More trouble in Murdochistan

Rupert must be hating life right now, and for good reason.

The phone hacking scandal that his tabloid News of the World engendered has bore some genuinely poisonous fruit; News is closing down in the wake of the scandal; reporter Andy Coulson is probably going to be arrested on July 8th as a result of his role in the scandal (which also serves to embarass current British PM David Cameron, since Coulson was his director of communications prior to joining the News); everybody from AdWeek to Media Matters is getting their jollies out of this scandal, and - in what might be a particularly colossal sin in Murdochistan - News Corp's holdings are losing shitloads of money over this mess. 

In my opinion, it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy, but then I find it somewhat difficult to take pity on a multi-billionaire who made a large portion of his money off of dayglo-bright yellow journalism that would've made William Randolph Hearst blush in his prime.

MLB power(less) rankings

White Sox 17th, Cubs 28th out of 30 teams according to Joe Lemire of SI.com:

At least Adam Dunn has kept his sense of humor. The White Sox DH, who has a terrible .166/.302/.308 batting line, hit an innocuous fourth-inning single off the Royals' Jeff Francis, but the Chicago fans gave him a sarcastic standing ovation as it was just his second hit off a lefty pitcher in 55 at bats this year (an .036 batting average compared to a .235 clip against southpaws entering the year).

As for the Cubs, let's just say that being that average won't get you a .500 record. What it will get you is a 35-53 mark, which equates to a .398 winning percentage and a mere 5-game lead over the Houston Astros, the current Most Beknighted MLB Team In This and Any Other Universe. Translation: 29th best winning percentage in the bigs, right behind the slightly less dismal Kansas City Royals, for crying out loud.  

In the classic words of Bill from The Terrible Thunderlizards, "when does the hurting stop"?