TODAY’S QUESTIONS
TOPIC 1: HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING, HOW WOULD A CUBS FAN REACT TO THE SOX WINNING THE WORLD SERIES?
TOPIC 2: THE BEST PART OF THIS HOT STREAK FOR THE WHITE SOX IS …
TOPIC 3: FRANK ROBINSON AND FELIPE ALOU TURN 70 SOON. JACK MCKEON IS 74. HOW DO THEY KEEP MANAGING?
TOPIC 4: WHAT SHOULD BE THE NO. 1 TASK ON THE NEXT DEPAUL BASKETBALL COACH’S TO-DO LIST?
TOPIC 5: WHAT SPORTS-RELATED ACTIVITY IS JIMMY DOING ON HIS VACATION RIGHT NOW?
PHIL THOMPSON
They’ll dress up as Steve Bartman and jump like lemmings into Lake Michigan.
… we can start giving each Sox player a ridiculous nickname. Hey, Mike, is “Pappy” taken?
Well for Alou, managing Barry Bonds makes him feel like he’s raising kids again.
Recruiting. Only this season, let’s call it “begging.”
Something with pitchers …of margaritas.
LEO EBERSOLE
With the words, “Since when has there been another baseball team in Chicago?”
… Joe Crede and Jon Garland
living up to their billing–and killing me in Rotisserie Chicken.
How else are you going to get a chartered bus ride to the Denny’s?
Find the best recruiter who can teach the fundamentals and perform best under pressure. Voila.
Extreme cosmopolitan-drinking.
WHIZZER
The North Side would secede from the Union setting off this nation’s first in-state civil war.
… watching overly sensitive Sox fans smugly say, “I told you so” over and over again.
Each of them naps from the sixth inning on.
Set up a tab at Demon Dogs.
Ballroom dancing. But I cheated. He e-mailed me photos.
MIKE NORTH
Third rail.
… Cubs fans have to sit through it.
I don’t know, but Dusty better watch out because I think
Gene Mauch is still alive.
Tell everyone DePaul was kidding about going to the Big East.
Playing croquet at the Summit
Senior Citizens Home in Park Ridge and betting on it.
BAG BOY
Sales of Jameson shots in Wrigleyville jump 600 percent.
… it will end and crush my heart for the 1,457th time in my life.
They use that stuff Coach Ditka pitches. Can’t bring myself to
say it.
Sign an agreement not to leave until the job is done.
Hitting fungos into the Grand Canyon while muttering, “Corey Patterson is not a leadoff hitter.”
