FRIDAY MORNING
If you missed today's show---you didn't miss much. Another dull day.
But, if you have any complaints, please feel free to post them here.
It's cheaper than market research.
In other news, we're heading towards the All-Star break, a time when baseball fans argue about who should've made the cut, which league is better etc.
If you are a fan of the July tradition, you may be interested in the boardgame, Cadaco All-Star baseball game (made in Chicago) which was what kids played before videogames.
In my Red Eye column a year ago, I wrote that when my 10-year-old nephew comes to town, I jump at the chance to play my Cadaco All-Star Baseball game. It's from the mid-70s and features a pop-up ivy wall and Wrigley Field scoreboard. The wall has since collapsed, but the spinning needle still works on the statistically accurate 'player discs' for greats like Willie McCovey, Bill Madlock and Carl Yastrzemski.
I got a call from one reader from Virginia (a Chicago native) who also still plays the game. Apparently, the web has brought Cadaco All-Star fans together. We met a Magggianos in Schaumburg this week to play a three-game series, in which my American League team, made up of players from the 70's, defeated his National League stars from the 1950's three games to one. I just wanted to provide you hard data if you are arguing about the best league, or era, in your All-Star baseball debates Tuesday night.
Comments
A pretty quiet show, to be sure, though it was hard to miss David Carradine dropping the F-bomb before start of the 8:00 hour. Or was I imagining things?
Posted by: Jasmine | July 11, 2008 10:14 AM
I like to turn on WGN morning news to hear what is going on locally. However this morning when I turned on my television around 7:45, they had someone on making a pitch for his movie which is showing somewhere locally. I was SHOCKED when out of his mouth came the "F" word. Where is the decency in television today? How can a guest get away with such language on the show?. Do they fine the stations when people use this type of language? Children are listening and most parents don't want them to hear this type of language. I am a senior citizen and I was offended.
Posted by: Betsy | July 11, 2008 10:17 AM
Congrats to David Carradine for livening up everyone's morning with the F-bomb. Any talk of getting Gary Busey and Carradine together to run their own talk show. It might set records for the most FCC fines in the history of television.
Posted by: Eric Nelson | July 11, 2008 1:28 PM
I haven't laugh so hard or loud when
David Carradine was introduced on the show. when he dropped the f-bomb my husband and i nearly wet our pants. stuff like this makes your show the BEST!!!
Posted by: Nora | July 11, 2008 8:27 PM