Semi-OT: Chicago Tribune Memo as New Sports Section Launches

Interesting leaked memo from the Tribune Tower regarding their rebranded sports section. Could dissect it for hours, but I'm sure you'll reach the same conjectures I do. Please note the fifth graph.

Rosenbloom five times a week... Enjoy your paper, Trib subscribers!

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Ugh.

More stuff that no one wants. Incidentally, the Chicago Breaking Sports site is already live.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 23, 2009 5:40 PM CDT reply actions

Rosenbloom daily?

What, sounds like some photos featuring tequila and a donkey are floating around somewhere.

Seriously, we all know the Tribune has the “better” paper. The only problem is that none of them are any good. The real fight is with the ESPN branded stuff, and frankly, they’re going to lose that one.

by Damen Jackson on Oct 23, 2009 9:00 PM CDT reply actions

Oh...

And thanks for the link, Chilango.

by Damen Jackson on Oct 23, 2009 9:01 PM CDT up reply actions

My pleasure.

I do find it interesting that no one has said anything about that fifth graph:

Much like the Cubune myth, the conventional wisdom among some in Chicago has been that our pals across the way have the better Sports section.

Or am I too sensitive?

by chilango2 on Oct 24, 2009 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, remember...

… that’s an internal memo intended to be viewed only by his employees.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 24, 2009 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions

Other ideas we like … -Where are they now: John Macchione, William Ligue? -Locker talker: What’s in there?

Finally, random irrelevancies and obscure peripheral figures break away from the totally free internet and pseudo-news Red Eye. This is the kind of stuff people want when they PAY for a newspaper, people!

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." ~Winston Churchill

by Goodie1969 on Oct 23, 2009 10:07 PM CDT reply actions

"Smack!"

Well…snap!!!!!!

That’s some hipster lingo there, partner! And that Twitter and Facebook….better get your accounts before they’re all filled up!!!

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Oct 24, 2009 1:38 PM CDT reply actions

Oh, brother

They tried this “in your face” crap in the mid to late 1990’s, and it turned a lot of people away. Those that don’t learn from history . . . .

Wow, the 1980’s really were a long time ago.

I'm singing, "GO CUBS GO! GO CUBS GO!" -- DrCrawdad on Jun 12, 2009 7:23 AM CDT

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! -- Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Oct 25, 2009 9:43 AM CDT reply actions

Sounds great...

…now all they have to do is get better sports writers!

"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel

by MPH73 on Oct 25, 2009 12:23 PM CDT reply actions

FWIW...

… the new section is a great big yawn. They have a couple new features on page 2 (Rosenbloom, boring as ever), a new logo on the front page (blue, reading “Chicago Sports”), and the same old layout inside.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 26, 2009 10:56 AM CDT reply actions

Thanks for the update.

I bet they’re all suffering from NFL heartbreak today.

by chilango2 on Oct 26, 2009 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions

I bought both a Tribune and Sun-Times today...

…in the hopes that I could do a thorough analysis of both sports sections and post a comparison of the two – a tale of the tape if you will. But about two minutes later I found myself thinking “there’s $1.50 I’ll never see again…”

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Oct 26, 2009 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions