The Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani getting things started on the North Side. This at-bat will not go well for the Cubs.
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Ex-newspaper guy in Chicago, L.A., Madison and Waukegan, most recently the Chicago Tribune. (Not the Phil Rosenthal known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Somebody Feed Phil.")
If only there were a mechanism to get those who make a lot of money to give back some of that money for the public good.
if you ever wonder how open secrets about terrible behavior fester in Hollywood and nothing is done, there’s likely no one more qualified than the great @moryan.bsky.social to break it down. Here she is on Jared Leto and Hollywood’s post #MeToo playbook [gift link]:
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets (Gift Article)
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
nytimes.com
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Len Kasper is so much better at calling White Sox games than John Schriffen, it’s remarkable (and more than a little insulting) we pay for Schriffen while Kasper is free. And the more Dan Plesac tries to mesh with Schriffen, the worse he gets.
This was a prospect trade situation, not a highest $$$$ situation. Other teams like the brewers could have beaten the dodgers’ offer and gone all in on trying to win this year with Miz and Skubal but chose not to.
Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d agoI am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.
Is the salary cap also going to make the Dodgers have a bad farm system?
It’s August 1. Fill-in TV analyst Dan Plesac has already used up the month’s allotment of references to “the dog days of August” within the first hour of today’s White Sox telecast.
John Schriffen and Dan Plesac spend more time talking about hotels, transportation and food than any baseball broadcast team in MLB.
How does John Schriffen know what “playoff atmosphere” at Rate Field feels like?
Hard to imagine a nicer summer day on the South Side, where the first-place White Sox close out a rough home stand with a matinee against the Yankees. Game time is in an hour.
The White Sox just replayed the back-to-back home runs that tied the game in the 8th. Thankfully, the audio was Len Kasper’s radio call.
These AI ads are garbage & a disgrace. Chicago’s lakefront doesn’t look like this, and whoever approved this trash needs to 1) hire REAL artists to create & 2) simply do better at their job. This is so embarrassing to see, especially at a mall in the heart of Chicago’s Mag Mile.
Apparently it doesn’t have to be Dog Night to bring a dog to the White Sox game.
Gorgeous night on the South Side. The White Sox, 1-4 so far in this home stand, hope to pull it together in the first of the final two games against the Yankees. It’s apparently some wizard’s night, and frankly the Sox will take any magic they can get.
Beautiful night on the South Side. Healthy crowd still streaming in as the White Sox and Yankees go at it in the second of a four-game set.
It’s a pleasant night on the South Side despite a couple of rough storms earlier as the White Sox and Yankees open a four-game series.
Google Maps now shows Adams Street in the Loop only as “U.S. Route 66” which is completely useless because it doesn’t match any building addresses or street signs.
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
Who do these reporters think they are? The White House press corps? I'm beginning to not recognize my old profession. God help us.
ProFootballTalk@profootballtalk.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Kyle Shanahan car accident happened on July 14. It was a matter of public record. The 49ers wanted to keep it quiet until training camp opened on July 25. And, instead of reporting publicly-available facts, the reporters who knew about it complied.
White Sox hoping to avoid a series sweep vs. the Astros on the South Side today. With a Murakami bobblehead giveaway for 15,000 and Family Sunday, they’re expecting a full house.
I didn't know that Col. Sanders hated what Kentucky Fried Chicken did to his food after he sold it, even though he stayed on as mascot -- apparently without having signed a non-disparagement clause www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/d...
