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Happy Lunar New Year!
Call it writer’s block or call it sensible editing, but I’ve been stumbling around trying to collect my thoughts about the newest members of baseball’s Hall of Fame. I’ll do my best to get something out in the next couple of days. In the meantime, enjoy The Year of the Snake celebrations. I was born…
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39 years ago today
On January 26, 1986, the Chicago Bears defeated the Patriots 46-10 in New Orleans and later this year, all of Chicago will begin celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1985 Bears. I still have and occasionally wear the stocking hat my Aunt Pat and Uncle Jerry mailed to me in London. I proudly wore that…
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Are we supposed to be happy?
The other day, MLB announced their national TV schedule for the upcoming season. I’ve already forgotten what I read and not because the Cubs aren’t making 200 appearances. I’m worried that the Dodgers will be the featured team-which I expect after an historic victory over the Yankees. I am curious to see their recent addition,…
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Beware of false prophets..
Forget omens of biblical proportions and political hacks that misread polls, and the get-well gurus who mislead the general public either intentionally or by malfeasance, I’m concerned with the sports world in this rant. While not quite homebound like L.B Jefferies, in Rear Window, I’ve been confined to watching some of the NFL, and listening…
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R.I.P. Ueck!
I’m obviously not the first to post about the passing of Bob Uecker on Thursday at 90 years young. With all the physical challenges that he’s faced in the past 20 years (or so), it’s not hard to imagine that he was all of 90 years old. However, if you’ve listened to him in the…
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Cubs convention 2025
Amidst the hype of this weekend’s Cub Convention what you won’t hear or read about is that as of 3 minutes ago, weekend passes were still available-although hotel packages are sold out. I can’t remember the last time the lovefest wasn’t sold out by November. That won’t be part of the narrative, nor should it…
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Not living up to the hype..
The other day, a friend questioned my sports fandom when I told him I didn’t last beyond the 3-minute mark in the N.D-Penn State game. That I had to work that morning seemed to assuage his hurt feelings. Furthermore, I didn’t really care that much about the outcome. In the past week, sports tribalism has…
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Deja view all over again
Week 18 of the NFL aka I’ve had enough of the NFL thank you very much, afforded me the opportunity to look at some coincidental similarities between the Sox, Bears and lesser extent the Cubs. Because there is a salary cap in the NFL, nobody talks about big market v. small market teams. Nobody can…
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But I digress..
For the better part of the week, I’ve encountered more local antipathy for the woeful Bears than in years past. However, newer residents to the Greater Chicago Metro area have surprised me. Their adopted favorites haven’t been as big a disappointment. We tend to group natives and “citizens by choice” when we measure the pulse…
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Wisdom from the strangest places
Last weekend I accidentally bumped into the radio call of the DePaul men’s game against UConn. Thankfully, it was for about 48 seconds and I’m not sure if it was part of the pregame show. Regardless, longtime Blue Demon Dave Corzine remarked how the Huskies ran plays/sets as if it was a foreign concept. It…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 