More Blatant Anti-White Sox Bias from the Chicago Tribune

One last hometown story to wrap up this Sunday. I'm a half a day late on it, but it's still worth mentioning.

This morning's sports section of the Chicago Tribune--you know, that huge Chicago newspaper owned by Tribune Company, the same media conglomerate that owns the Chicago Cubs--featured a huge front page story on Frank Thomas and his rejuvinated offensive production in Oakland this season.

And by huge front page story, I mean huge front page story. Like, one skinny left-hand column on the Bearsss, one top-fold lead on the Sox' loss Saturday night, and then a monstrous photo of Frank Thomas in the A's dugout with the headline "Big Comeback." And did I mention it was right below the lead for the Sox' loss?

The article itself was heavy on Thomas vs. Jim Thome comparisons--as in, "Look how much more the Sox are paying for the same production!"--as well as allusions to Thomas's leadership qualities, qualities which supposedly did not exist in his White Sox days.

The main reason I bring up this piece, however, is to brag for myself. Remember in March when I gushed about the A's signing Thomas for 500 G's plus incentives (about $2 mill in all)? Remember when I said he'd be Comeback Player of the Year, make Billy Beane look awesome yet again, and perhaps even lead the A's to a World Series title? Remember when I said all that? Man, I LOVE being right! Whoo! Yeah!!--

(I also picked the Cubs to win 85 games and Rich Harden to win the AL Cy Young.)

--Oh baby! Fuck yeah! God, am I BRILLIANT! Ow!!...