Tribune: True to Form, if Nothing Else
We had to wait two years, but the Tribune delivered, true to form. On the first day of the playoffs in Chicago in 2005 the Tribune ran a front page story about crime, pot-smoking, and curiously stereotypical African Americans in the neighborhood of U.S. Cellular Field. On the first day of the playoffs in 2007, can we count on the them to write about the rapists, racists, and rummies of Wrigleyville?
Brett Ballantini reports:
So, to herald the beginning of NL playoffs' brief stay in Chicago, Paul Sullivan earns his juicy paycheck with the fluffiest fluffy fluff fluff feature on, surprise, Cubbies who live in Wrigleyville, wherein it is written that Ryan Dempster plays "Frogger" with traffic by RUNNING FROM WRIGLEY TO THE LAKE BEFORE GAMES. No matter how delicious the notion that Dempster puts himself in harm's way sounds to the blue-pajamas faithful, that cannot be smiled upon by Cubby management given that there's a large, unencumbered patch of grass to jog on to his heart's content sitting in the middle of his workplace, Wrigley Field. What a doorknob.
Oh, and Sully says that Dempster used to ride his bike "to work," but it got stolen. Is Dempster angry? Distrustful of the raucous neighborhood? Lucky he didn't get killed after a blown save by one of the "faithful?" Dumb as a box of rocks for being a major leaguer who isn't bright enough to secure his bike somewhere other than the base of a streetlamp?
Nah, Dempster just walks to the park now, reports Sully with misty-eyed, Joe-Jackson- emerging-from-a-cornfield admiration.
Scott Eyre, a Cubbie who isn't caught up in the utter romance of the urinal trough on the North Side, is relegated to two quotes at the end before the story mysteriously truncates (more Cubbies who didn't espouse the party line, perhaps?), one portraying him as a Twinkie-gobbling porko compared to the deft and nimble Dempster.
What... did you expect a smear piece on pot smokers in the neighborhood or something?
Brett Ballantini reports:
So, to herald the beginning of NL playoffs' brief stay in Chicago, Paul Sullivan earns his juicy paycheck with the fluffiest fluffy fluff fluff feature on, surprise, Cubbies who live in Wrigleyville, wherein it is written that Ryan Dempster plays "Frogger" with traffic by RUNNING FROM WRIGLEY TO THE LAKE BEFORE GAMES. No matter how delicious the notion that Dempster puts himself in harm's way sounds to the blue-pajamas faithful, that cannot be smiled upon by Cubby management given that there's a large, unencumbered patch of grass to jog on to his heart's content sitting in the middle of his workplace, Wrigley Field. What a doorknob.
Oh, and Sully says that Dempster used to ride his bike "to work," but it got stolen. Is Dempster angry? Distrustful of the raucous neighborhood? Lucky he didn't get killed after a blown save by one of the "faithful?" Dumb as a box of rocks for being a major leaguer who isn't bright enough to secure his bike somewhere other than the base of a streetlamp?
Nah, Dempster just walks to the park now, reports Sully with misty-eyed, Joe-Jackson- emerging-from-a-cornfield admiration.
Scott Eyre, a Cubbie who isn't caught up in the utter romance of the urinal trough on the North Side, is relegated to two quotes at the end before the story mysteriously truncates (more Cubbies who didn't espouse the party line, perhaps?), one portraying him as a Twinkie-gobbling porko compared to the deft and nimble Dempster.
What... did you expect a smear piece on pot smokers in the neighborhood or something?
Labels: 2005 vs 2007, Chicago Tribune
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