Like We Been Sayin

Since so many of the mainstream Chicago media are deeply invested in the deceitful practices of marketing their investments, and the rest are supplicant to the Empire, you have to get out of The Chi to find reliable intelligence. Check out this on-the-money column by Michael Hunt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Here's a taste:

In somehow portraying themselves as the ultimate underdog and the lovable losers, the Cubs have pulled off maybe the biggest scam in the history of professional sports. It's like Big Oil being successfully sold as baby seal lovers. No one would buy that, yet legions of Cubs fans didn't seem to mind when the $1 billion franchise scalped its own tickets back to them.

Big City Cubs Pull Off Ruse of Underdog