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| 2:02
| Stan's nose is running, he's sneezing and he doesn't know if he snorted something. Steve came in at the right time. |
| 2:03
| What's Stan carrying? Can he lay down a few rails for Steve? It could just be allergies. Steve has to take two allergies pills per day. |
| 2:04
| The hot humid weather seems to increase the mold count which could be Stan's problem. Steve doesn't really keep track of mold counts but it could be something for Stan to do. |
| 2:05
| Stan saw his first coyote today. Was it at a Subway or do they all prefer Quizno's? The coyote was near the driving range off Lake Shore Drive, hunting a rabbit. |
| 2:06
| Steve could use a wild coyote in his backyard. It would be really messy though. The meter reader doesn't even like going into Steve's yard when the dogs are in the house, imagine what it would be like if there was a coyote back there. |
| 2:07
| Stan was one of several people at the driving range but the coyote still kept coming close to them to get the rabbit. At first no one believed it was a coyote but then they saw the tail. |
| 2:08
| It's funny to Steve that Bonnie is in a tailspin about the Cubs. They're only one game out. She's like the white, female Terry Armour. |
| 2:09
| Steve was watching the White Sox last night because he still doesn't think they're out of it. Steve Stone is very good with Hawk calling the games. |
| 2:10
| At the end of the game Hawk called him Stone Pony and Steve coined that nickname for him. Even Garry would probably admit that. It was cool to hear that though but Steve's been calling him Stone Pony since the 80s. |
| 2:11
| Steve's getting sick of Hawk and DJ, especially when the Sox are losing. All the do is talk about themselves and their playing days. Steve Stone does a good job of keeping Hawk on track. |
| 2:12
| Steve was also watching that pitch-by-pitch game tracker on MLB.com during the game. That thing is excellent to watch. |
| 2:13
| The game tracker also has something that charts each pitch with the release speed and the speed when the ball crosses the plate and the arch of the pitch. Steve understood most of the stats except for one that was abbreviated pFC. |
| 2:14
| That's part of the measurement of how a pitch is breaking. Stan assumes it's some sort of co-efficient. Terry's trying to bring up a game on MLB.com but first he has to choose which one to watch. |
| 2:15
| Caller Joe just looked up the information on Wikipedia and pFC stands for power factor correction. According to Wikipedia pFC "is a technique of counteracting the undesirable effects of electric loads that create a power factor that is less than 1." |
| 2:16
| That doesn't sound like the info Steve is looking for. Stan thinks that might be it if you're talking about the way a pitch is breaking. Steve can't really talk about this sort of stuff with Stan. He can talk with Buzz about it because he doesn't really care. |
| 2:17
| Terry has trouble watching the game tracker because there's so much else going on. How can he even get on there if his computer is so slow? |
| 2:18
| Terry doesn't even understand why you need information like this. What's the point of knowing it? |
| 2:19
| Ed Silha is on the phone and he has the answer. The pFX lists how the ball breaks either side to side or up and down when a pitch is thrown. |
| 2:20
| Steve's a little mad at Ed. His T1 line wasn't working this morning so he emailed Ed about it. When Ed woke up and got the email he said it seemed to be working fine. |
| 2:21
| When Steve sends someone an email saying something isn't working, it's not working. He's not making it up. Steve's not really mad at Ed though. |
| 2:22
| Caller Todd seems to be saying the same thing Ed is saying. It all seems very unnecessary to Terry though. |
| 2:23
| Terry doesn't like it, we get that. He's on record as saying it's a useless stat. |
| 2:24
| Stan thinks Ed Farmer might be able to answer this question. Ed doesn't know stuff like that, he just put some spit on a ball and threw it really hard. If he didn't like something you were doing he hit you with a pitch. |
| 2:25
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone and he has the answer. First of all, the pFX or pitch f/x data is currently available in 8 ballparks and will be in all 30 by the end of the season. |
| 2:26
| The pFX measures the distance between the location of the actual pitch thrown over the plate and the calculated location of a ball thrown by a pitcher the same way with no spin. |
| 2:27
| Steve might be in agreement with Terry, maybe we don't need to know all of this information. |
| 2:37
| It's Thursday which means it's time for Music Snob Corner with our own Pete Zimmerman, noted music snob. |
| 2:38
| Pete is very glad Steve cleared up all that stuff on the MLB Gameday. Is he making fun of Steve or is he serious? |
| 2:39
| Pete always keeps track of the Gameday so he's glad to know what all that stuff means. Steve only noticed it last night. Stan also threw in that the pitch is coming from a mound. Steve only wants to know about the break of a pitch. It seems unnecessary though. |
| 2:40
