Giving White Sox announcers short Schriff(en)

OK, possibly not the most flattering Harry Caray photo ever taken.Drat that Paul Sullivan, anyway. The Tribune columnist used the occasion of some celebration of Harry Caray by That Other Team in Town to comment on fledgling White Sox announcer John Schriffen and how a little more Caray-like honesty might be in order. That’s just fine, and it was a good piece, but I’d been thinking about that very thing for a couple of weeks and don’t much care for being beaten to it just because I procrastinated a bunch. But, what the heck, let’s march on.

Older Sox fans can just hear the growl of, “Ah, that wouldn’t be a home run in a phone booth.” Instead, the new guy is more apt to say, “he just missed…