Winners Win Even When They Tie

The Tribune did its best to stir up a controversy about that 4-4 tie between the Sox and Cubs in Spring training Monday. Dusty wanted to keep playing, the Trib trumpeted, but Ozzie wanted to call it quits at 9 innings. Sadly for the Cubune, the readers weren't biting. 57 percent in the Tribune poll on the topic sided with the manager of the World Series champion Chicago White Sox.

Those terribly Soxish poll results leaked out all across the Empire. They were repeated on Tribune-owned Chicagosports.com, Tribune-owned WGN, and Tribune-owned Comcast Sportsnet.