So I’m skimming through the sports headlines on the Chicago Sun-Times website last night, trying to catch up on a little spring training news.  The first thing I see when I get to the sports page of the site?  The top headline which reads:

White Sox Jake Peavy; ‘I Don’t Like The Cubs’

Wow, that really gets me upset.  Peavy doesn’t like the Cubs?  I mean that seems pretty inconsistent with everything we heard last season.  What a jackass this guy is, right?  Well before you Cubs fans turn on him (and Sox fans choose to worship him for this nonsense), take a second look.  Here is Peavy’s ACTUAL quote from the article:

”I hate every team we play, that’s all there is to it,” Peavy said. ”From 2 o’clock until 10 or 11 o’clock at night, I don’t want to be friends with the other side. You’re not going to see me have relationships with anybody. Off the field, that’s fine. I’m a firm believer in taking care of that off the field or in the tunnel.

”No, I don’t like the Cubs. I don’t like the Minnesota Twins. Great guys, but I don’t like anybody we’re going to play. I’m a member of the White Sox, and I want to go to battle with the 25 guys we have in here. I don’t care about being friends with anybody else. … Inside the lines, it’s a dog-eat-dog world. I want to win all six games against the Cubs [this season], and it’s as easy as that.”

Gee, that headline was awfully misleading, don’t you think?  In fact you could probably get that quote from most baseball players about every other team but their own.  If my team’s players didn’t have that attitude I would be upset.  Must have been a slow news day.

Baseball in Chicago is back.  Get ready to be mislead and riled up for no reason all summer by “newsmen” looking for a story.

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Tags: Chicago Beat Writers, Jake Peavy, Mainstream Media Lies, Spin