Crying Into His Empty Glass

Difference in passion for #hockey in Chicago and LA? Just look at front pages. #Blackhawks http://t.co/Rrv15oF9Uw

— Ed Sherman (@Sherman_Report) June 2, 2014

Ed Sherman, a sports media writer, weighs in with some sad rat's tears after the Chicago Blackhawks were eliminated in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. This journalist's research on the passion for hockey covers front page grabs of the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. For Los Angeles, he posts the front page of the Los Angeles Times and the ... curveball ... Orange County Register.

@Sherman_Report See the front page of Los Angeles Register rather than OC Register. The Ducks are at the first tee, waiting for the Hawks

— Mark Pargas (@denverspurs) June 2, 2014

So this Lounge owner offers this journalist the idea that perhaps it was the Los Angeles Register that he needed to dip into.

@Sherman_Report Or LA Daily News and Riverside Press-Enterprise. More front pages in LA than the one paper that folks from Chicago ruined.

— Mark Pargas (@denverspurs) June 2, 2014

And then I felt that perhaps I was being too stingy with this journalist. So I offered a few more front pages. And if we were dealing with the 1980s, then maybe this theory would have held more weight, considering that newspapers used to be a good window on their community. But this being the Twen-Teens and the fact that I don't require a print edition of a newspaper unless I need to start up my fireplace, I feel there is more out there that a journalist with a desire to tell a real story might be able to cite or dig into.

And, OH THE HORRORS, he found things placed below the fold! Last century, Mr. Sherman. Time to find a new metric, or five. (Which I am sure you can find, and with which you just may prove your point correct. Just sayin.)

And to my point about a group of Chicagoans and the Los Angeles Times. I apologize if I offended anyone with whom I worked and who are still there, doing their best amid trying conditions. I should have said ravaged, pillaged or ransacked rather than ruined, which has a note of finality to it.

OK, I am fired up and ready for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday.