TODAY’S QUESTIONS
TOPIC 1: can kerry wood become an effective closer?
TOPIC 2: how has the average sox fan’s life changed since opening day?
TOPIC 3: mike north was right: larry brown bolted for new york. ok then, where is larry in five years?
TOPIC 4: soccer phenom freddy adu’s first car is a $44,000 BMW. what was your first car?
TOPIC 5: predict the attendance at the blackhawks’ first home game of the season.
JIMMY GREENFIELD
Effective, but not cost-effective. Even with 50 saves, that would still be around $200,000 a save.
Afraid to jinx the first-place White Sox, they’re refusing to trim their mullets.
The quiet member of the top radio duo, “North & Brown.”
A 1969 red Mattel. It was a baby magnet.
20,612, proving once again that sports fans are saps.
LEO EBERSOLE
No.
They pay less attention to the Cubs and more attention to how much worse the Cubs are than the Sox.
In an institution after breaking his contract with the Knicks to take over the Washington Generals.
It was a ’96 Pontiac Sunfire, the fastest car on the road–the road being my parents’ driveway.
Twelve thousand after the team says it will take $1 off the ticket price for every tooth missing.
PHIL THOMPSON
He’s more of a set-up reliever, as in he sets you up for disappointment.
They’re still contemptuous and paranoid, but now you can add obnoxious.
Worming out of his contract with Earth for an expansion team on Jupiter.
A Geo Metro, which means I had no first car.
They have $10 tickets now,
right? Ten, maybe 12. People,
not thousand.
BAG BOY
More effective than LaTroy Hawkins, less effective than
John Smoltz.
Their usual Cub-bashing packs a much bigger punch.
As president of the U.S., he leaves office to take the Celtics’ GM job.
Uh, I ride the bus a lot. Next question …
9,000. That’s 4,500 losers and 4,500 blow-up dolls. Mine’s named “Shirley,” thanks for asking.
MIKE NORTH
He already has been an effective closer; he signed for $32 million.
We’re more panicked then ever before.
Coaching the U.S. team for the
Senior Olympics.
1963 Chevy Impala. I blew out the engine after 18,000 miles.
Bill Wirtz’s close family, friends and die-hard fans. So under 5,000.
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