| Steve was disappointed to learn that pitch speed, which is a highly touted stat, is measured from when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. |
| 2:41
| Steve mentioned to Stan and Terry that Bonnie is in a tailspin about the Cubs. For some reason Steve thinks Bonnie is an irritating Cubs fan the way Tina is an irritating Sox fan. |
| 2:42
| After a week's worth of sports from Tina he realized that she really doesn't know that much about sports. Pete's pretty sure that Tina gets a lot of info fed to her through her sister. |
| 2:43
| Pete is not worried about the Cubs, they're still one game out. Our own Jim is the worst Cubs fan Pete knows though. He's not a poser like Bonnie, he's the other way. He's very negative about the Cubs and Pete has banned him from texting and IMing him during games. |
| 2:44
| Steve's trying to call Jim but the phone isn't working. Steve was told that a new console was installed on the right side of the phone bank but that was the one that was working before. |
| 2:45
| Steve also feels that installing a new right side is prejudiced against him, a left-handed person. He might have to sue, it's leftism and ageism and maybe even fatism. That's three isms which means a lot of money for Steve. Jim's on hold right now but Steve would like him to hang up so he can call him back. |
| 2:46
| What we really need to do is get a technician from Telos up here to look at the phone. It seems to be working now. |
| 2:47
| Jim agrees that he can be irritating but he's fine with it. Every night he's on a ledge about the Cubs but by the next morning he feels better. They're only one game out. |
| 2:48
| Steve thinks that Cubs fans are going to put too much pressure on the team and then it'll be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Jim didn't freak out when Soriano went down although it seems like the team did. The media also freaked out when Soriano went down and the team probably saw that. |
| 2:49
| What really sent Jim into a tailspin was hearing that the Cubs might be looking for a third basemen on the waiver wires. Aramis Ramirez is coming back to Chicago to have his wrist examined. That does sound like a red flag to Steve. |
| 2:50
| Steve can see how Jim could be irritating about the Cubs. They're only one game out. Even if they get swept by the Rockies and end up 5 games out, there's still a lot of time left. |
| 2:51
| Pete's not too worried because he trusts Lou. He is hoping that Lou will go off on the team sometime soon though. If he does it in the thin air of Denver he'll probably pass out. That would be great to see. |
| 2:52
| Pete and Jim were talking about Bronx is Burning today. In the last episode Lou Piniella was really upset about the way the Yankees were playing. |
| 2:55
| Pete's not sure what song to play today. It's great how the momentum builds with Pete and then he doesn't have a song to play. |
| 2:56
| Pete has two songs to choose from. We really need to get Pete some psychiatric help. Who else would come into the studio and not know what song to play? Everyone else would be afraid to do that. |
| 2:57
| Is Pete just getting back at Steve for sending him to Lollapalooza knowing he'd fail? This is why no one wants to hang out with Pete except Catman. And Catman's only there so he can use Steve's name to get laid. |
| 2:58
| Steve gifted Pete the new Okkervil River CD 2 days ago so he thought about playing one of those songs. There were no strings attached to that $9.99. |
| 2:59
| Pete will select a different song then. That was his concern? He thought Steve would be mad if he didn't play one of those songs? Steve doesn't even remember the name of the band. |
| 3:00
| Pete did hear the new Okkervil River CD was awesome though. He needs to focus on the song he's going to play though, not Okkervil River. The song Pete chooses is usually obscure enough, he doesn't need to add another layer to this. |
| 3:01
| The whole point of this segment is to have a payoff, which is antithetical to the way Pete is. After the show Pete needs to go back and listen to this segment and then he can tell Steve if he wants him to get him professional help or not. |
| 3:02
| Maybe Pete will get a hot, unethical psychiatrist to help him through his problems. |
| 3:03
| Pete is extremely weird but so is Steve. Pete's weird usually works for Steve so he's not trying to be mean. Someday when Steve stops doing this what is Pete going to do? That's what Steve is worried about because then he'll have a death on his hand. Pete is hoping that by the time Steve does retire the Pete & Mary Show will be taking off. Steve thinks Mary will drop Pete like a hot potato after trying to deal with him for about 20 minutes. |
| 3:04
| Steve would rather be talking to Stan about physics than talk about all of this stuff with Pete. We need to get Buzz in here for a second opinion on Pete. |
| 3:11
| Steve's decided that he's just going to enjoy Pete's craziness and not try to change them. Steve cares about Pete and keeps thinking he'll say something and he'll change. |
| 3:12
| Pete thinks he might make some changes in his life. It seems like it's better just to make fun of the crazy stuff Pete does. |
| 3:13
| Playing Okkervil River would certainly be a payoff since they were talked about earlier in the week. That's probably why Pete shied away from playing it. Deep down he knows what's right. |
