You don’t have a lot of time and, frankly, neither do we. So let’s get right to our panel of RedEye sports experts and let them speak for themselves:
JIMMY Greenfield
TOPIC 1: what’s a good sports movie quote applicable to every day life?
“Tanqueray and Tab, and keep ’em comin’.” Anybody? OK, “Kingpin.”
TOPIC 2: what will we talk about after the bears’ season ends?
I think we’re going to break up. It’s not you, it’s me.
TOPIC 3: should the cubs make kerry wood their closer?
Nope. Good closers can fall into your lap. Good starters almost never do.
TOPIC 4: would you ever hit on a teammate’s wife?
Only if I played in the WNBA.
TOPIC 5: who stars in the ‘The charlie weis story’ movie?
The guy who played Biff in “Back to the Future.”
PHIL Thompson
TOPIC 1: what’s a good sports movie quote applicable to every day life?
“Show me the money!” That’s right, I said it. Somebody had to.
TOPIC 2: what will we talk about after the bears’ season ends?
Same thing we were talking about in October: next Bears season.
TOPIC 3: should the cubs make kerry wood their closer?
Closer, no. Clothier, absolutely.
TOPIC 4: would you ever hit on a teammate’s wife?
If Vanessa Bryant put you up to this, tell her she had her chance.
TOPIC 5: who stars in the ‘The charlie weis story’ movie?
Does the late Rodney Dangerfield have a son?
LEO Ebersole
TOPIC 1: what’s a good sports movie quote applicable to every day life?
“The price is wrong, [bleep].” That’s “Happy Gilmore.”
TOPIC 2: what will we talk about after the bears’ season ends?
We will try to justify not drafting Braylon Edwards, but why fight it?
TOPIC 3: should the cubs make kerry wood their closer?
Good grief, no. Did everyone just forget about the 2003 ALDS?
TOPIC 4: would you ever hit on a teammate’s wife?
No. Nor would I be caught dead in a cowboy hat.
TOPIC 5: who stars in the ‘The charlie weis story’ movie?
Brian Dennehy. There’s nothing he can’t do.
Whizzer
TOPIC 1: what’s a good sports movie quote applicable to every day life?
“You didn’t come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya?” –“The Bad News Bears.”
TOPIC 2: what will we talk about after the bears’ season ends?
Bag Boy’s body odor. Seriously, someone needs a good spritzing.
TOPIC 3: should the cubs make kerry wood their closer?
Yes. And I’ll leave tickets for Natalie Portman.
TOPIC 4: would you ever hit on a teammate’s wife?
Never. Now if Bag Boy’s wife hits on me, Whizzer can’t help it.
TOPIC 5: who stars in the ‘The charlie weis story’ movie?
Whoopi Goldberg. That is, if she’s available.
Bag Boy
TOPIC 1: what’s a good sports movie quote applicable to every day life?
In “Brian’s Song” when Gayle Sayers says, “I love Brian Piccolo.”
TOPIC 2: what will we talk about after the bears’ season ends?
We immediately talk 1) NFL draft, 2) training camp, 3) 3-13 in 2005.
TOPIC 3: should the cubs make kerry wood their closer?
If it makes Carlos Beltran happy, then by all means.
TOPIC 4: would you ever hit on a teammate’s wife?
Yes, but only to get her husband to sign my–NOW WAIT A SECOND.
TOPIC 5: who stars in the ‘The charlie weis story’ movie?
Sean Astin. “Ru-dee! Ru-dee!”
