Another Corpse at Wrigley

Another dead body has turned up in the shadow of the Tribune-owned stadium that the Tribune has described as a "sacred garden." According to today's Sun-Times:

A 53-year-old man holding a hypodermic needle and with a belt tightened around his arm was found dead early Thursday in a portable toilet across the street from Wrigley Field.

We've written often about the way Tribune media promote Wrigley as a tourist destination while portraying U.S. Cellular as a scary place surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and curiously stereotypical racial minorities. Yet in all the years we've been watching, baseball fans have been murdered only after attending Cubs games, and the "smell of marijuana" that one Tribune reporter claims to have detected near The Cell last October seems rather tame compared to the specter of an apparent heroin overdose in a Wrigleyville Honey Hut.

We doubt, however, that the Tribune will divert from the tried and true storylines that earn it the most money.