A Tempest in a Tribune
Today Tribune beat-Sox reporter Mark Gonzales continues to babble like a lunatic about Ken Williams taking criticism for his off-season changes to the pitching staff. Gonzales really seems to want some kind of pitching controversy to be real, even writing that Williams would step into a "lion's den" at Sox Fest, but in fact there has been only modest criticism outside of Mark Gonzales' own rich fantasy life. Sure, some people don't like Kenny's moves, but here's what Sports Illustrated has to say about the 2007 Sox and their pitching staff:
Time for a new beat-Sox reporter, maybe, Tribune? Lately the Tribune's baseball beat reporters have been embarrassingly incompetent in very public ways: manufacturing a controversy about Mark Buerhle, then using the same interpretive technique to make up a controversy about Carlos Zambrano. The Sun-Times, undoubtedly stung by its own blind complicity in the former case, finally stepped out of the Tribune's shadow and called the latter case "bogus reporting." No duh. It's been going on for years. And the Zambrano story was substantially less egregious than the false reporting on Buehrle.
The pieces are in place to win, so look for health and hunger to determine if the Sox retake the Central.... This is a stable group of starters, but everyone has something to prove, especially if they want to stick around.Maybe to Gonzales that sounds highly critical. Anyway, today Gonzales claims that all Sox pitchers are "aware of the criticism." The guy's libidinal ache for fabricated controversy even surfaces in his verbs. What's weird about these sentences:
Haeger, who will be evaluated as a starter but can relieve, admitted the McCarthy trade was a surprise...Are those really admissions? Were Haeger and Williams tied to a chair under a hot bulb being beaten by a rubber hose when Haeger admitted he was surprised by a trade and Williams admitted that the air is drier in Tucson?
Williams admitted last month that the thin Arizona air makes it difficult to evaluate Haeger because his knuckleball doesn't move as well as it does in higher humidity.
Time for a new beat-Sox reporter, maybe, Tribune? Lately the Tribune's baseball beat reporters have been embarrassingly incompetent in very public ways: manufacturing a controversy about Mark Buerhle, then using the same interpretive technique to make up a controversy about Carlos Zambrano. The Sun-Times, undoubtedly stung by its own blind complicity in the former case, finally stepped out of the Tribune's shadow and called the latter case "bogus reporting." No duh. It's been going on for years. And the Zambrano story was substantially less egregious than the false reporting on Buehrle.
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