yeah, I bet that’s what happened.