Potpourri of Fun

As we enter into the summer season, I offer you a potpourri for your senses.

Homerun call we’d love to hear: Call Pamela Anderson because Bay watches that one fly out of here!

Apparently what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas: Bad news to report – After scouring the World Series of Poker website, I could not see that Bob finished in the money in Event #25. (or Event #27) Since Bob appears to be a rather talented poker player, I can only attribute his poor luck to not having a cool poker nickname. A lot of the top players have great names. There’s Mike the Mouth, Amarillo Slim, The Professor (not our own Dave Holian, but Howard Lederer), The Unabomber, Fossilman. I think that’s what is holding Bob back. So to try and help him out, I’ve come up with some sure winners and a couple of alsorans.

* Plainfield Bob (Doesn’t really have a kick to it, nevermind)
* Insaniac (He is a father of four young ‘uns afterall)
* Red Hot Bob (A tribute to his grandfather and the CFCL all wrapped in one)
* Mr. Amazing (How does a guy convince his wife he should go to Vegas for a week and a half and gamble?)
* Dirty Rat Bastard (First year in the league last year and he finishes ahead of me, not to mention that this year he steals Kelly Johnson from me in the draft so I guess it would be . . . )
* . . . Double Dirty Rat Bastard

Can’t be right all the time: It appears that the Monroe Doctrine doesn’t share the same opinion as vaunted Tribune sportswriter, Teddy Greenstein. Teddy kicked out an article in advance of the Cubs/Sox series giving grades to the four baseball broadcast teams. He grades Santo/Hughes as an A-, even going so far as to laud Hughes for his overpronounciation of Matt Murton. I don’t know that they deserve an A, but I do have to give Hughes credit for taking his traditional 5th inning break while the Cubs were in Texas and therefore letting Corey Provis get the chance to call Sosa’s 600th homerun. Hughes obviously saw that Sosa was due up and anything was possible. But he didn’t bigtime Provis. Of course, if I were Hughes, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near Sosa and his 600th.

Greenstein did get one grade right. He gives Farmer/Singleton a D. If Farmer would show half the class and professionalism that Hughes does working with Santo, the Sox radio broadcast would actually be listenable.

Happy Anniverary: Yesterday to Ryne Sandberg and Bruce Sutter. Twenty three years ago marked the coming out party for Sandberg and the Division winning Cubs. And to celebrate, Uncle Lou managed like Don Zimmer in ’89. A good day all around.