Today's Lesson: Sincerity
As much as there is to applaud over Rick Morrissey turning his Friday column about Steve Bartman being entitled to "sincere apologies" for all the abuse he has suffered in the past four-plus years into a detailed diatribe against the Sun-Times' little engine that could, Jay Mariotti, one thing seems awfully disingenuous about Moose's attack.
Forget the juxtaposition of mercy for Bartman/gallows for Mariotti. No, it's simply the irony of chiding the Blue Jay for mentioning Bartman in a column every two and a half weeks in a column about...Steve Bartman.
The column, of course, tugged at the heartstrings on the level of Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, who routinely wins national column-writing awards despite offering all the poetry and insight of an old Comiskey Park brick.
However it serves you on a slow news day, eh, Rick?
--Brett Ballantini
Forget the juxtaposition of mercy for Bartman/gallows for Mariotti. No, it's simply the irony of chiding the Blue Jay for mentioning Bartman in a column every two and a half weeks in a column about...Steve Bartman.
The column, of course, tugged at the heartstrings on the level of Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, who routinely wins national column-writing awards despite offering all the poetry and insight of an old Comiskey Park brick.
However it serves you on a slow news day, eh, Rick?
--Brett Ballantini
Labels: Bill Plaschke, brick poetry, Jay Mariotti, Rick Morrissey, sincere apologies, Steve Bartman
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