| 3:14
| Song: Plus Ones, Okkervil River |
| 3:18
| Is Steve supposed to understand that song because Pete said he would and he doesn't. The song references several songs with numbers in the title but adds one number to it. |
| 3:19
| Buzz didn't catch that but he enjoyed it. Pete feels that Will Sheff is one of rock and roll's greatest young songwriters. According to Pete. |
| 3:20
| Steve was looking at his iTunes during the song and saw there was a new New Pornographers album out. Then he wondered why we couldn't play something from that. |
| 3:21
| Pete already played a New Pornographers song a couple of months ago. He has high hopes that Okkervil River will be a big band. |
| 3:22
| Once they're a big band though Pete will lord it over people for a day and then drop them because they're too popular. |
| 3:23
| It also occurred to Steve during that song that it might not be the best song on the album. As Pete was going through their new album a lot of the songs had profanity so obviously he didn't select those. |
| 3:24
| There was one other song that Pete thought about but it's a bit of a rocker. Pete prefers the fruity ballads. He loves fruit and fruity ballads. |
| 3:25
| Song: Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe, Okkervil River |
| 3:28
| That was good but Steve liked the first one too. Pete was thinking about something while he was at Lollapalooza. Here we go. Just when Steve thought he was out of this. Steve's going to take him in the other and tell him that no bit ever goes anywhere when you don't say "yeah but..." |
| 3:29
| Pete watched 2 bands at Lollapalooza on Friday, LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk. They're both dance bands and according to several people Pete danced his ass off, shirtless. |
| 3:30
| It occurred to Pete, while looking at the huge crowd of people, that a lot of them would listen to Steve and like it. So that's his mission statement with these songs? |
| 3:31
| That's Steve's mission statement too but it shouldn't take an hour and a half. Sometimes it's enjoyable though, like today. |
| 3:32
| All Pete has to say is "yeah but". That's the key to Second City too, that's all you have to do. If that's not there then it's just Pete sitting there saying he's not crazy even though there's plenty of anecdotal evidence demonstrating he is crazy. |
| 3:33
| It is a fun kind of crazy and Steve does like Pete. He should probably do the crazy stuff off the air. It's a very productive crazy for Steve though. |
| 3:34
| If Pete's happy then Steve's happy. In Mexico Steve saw Pete pull a listener out of the lobby on the first day. He probably should have waited until the last day though. He had to hide from that listener all week long. |
| 3:37
| Steve has a story to tell Buzz that involves the gentleman sitting to his left. On Monday Steve was out running in the heat, listening to his iPod on shuffle. Dialogues pts. 1 & 2 came on and Steve was loving it because he loves the band Chicago. |
| 3:38
| Then he thought that Danny Seraphine from Chicago was one of the best rock drummers ever. The next day we got a call from Danny's people seeing if Steve wanted to have him on the show. Danny is now with CTA which stands for California Transit Authority. |
| 3:39
| Then Steve remembered that Danny once owned a club in Schaumburg called Beginnings. Steve played there and Buzz might have been with him. |
| 3:40
| Luckily Danny didn't remember ever talking to Steve at the club. Steve was worried he had lectured Danny about the music business or something. He had a lot of lecture powder in him at the time. |
| 3:41
| Danny left the band Chicago in 1990. It says he was fired which seems weird since he started the band. Danny was trying to figure that out too but eventually he stopped looking in the rearview mirror. |
| 3:42
| Now Danny's just proud of what the band did when he was in it. He hopes that other bands today get to experience the same thing. |
| 3:43
| Steve always got a kick out of the trombone player in Chicago on live shows. Even though there were a ton of guys on stage, he was always saying "thank you" the loudest. |
| 3:44
| Terry Kath was the lead singer of Chicago until his death in 1978. His death was ruled a suicide but a lot of people think it was an accident. |
| 3:45
| At the time of Terry's death there were a lot of heavy drugs in the band. Terry was really into guns and target practice and 6 weeks before his death everyone told him he needed to be careful. |
| 3:46
| Terry died because he put a gun to his head and thought there were no bullets in it. Turns out he didn't clear the chamber and shot himself. So it was an accidental suicide. |
| 3:47
| Danny has a new album out with his band CTA. Steve can play one of the songs now. |
| 3:48
| CTA is playing Festa Italiana tomorrow, it's the first time he's played in Chicago in years. |
| 3:49
| Danny is able to call his band California Transit Authority but the rumor was back in the day he couldn't use CTA. |
| 3:50
| Danny now owns the rights to the names CTA and California Transit Authority. He always loved the name CTA so when he was getting his band together he looked into seeing if he could use the name. |
