Libertarian Librarian

Okay, you're all probably sick of the bias thing, but I was looking at ESPN.com just now and the pro-big market bias just really struck me. Maybe that's just good marketing, since most of their patrons come from NY, Chicago, and L.A., but their treatment of the Brewers was really quite striking, I thought.

Exhibit A: The link to the recap of last night's game between the Cubs and the Brewers isn't listed as "Brewers win fifth straight" or "Cubs unable to slow Brewers down" or anything like that. Instead, the most prominent Cubs link is "Cubs put Woods on DL" and then next to that "Cubs lose again." The Brewers aren't even mentioned. Okay, well, the Brewers have sucked for a long, long time and the Cubs are quite popular, so okay. But then you click on the "Cubs lose again" link to go to the game recap, and you get to...

Exhibit B: A picture of winning Brewer pitcher, Chris Capuano, who gave up one run in seven innings has the following caption:

Milwaukee Brewers starter Carlos Zambrano throws a pitch in the sixth inning against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, May 3, 2005, in Milwaukee. The Brewers won 4-1. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

For the baseball illiterate, by the way, Carlos Zambraon was the losing pitcher last night and he IS a Chicago Cub. And finally:

Exhibit C: In the Game Notes section of the game recap there are three items. All of them about Cubs' players.

Sigh.

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