Chicago - A message from the station manager

We Will Lose 100 Games

By Tom Latourette and Rick Kaempfer

We give so much, give our time and our money
We buy garages from Danley, and just for you.

100 Games

We drink Old Style, and we pay you $6.50
Though between you and me, that’s not good brew
And the price tag, to get hit with some concrete
that will crumble on our seat, is $52
And now we’re angry, cause we’re making history
Only seen in ’66 and ’62
And we might lose 100 games
And we could lose a few games more
It’s been just one bad century
But then again,who’s keeping score?

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Posted on September 21, 2012

The Blue & Orange Kool-Aid Report: Head For The Mountains

By Carl Mohrbacher

Look, there’s no shame in losing to the Packers in Green Bay. They’re a quality team and figure to be a big piece of the NFC landscape going forward.
However, there might be shame in dropping passes in the end zone . . . or shame in letting game-saving interceptions ricochet off of your palms . . . or shame in quickly wiping your hands on Clay Matthews just before he runs past you on his way to your quarterback . . .
To sum up Week Two, the Bears hands will go to the box, get two minutes to themselves, and they will feel shame.

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Posted on September 20, 2012

Fantasy Fix: Where’s Welker?

By Dan O’Shea

After just two weeks, I’ve decided it’s already time to hate the NFL, and how coaches, game plans and business distractions screw up otherwise brilliant fantasy football strategy.
Take, for example, the sudden fall of Patriots receiver Wes Welker, one of the top-ranked WRs in the preseason (and ranked higher by me than most) because he led the NFL in catches last year even in an offense that distributed a high percentage of its passes to its tight ends. Welker has long been a favored third-down target of one of the best QBs in the game.
However, through two games this season, he’s still lacking a score, and there are indications that the Pats just aren’t using him as often as they once did.
Much of this has been chalked up to coaching decisions and game plans that have sent Welker to the bench for many snaps in favor of other receivers, though the other circumstance is that the Pats reportedly don’t want to give Welker a new contract and are phasing him out of the offense.

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Posted on September 19, 2012

SportsMonday: Immature Bears Test Brass

By Jim Coffman

Whew but folks love to slam the Bears offensive line.
And with a shaky left side in particular, it is clearly a stretch at this point to classify this team as a prime championship contender.
But it says here the Bears are still plenty good enough to make the playoffs. It also says here that the people who are convinced the Bears can’t possibly succeed with the line struggling like it has are forgetting their recent history.

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Posted on September 17, 2012

Wings & Rings

By Roger Wallenstein

The modern term, I suppose, is Man Cave, although I’m not as consumed with naming it as I am with using it.
Originally the space was our business office when we operated one. Now the basement in our home serves a number of functions: a location for computers, files, laundry, storage, coolness from the summer heat, and, not incidentally, a lovely, comfortable couch in front of the largest flat screen that fits.
And it’s only half subterranean. Windows filter in unneeded sunlight, giving us a weather report any time we gaze outdoors.
If I ever intimated that this was my place – my private place – to observe the White Sox, my wife, dearest Judith, would simply indicate the part of my anatomy in most imminent danger. No, this is a combined affair, watching and waiting to see if our White Sox can outlast the Tigers in this most surprising of seasons.

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Posted on September 17, 2012

Even Kids Can’t Take It

By Marty Gangler

I took my 4-year-old son to his first Cub game on Sunday and I have to admit I got a little nostalgic. I remember going to the games with my dad and brothers through the years and hoped to make some memories of my own. And really, isn’t that why we are all here?
I mean, you aren’t reading this unless you are tied in to the Cubs or baseball in some way, and typically that’s through your parents, and that is even more typically your dad. So, the “history in the making” moment was all right there. And history was made. I took my son to his first game, that was part of the history, the other part was that it was my shortest game ever.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t think my 4-year-old was going to hang in there to sing that silly “Go Cubs Go” song, but I didn’t think it would be five batters into the game before he said, “Dad, I want to go home.”

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Posted on September 17, 2012

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