Sunday's Tribune

[Al Lopez Ghost (old)]

On the Score just now, a caller asked a Tribune staffer - David Haugh, I believe - when the Sox were going to get their due from the Trib. He said Sunday's Tribune is virtually a Soxfest. On the front page of the paper - not the Sports Section - John Kass, who is both a Sox season ticket holder and probably the paper's primary news columnist has a story. There is a two page story about Garland and his parents, and Haugh said the Sox coverage goes on and on.

 

So now we know what it took - just play .750 ball into the middle of May, and the Trib will notice us.

[SleepyWhiteSox]

On the Score just now, a caller asked a Tribune staffer - David Haugh, I believe - when the Sox were going to get their due from the Trib. He said Sunday's Tribune is virtually a Soxfest. On the front page of the paper - not the Sports Section - John Kass, who is both a Sox season ticket holder and probably the paper's primary news columnist has a story. There is a two page story about Garland and his parents, and Haugh said the Sox coverage goes on and on.

 

So now we know what it took - just play .750 ball into the middle of May, and the Trib will notice us.

 

The sad part is that the cubune gives the Sox better coverage than does that other paper...

[White Sox]

The suntimes has been GREAT all season with the sox. I get it every day. I don't remember the last time ive looked at the back cover and NOT seen the sox full page on it.

The only bad part about the suntimes is Mariotti, who pretends like the sox don't exsist when things start going well for them.

[Guest JimH]

I find the Daily Herald to be very fair in terms of coverage, and possibly the best sports section in the city.

[LosMediasBlancas]

If you win, they will come.

Be careful what you ask for though, you just might get it.

When the local and national press begin to scrutinize Ozzie's moves and overblow players' slumps and smother the team in general, we'll see if it affects them.

Edited May 14, 2005 by LosMediasBlancas

[Al Lopez Ghost (old)]

I agree about the Herald, both in their day to day coverage and their feature columnists.

[White Sox]

When the local and national press begin to scrutinize Ozzie's moves and overblow players' slumps and smother the team in general, we'll see if it affects them.

 

If they win, none of that matters. The attention will stay on winning. All his moves will be right, and all the slumps won't appear as bad as they really are.

[KevHead0881]

I agree about the Herald, both in their day to day coverage and their feature columnists.

 

Rozner - Great, Imrem - Bad

[WHarris1]

Rozner - Great, Imrem - Bad

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Inrem irritates the hell outta me.

The entire season he ripped the Illini, I was juse like umm.

[Guest JimH]

  KevHead0881 said:

Rozner - Great, Imrem - Bad

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Disagree on Rozner, he carries personal agendas and only tells part of the story, particularly as it relates to the Blackhawks and their various issues. It's ok to rip, but tell the truth ... and Rozner doesn't always do that.

 

Tim Sassone is the best reporter they have at the Daily Herald, he is now doing some baseball coverage seeing hockey is in mothballs. He is fair, balanced, and not afraid to print a tough story. Not a particularly nice and/or friendly guy but if you read Sassone you're getting the straight story.

[KevHead0881]

I work at the Herald and personally like them both. But as far as writing ability goes, I think Rozner is very talented and I usually agree with him. The only thing that bothers me about him is that he seems to write about the same topics over and over again. I'd say that he does roughly 30 articles on Ron Santo, 20 on the Arlington Million, 15 on Cubs PR guy McDonough, and 10 on the Ben Christionson story a year. Plus he's a Cub fan. But I tend to enjoy his writing.

 

Imrem on the other hand, offers little insight on anything. I personally believe that just about any one of you can write a better column than him. They are just totally bland.

 

Plus, he doesn't wash his hands after he uses the mens room.

Edited May 14, 2005 by KevHead0881

[Guest JimH]

  KevHead0881 said:

I work at the Herald and personally like them both.  But as far as writing ability goes, I think Rozner is very talented and I usually agree with him.  The only thing that bothers me about him is that he seems to write about the same topics over and over again.  I'd say that he does roughly 30 articles on Ron Santo, 20 on the Arlington Million, 15 on Cubs PR guy McDonough, and 10 on the Ben Christionson story a year.  Plus he's a Cub fan.  But I tend to enjoy his writing.

 

Imrem on the other hand, offers little insight on anything.  I personally believe that just about any one of you can write a better column than him.  They are just totally bland.

 

Plus, he doesn't wash his hands after he uses the mens room. 

