Tribune Overlooks Cubs Fans Trashing Shrine

When they're not writing fiction to incite fan unrest on the South Side, the Tribune is covering it up on the North Side. Only by reading the St. Louis Post-Dispatch would you discover that Cubs fans have already starting throwing trash on the outfield of the "sacred garden" where their $300 million last-place team plays. Tribune reporter Dave van Dyck was covering the April 21 Cubs-Cardinals game when Cubs fans pelted the outfield with rubbish after Ronny Cedeno was tagged out after oversliding second base. Maybe van Dyck should have his eyes checked, because he didn't notice the commotion. Or, at least, he didn't write about it.

As Cubune Watcher Bill Melvin points out, "If this happened at the Cell I'm sure every news channel would have shown it and every newspaper would have written about it. Of course, it happened at The Shrine so locally nothing gets written and nothing gets said. ESPN showed it the next day with the local feed from the St. Louis station. This double standard has to be exposed."