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"When you see that the Blackhawks only had a 2.9 last night for their game at San Jose, which you have to find out through...alternative channels beyond the proud proclamations of McDonough, (sigh) you just have to wonder...not only, 'is any of this... this Blackhawks...thing really justified,' but was any of it ever justified at all? Have the Cubs, and to a much lesser extent Northwestern, really obviated this desire for not only a winner but a winner with... and I have to be careful here, traditionally white sensibilities?"
"Nah I hear ya. I get it. All I hear is DAAA EVERYONE LOVES DA HAWKS but did you really? did you really now? or did you just want to get together and have a certain kind of fun in a certain kind of way? Cuz you don't love 'em when they're losing in the first round. And don't say you still do! Maybe YOU do but the numbers don't love 'em. We got the numbers right here for you. You're not watchin'."
"And I think what's most shameful about this, what others will have to...to bear and to answer for in the coming years as they look back upon their careers, was the...the contrived Green Bay Packersness of the way this team was covered by many, of this team that could do no wrong, that we were all supposed to come together and root for, as if instructed from on high, and I know a lot of people who work in media in this town were NOT happy with what they were made to do and how they were made to do their damn jobs by forces conspiring above them, which is why I have nothing but respect for Mitch and for Julian Green and for everyone who has allowed us to... tocover the Cubs the way they deserve to be covered, with interest but with scrutiny, not as...some property to be blindly promoted."
"Yeah yeah yeah. I know what you're thinking, though, BUT YOU GUYS GOTS DA CUBS YER BIAS, well first of all it's biased with a D at the end, so like learn to read, but we do our work here. We work. We go out and we get you stories and feel proud of a job well done at the end of the day."
"I know I was never less proud of myself than when I was...really, in a lot of ways, forced to provide a reasoned opposition to the overwhelming prevailing thought on the Blackhawks and say that Cheryl Scott took so many pricks she should have found out what her allergies were. And I was disgusted with myself that it became, in a sense, incumbent upon me to mitigate the masses who, as we've found out, were not true hockey fans but were only attracted to the problematic allure of Patrick Kane. It's sad, really, but in a way it's not, because at least now we can say with certainty that the nightmare is over."
_________________ Molly Lambert wrote: The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.
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