Very nice little tribute to The Hawk on the greatest of weekends by WGN here. And it’s so nice to hear Harry Caray I don’t even know what to say, so I won’t.
I hate to bash Mr. Cub, but c’mon already. This is like when grandpa got into the Christmas wine a few hours early. All the wild gesticulation definitely isn’t necessary, but keeping up with the song is. Ernie might have to retire from singing after this.
Ernie was the first ballplayer I can remember who would wear his own ‘Mr. Cub’ logo hat everywhere instead of a regular blue Cubs cap. I always hated that. We all know who he is for crissake. But he wanted to have his own ‘brand’ like all the other cool kids, so he completely eschewed the team and logo that made him a household name. I plan on doing that someday too. When all your kids are wearing one of my fancy ‘CC’ logo caps around town to church and whatnot, I’ll just grab whatever they have at the souvenir stand on the way into the ballpark and sport that for a year or so, like always.
Someone, somewhere still doesn’t get it. These guys going on national TV trying to salvage their ‘brand’ and in turn jokingly bragging about the huge markets and proud franchises they collectively spurned…is a bad idea. Bad. Who does not get that? And Kimmel brilliantly drinks it all in. Notice at the end he got a dig in at Wade for all us Chi-towners. I bet that was explicitly designed for some hateful sports blogger like me to mention. As a matter of fact, it probably was meant directly for me. So, here ya go, Jimmy. Mission accomplished. Just let me know what you need next. We’ll use the extra-fourth-letter-of-your-monologue method on the first Tuesday of the month like always.
I hate posting stuff from Baseball Tonight, but with no Cubs it’s a slow night and this is pretty good. Juan Samuel has a lot to live up to as an Oriole manager, though. This wouldn’t even make an Earl Weaver top 20. of 1978.
However, you can’t disagree with the sentiment. Another jackass umpire who insists he’s right…to the potential detriment of other men’s livelihoods…when he’s clearly wrong, yet again.
Who do I have to bang to get some instant replay up in this beyotch? Cause I’ll do what it takes.