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That is great insight ... but I could have done without the Imren lack of hand washing tidbit

 

I agree 100% that Rozner is the better writer of the two. I take everything Rozner writes with a grain of salt because I've caught him in a couple of blatant lies, but he is an excellent writer and entertaining as well. He is a huge Cub fan but I will say this, he's fair toward the White Sox ... when he writes about them. You are right, he goes overboard on the Ron Santo/John McDonough stuff but oh well.

[nitetrain8601]

The suntimes has been GREAT all season with the sox.  I get it every day.  I don't remember the last time ive looked at the back cover and NOT seen the sox full page on it.   

The only bad part about the suntimes is Mariotti, who pretends like the sox don't exsist when things start going well for them.

 

Speaking of which, did you see when Mariotti got pissed at Tony Reali yesterday for saying, "He Gone" when talking about the Sox. Mariotti got pissed and said, "here's a little advice and stop using that stupid phrase". Then Mariotti lost that round and Reali said, "Since you don't like 'He Gone!', how about 'You Gone!'

[Wise Master Buehrle]

The Soxune today is a very fun read. Very original articles and an EXCELLENT story on Garland. The story on Garland is not the kind of stuff we all know, but more into his heroes in life.

 

I really recommend going out and picking up a copy of the Trib.

[Gene Honda Civic]

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines -- Garland Story

 

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines -- Mark Gonzalez on Garland

[Jabroni]

Yep, the Sunday Tribune is basically devoted to Jon Garland. He is on 3 different pages and he is the main story on 2 of the pages.

[YASNY]

Here's the best column-feature-story, whatever, of them all, as far as I'm concerned.

 

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines

 

Rick Morrisey's column is also very good.

[Gene Honda Civic]

Here's the best column-feature-story, whatever, of them all, as far as I'm concerned. 

 

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines

 

Rick Morrisey's column is also very good.

Ah this was pretty shoddy...

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The Sox have not outdrawn the Cubs in home attendance since 1992. TV ratings tell a similar story: The Cubs-Mets game Wednesday night on WGN-Ch. 9 attracted a 5.7 rating and a 15 share, while a Sox-Devil Rays game on Comcast SportsNet managed a meager 1 rating and a 3 share.

 

Why not check and see what it was on Thursday when the Sox were on GN, and the cubs the lowly comcast? Cuz it wouldn't have made his point that's why.

 

I now realize there wasn't a cubs game yesterday. D'OH. the point still stands.

Edited May 15, 2005 by Gene Honda Civic

[YASNY]

Ah this was pretty shoddy...

Why not check and see what it was on Thursday when the Sox were on GN, and the cubs the lowly comcast?  Cuz it wouldn't have made his point that's why. 

 

I now realize there wasn't a cubs game yesterday. D'OH. the point still stands.

 

All in all, it was a good and fairly written article. You're nitpicking.

[witesoxfan]

Ah this was pretty shoddy...

Why not check and see what it was on Thursday when the Sox were on GN, and the cubs the lowly comcast?  Cuz it wouldn't have made his point that's why. 

 

I now realize there wasn't a cubs game yesterday. D'OH. the point still stands.

 

Just curious, because I honestly do not know...

 

Is this compensating for the fact that WGN is a national TV station, while Comcast is a regional sports station?

[Gene Honda Civic]

All in all, it was a good and fairly written article.  You're nitpicking.

ESPN gets less than a 1 share with some of it's primetime programming... Why? Because it's on freakin' cable.

 

ESPN recently discovered they can air something called "Bowling Night" and get the same ratings, or better, than the NHL games that were supposed to be airing, for much cheaper to boot. I don't know why I went on the ESPN jaunt, but I just read that in an article, and well I thought I should write it here. NHL= in big trouble.

 

Comparing a subscription service such as cable TV to a freely available service is almost universally going to yeild the same results. Add to that the difference between the Mets and the Devil Rays and you've got yourself a stacked freakin' deck.

[YASNY]

ESPN gets less than a 1 share with some of it's primetime programming... Why? Because it's on freakin' cable. 

 

ESPN recently discovered they can air something called "Bowling Night" and get the same ratings, or better, than the NHL games that were supposed to be airing, for much cheaper to boot. I don't know why I went on the ESPN jaunt, but I just read that in an article, and well I thought I should write it here. NHL= in big trouble.

 

Comparing a subscription service such as cable TV to a freely available service is almost universally going to yeild the same results.  Add to that the difference between the Mets and the Devil Rays and you've got yourself a stacked freakin' deck.

 

Still, you picked out a perceived negative remark out of a generally well written article. That, my friend, is nitpicking.