Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 12, 2005
Slammin' Sammy

I find it interesting that running Sammy Sosa out of town on a rail wasn't enough for Chicago. The Tribune is still writing negative stories just in case the Cubs fans didn't know what an awful person Sammy had become. In the latest, they travel to Sosa's home island to try to find people that might have a negative view of the home town slugger.

Folks, you've made your point. Sammy has nothing to do with the Cubs anymore. You traded him for nothing, and no amount of negative publicity is going to change that or make the Cubs any better. Cubs fans aren't going to be loyal because the scourge of Sosa has been removed. They'll be loyal because you win. And if they see Sosa having a great year in Baltimore and the Cubs struggling to stay above .500, they're going to start wondering if the wrong person was run out of town.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:04 PM | News Media | TrackBack (1)
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Just to be clear, the article was a Baltimore Sun article picked up by the Chicago Tribune (though they're both owned by the Tribune Co., if I recall correctly).

Posted by: Jason at February 12, 2005 11:13 PM

Kinda like Shaugnessey running negative articles about Nomar a month after he was gone. Its the kind of thing that sells.

Posted by: James Mason at February 13, 2005 12:33 AM

Not the best of welcomes from the Baltimore Sun... compare that to the New York Times' long, flattering profile of Pedro Martinez in the Dominican upon Pedro's arrival in Queens.

Posted by: Daryl at February 13, 2005 08:49 AM

I have no problem with people writing articles in cases
like these. Sosa's removal from the team is quite recent.

Posted by: susan mullen at February 13, 2005 10:16 PM
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