Be Careful What You Wish For
The windup...White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen announces that he will not make the trip to the White House with the rest of his team.
The pitch...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley: "I don't know who you are. Maybe you think you're too important. I think Ozzie is on vacation or something. I mean, that is up to him. But you don't realize how precious that is, and very few Americans have ever been in the White House. To me, that is a privilege for anyone to be."
At bat...White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf: "The mayor said he was disappointed with Ozzie, and that's a legitimate opinion. But this is not that big a deal."
Oooooohhhh...swing and a miss!
OK, the Katzenjammer Kid is right when he says that it's not a big deal. But he whiffs when he complains that people are paying too much attention to this deal.
Reinsdorf and his staff want Chicago to be a White Sox Town. Winning the World Series has helped in that regard.
But part and parcel of being the number one team in town is having the bone-headed Chicago media focus on the stupidest...errr...stuff going on around your team. It's been going on for years on the other side of town -- recent examples include Sosa's boombox, Alou's bathroom habits, and Baker's theories on which players play best in warm weather and why.
For a more recent example, check out this snarky piece by hopelessly biased Dave Van Dyck about the new bleachers going up at Wrigley Field. Van Dyck seems amazed that Cubs haven't commissioned a wind tunnel study to determine what effect the additional seating will have on the yard. After all, the White Sox AND the Red Sox did wind tunnel studies, so it must be a smart thing to do!
This is an utterly pointless topic -- just as pointless as whether or not Ozzie goes to visit W. But that's SOP for the Chicago media's coverage of its favorite team. Reinsdorf might believe that becoming Chicago's number one team will be all sweetness and light. But he should know by now that every silver lining has a dark cloud...
The pitch...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley: "I don't know who you are. Maybe you think you're too important. I think Ozzie is on vacation or something. I mean, that is up to him. But you don't realize how precious that is, and very few Americans have ever been in the White House. To me, that is a privilege for anyone to be."
At bat...White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf: "The mayor said he was disappointed with Ozzie, and that's a legitimate opinion. But this is not that big a deal."
Oooooohhhh...swing and a miss!
OK, the Katzenjammer Kid is right when he says that it's not a big deal. But he whiffs when he complains that people are paying too much attention to this deal.
Reinsdorf and his staff want Chicago to be a White Sox Town. Winning the World Series has helped in that regard.
But part and parcel of being the number one team in town is having the bone-headed Chicago media focus on the stupidest...errr...stuff going on around your team. It's been going on for years on the other side of town -- recent examples include Sosa's boombox, Alou's bathroom habits, and Baker's theories on which players play best in warm weather and why.
For a more recent example, check out this snarky piece by hopelessly biased Dave Van Dyck about the new bleachers going up at Wrigley Field. Van Dyck seems amazed that Cubs haven't commissioned a wind tunnel study to determine what effect the additional seating will have on the yard. After all, the White Sox AND the Red Sox did wind tunnel studies, so it must be a smart thing to do!
This is an utterly pointless topic -- just as pointless as whether or not Ozzie goes to visit W. But that's SOP for the Chicago media's coverage of its favorite team. Reinsdorf might believe that becoming Chicago's number one team will be all sweetness and light. But he should know by now that every silver lining has a dark cloud...
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