Clobberin' with Lies
Dave van Dyck was responsible for writing up Saturday night's White Sox game story.
(Those of you who just cringed, bonus points for appreciating Tricky Van Dyck's special brand of "writing.")
With the White Sox's offense back in full force and scoring outrageous amounts of runs, you'd think Tricky V.D. would shoot right out of the gate with a delicious lede. Perhaps he'd mention Joe Crede's four home runs in the past two games, an accomplishment not attained by a White Sox player in nine seasons. How about 64 hits in five games so far in the homestand? Hey, he couldn't even be blamed for leading with news of the rarest of baseball accomplishments, a Paul Konerko triple.
No, the lede for the story detailing the White Sox's trampling of Minnesota, their fiercest rival and closest Central Division trailer, by a lopsided, 11-2 margin avoids any such pertinence:
They may have the worst winning percentage of any team leading a division, but the White Sox have a bigger lead than the best team, the Cubs.
Now, let's try to ignore how horrible Tricky Van Dyck's writing is and how lazy and convoluted a lede this is. As is to be expected from a writer from a newspaper that prides itself more on torpedoing its crosstown rival than reporting facts, Tricky Van Dyck's lede is simply wrong.
The division leader with the worst record is not the red-hot White Sox but the Arizona Diamondbacks, whose 34-28 record trails the White Sox by a full 1.5 games. Moreover, the north side bumblers are no longer the "best" team in baseball as the Trib's Hall of Fame-nominated hatchet man implies--they're now tied with the L.A. Angels at 39-24.
Apparently the Tribune sports editors "missed" the falsities when they "fact-checked" Homer Dave's story.
— Submitted by Cubune Watcher Edward B., with an assist from Brett Ballantini
(Those of you who just cringed, bonus points for appreciating Tricky Van Dyck's special brand of "writing.")
With the White Sox's offense back in full force and scoring outrageous amounts of runs, you'd think Tricky V.D. would shoot right out of the gate with a delicious lede. Perhaps he'd mention Joe Crede's four home runs in the past two games, an accomplishment not attained by a White Sox player in nine seasons. How about 64 hits in five games so far in the homestand? Hey, he couldn't even be blamed for leading with news of the rarest of baseball accomplishments, a Paul Konerko triple.
No, the lede for the story detailing the White Sox's trampling of Minnesota, their fiercest rival and closest Central Division trailer, by a lopsided, 11-2 margin avoids any such pertinence:
They may have the worst winning percentage of any team leading a division, but the White Sox have a bigger lead than the best team, the Cubs.
Now, let's try to ignore how horrible Tricky Van Dyck's writing is and how lazy and convoluted a lede this is. As is to be expected from a writer from a newspaper that prides itself more on torpedoing its crosstown rival than reporting facts, Tricky Van Dyck's lede is simply wrong.
The division leader with the worst record is not the red-hot White Sox but the Arizona Diamondbacks, whose 34-28 record trails the White Sox by a full 1.5 games. Moreover, the north side bumblers are no longer the "best" team in baseball as the Trib's Hall of Fame-nominated hatchet man implies--they're now tied with the L.A. Angels at 39-24.
Apparently the Tribune sports editors "missed" the falsities when they "fact-checked" Homer Dave's story.
— Submitted by Cubune Watcher Edward B., with an assist from Brett Ballantini
Labels: Chicago Tribune, Dave Van Dyck, Hall of Fame-Nominated Hatchet Man, Homer Dave, north side bumblers, Tricky Van Dyck
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