I wasn't happy with the arrangement that was cut. The Sun-Times is on the street 12 hours before we're on the air. Among the cognoscenti, it looks like we're re-covering their story. Flannery says his station intended to follow up with a more extensive story Sunday night. But by then the mayor was flat on his back in a hospital bed, so Channel Two held off.
Hope still springs eternal in major league baseball, thanks to the ingenuity of the men who run it.
So many teams now make the playoffs that even a have-not team can wind up there by accident. As for the rich teams in major media markets, here's where the system really shines. If baseball were ruled by parity, a team could expect to wind up world champs once every 30 years. Cubs and White Sox fans don't care if their favorites haven't won a World Series in about a century, because what's past is past. They hope each spring will finally launch the era of ruthless, crushing dominance.