More Mendick and Engel, less Graham

The White Sox got themselves a nice bounce-back win last night, beating the Rays 3-0 with starter Dallas Keuchel tossing seven shutout innings. Danny Mendick had a hit an RBI and Adam did, too, his coming on a monster homerun, his third in just twenty at-bats, to left field. The rubber match takes place this afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Whatever. Because this is Chicago, the Sox had to share space with the Bears, still three months away from their home opener. For perspective, flip the teams. What kind of coverage do the Sox get in January? Absent a trade or fan convention, none. Ditto the Cubs. Now, consider the Bears. I’m supposed to care who attended and didn’t attend mandatory minicamp; who’s the starting quarterback; and the death-defying antics of tight-end Jimmy Graham. That’s the one that really steams me. By his own admission, Graham was doing “about 90 miles per hour” down a Florida highway early one morning in March, when his truck went airborne, rolled over four times and skidded along the ground on its roof before coming to a stop. The way local and national media have it, Super-Graham emerged unscathed. Wow. Only none of the three stories I read—two local, one national—thought to ask this question: Did Graham get ticketed? The legal speed limit in Florida is 70 mph, so Graham was going close to, or over, 20 mph more. Next question—if the police decided not to ticket him, why not? I won’t hold my breath for answers.