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Ron Santo was scratched from today's broadcast.

Roy Oswalt has requested a trade. Go get 'em, Kenny!

I have nothing bad to say about Ron-DL White, Cliff Floyd or even Marquis de Suc, so I guess it sucks they were scammed.

However, doesn't it brighten your day to know that Todd Hundley's millions he stole from the Cubs were in turn stolen from him?

And also, Gregg Jefferies. I fucking hated Gregg Jefferies worse than cancer.

The NCAA Tournament gets four play-in games! Weeeeeeeee!

But buried in the lede is news that TBS, Tru and TNT get a piece of the tourney with CBS.

Maybe Chip Caray and Billy Packer can pair up for a few games?

Anyone care to note how stupid it is to "honor" Jackie Robinson by having everyone wear the same number?

1) It's a shallow gesture. To me, it almost reeks of Buddyboy convincing himself he's not a racist.
2) It makes life difficult for Pat Hughes who is trying to figure out who's doing what out there (who's up in the bullpen, who's pinch-hitting, etc.)
3) Are you really honoring Jackie by allowing Ryan Theriot or Jeff Samardzija to wear No. 42?

Doesn't this make as much sense as letting another guy from an era of shitty ND football pitch?

Who gets the biggest ovation at Busch today? The Genius? Poo-holes? Matt Holliday? Stan Musial?

Nah.

Shut up until your investment owns a World Series title. Something about them makes me a little nervous. Can't put my finger on it, but I give it until June when Mike D. will begin wishing Andy MacPhail or Don Grenesko or John Madigan still ran the club.

Fuck it. Joe Ricketts will lead Mitt Romney to the White House and then crankily take over the Cubs from his children and within 60 days have them into a 1927 Yankees-esque juggernaut before running for Mayor of Chicago in 2 1/2 years and crushing Rahm in a landslide.

Goddamn it. I like J. Joseph Ricketts the best, and I think he'd lead the franchise to great things. Alas, Tom, Todd, Laura and Pete have only 50% of his DNA.

When do the Bears show up in Bourbonnais?

Sports Central headed for the dustbin of history just days after inviting Kermit, Andy and Chuck.

It's perfectly reasonable to expect the fine patrons of Chicago hotels coming in to spend a night or two so they can take in a few Cubs' games or attend theater or go to any of the fine street festivals or shop on the mag mile or conduct business in one of the world's financial centers to subsidize the White Sox' stadium. But it's reprehensible that a guy in Glendale who gets lost looking for meth and winds up buying a $10 ticket to a White Sox-Royals split squad game to have one dollar go to build the Cubs a new stadium.

I hate subsidized sports complexes, but isn't this "Cubs tax" more of a user fee than the Reinsdorf-Big Jim Thompson deal that taxed the shit out of hotels to pay for Comiskular (and later Soldier Field)?

I had to put up with shitty baseball, a terrible arm in right field, a guy who didn't get on base enough, and a last place ballclub. But through it all, I managed to perform well at my job.

Jacque Jones "proud" of overcoming Cubs' ordeal?

Fuck you, Jock.

He's a war hero, a blowhard, a pork king, and a guy who served somewhat honorably in Congress. Dead at 77.

Bill Gleason, dead at age 87. Preceded in death by Ben Bentley and Rick Telander, making Bill Jauss the only living Sportswriter on TV left.

Rosenthal has some outstanding Sportswriters on TV footage.

George Michael (of Sports Machine fame) dead at 70.

Cross Shanahan's name off the list.

If Tank Johnson and Urlacher can vouch for Eddie Vrdolyak, how much of a crook can he be?

I can't handle Santo's groans and moans and doddering-old-man bit anymore. It's tiresome, it's irritating, it's not illuminating (a good call that goes against the Cubs is as protested as a legit bad call), and I'm burned out.

I know Mike D. agrees to some extent, but I'm also at the point where I'll listen to the opposing team on my phone instead of listening to Santo. In fact, that's maybe what I'll do for the weekend series. Scully for the first 3 innings followed by Charley Steiner and great American (and former Cub) Rick Monday sounds a lot better than Santo's sad sack bit along with 8 innings of Hughes and 1 inning of Bob Sirrott's nephew.

This team wouldn't get any runs after a steady diet of E-coli-tainted White Castle, ExLax and Mexican tap water.