Tribune Anti-Cuban Campaign?

[David]

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2007/10/now-thats-enter.html

 

Sullivan blasting Cuban in his blog. I love, BTW, how he says that Cuban is saying it's "OK" for players to use/have used steroids, when that isn't what he's saying at all.

 

That aside, how much could we/should we read into this? Are they trying to turn the public sentiment against Cuban?

[justin23iu]

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2007/10/now-thats-enter.html

 

Sullivan blasting Cuban in his blog. I love, BTW, how he says that Cuban is saying it's "OK" for players to use/have used steroids, when that isn't what he's saying at all.

 

That aside, how much could we/should we read into this? Are they trying to turn the public sentiment against Cuban?

 

This adds to the anti-Cuban piece by Mike Downey earlier in the year. It does seem odd that there has been no pro-Cuban sentiment among the Tribune's writers.

 

Edit: Here's Downey's piece: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/cs-070716downey,1,4824625.column?coll=cs-home-utility

[Sammy Sofa]

Yes, it makes complete sense for them to be actively orchestrating a media campaign to smear someone who wants to pay them a gigantic amount of money for something they're trying to sell.

[Banedon]

Heh...someone should email that piece to Mark...:D

[DivineBovine]

Why is everyone in the media so anti-Cuban? Has he ever been in jail? Has he ever broken the law? Has he ever mistreated his players or fans?

 

He is outspoken and tends to blast officiating. Big deal. There are plenty of people in sports that deserve being smeared in the media more than Cuban. Someone give me one good reason, as a fan, that I shouldn't want Cuban owning the team. And someone tell me how Cuban could be possibly be worse than the Tribune Company with their pathetic track record in putting a competitive team on the field.

[DivineBovine]

Sullivan is full of crap. Making this whole steroid thing out to be a moral issue that should preclude Cuban from making a good owner. I happen to agree with most of what Cuban said, and I couldn't agree more that athletes are entertainers and we shouldn't make them out to be more than that. But even if you don't agree with him, he's only expressing an opinion. And with regard to his ability to be an owner, I couldn't care less what he thinks about the steroid issue. He's not going to buy the team and start injecting steroids into the players.

[David]

Yes, it makes complete sense for them to be actively orchestrating a media campaign to smear someone who wants to pay them a gigantic amount of money for something they're trying to sell.

 

I know it doesn't make sense. Unless the fix is already in for Canning and they're trying to avoid an uproar...?

 

I got nothin.