| 3:51
| Danny contacted a lawyer who told him nobody owned the rights to the names so he got them. |
| 3:57
| Danny was kicked out of Chicago but he still collected royalties checks for 17 years which wasn't bad at all. Every month he'd go to the mailbox and he'd never know what to expect. |
| 3:58
| The only original members of Chicago still left in the band is the horn section. |
| 3:59
| Steve's going to play a new version of I'm a Man from the first Chicago album. Steve was talking to Danny during the break about how groundbreaking Chicago's music was because their songs were all very long and had a lot of different parts to them. |
| 4:00
| Song: I'm a Man, California Transit Authority |
| 4:06
| Well Danny can still play those drums. The dude singing was pretty impressive too. That's Larry Braggs, lead vocalist of Tower of Power. |
| 4:07
| Danny is one of the founders of Chicago, it was probably all his idea right? For about 20 minutes it was. |
| 4:08
| Danny was hanging with Terry Kath and Walt Parazaider when they decided to form the band. Walt was getting his degree in clarinet and was being groomed for second chair in the Chicago Symphony. |
| 4:09
| Walt and Terry were in two bands together at the time. Walt was getting tired of doing live shows and wanted to play in the CSO. |
| 4:10
| Terry got an offer for some gigs in California in 1967. So their band, the Missing Links was disbanding. Their band before that, Jimmy Ford and the Executives was a horn band so they had a taste of that. |
| 4:11
| Danny was sad that their partnership was ending so he approached Walt about forming an elite band with the best guys in the city. |
| 4:12
| They wanted to have every base covered so they got a guy who could sing low and guy who could sing high. They convinced Terry to not go to LA and play guitar in their band. |
| 4:13
| So that was the beginning of The Big Thing which was the original band name. Walt grabbed James Pankow who was still at DePaul. They were also friends with Lee Loughnane who was in a band called Ross and the Majestics. Great band name. |
| 4:14
| They found Robert Lamm on the Southside and had a band meeting where everyone agreed that no one would ever get fired and there would be no BS. They lived by that for the most part. |
| 4:15
| Peter Cetera came along 5 months later after they realized they needed a bass player. His band The Exceptions was also disbanding. |
| 4:16
| Song: 25 or 6 to 4, California Transit Authority |
| 4:20
| Danny loves the name CTA for a band because it connects him to where he's from. Everyone in the band is from California but he won't forget his Chicago roots. He still roots for the Bears and the Cubs and he's a huge White Sox fan. |
| 4:21
| Steve's from California but when you're out there and you say your from Chicago people think it's cool. There's a certain sense of community in Chicago that they don't have out there. |
| 4:29
| Steve feels that was one of his better rock and roll interview. First off Danny was a nice guy and very free-speaking. Steve asked a lot of questions that he really wanted to know the answer to. |
| 4:30
| Danny never specified why he got fired from the band but Steve didn't want to push him on that. |
| 4:31
| Live read: Arby's |
| 4:32
| Buzz wants to know what the little, triangular potato things are. He's already gotten to them and they're really good. |
| 4:33
| They seem to have potato, cheese and maybe some jalapeño in them. Oh hell yeah! |
| 4:34
| In addition, Steve is enjoying a French Dip sandwich. He's got au jus all over his hands. |
| 4:35
| Song: Life Becomes Me, The Nadas |
| 4:41
| On the phone is Gail Fischer from Comcast Sportsnet. She wasn't sure if Steve stayed up for the late Sox game but he did. |
| 4:42
| They showed a lot of perseverance last night. They tied it up in the 8th and the 12th and Contreras looked good out of the bullpen. |
| 4:43
| The Cubs lost and are only 1 game out but it's still maddening. They could be 3 games up on the Brewers. Also Aramis Ramirez flew back to Chicago to have his wrist examined. He's the team RBI leader. |
| 4:44
| The rumors are the Cubs are trying to claim Shannon Stewart off waivers from the A's. Maybe Jason Kendall put in a good word for him. |
| 4:45
| Steve loves the Hawk/Steve Stone match-up. Steve Stone is fantastic! Plus Hawk called Steve the Stone Pony. Steve made up that nickname! |
| 4:46
| Steve thinks Sox fans would embrace Steve Stone because he got pimped by the Cubs. He did play for the White Sox too. |
| 4:47
| Obafemi Ayanbadejo was suspended 4 games by the NFL for violating drug policies. The Bears knew about that when they signed him, he tested positive before that. |
| 4:48
| The violation is related to steroids but it falls under "related substances". So that's probably like human growth hormone. Steve and Buzz both take that, it makes their voices deeper. |
| 4:49
| Denis Savard got a one year contract extension with the Hawks so that's good. It would be nice to have hockey come back in Chicago a little bit. |
| 4:50
| Also John Daly is leading the PGA Championship opening round. Buzz will drink to that! |
| 4:51
| Steve likes John Daly. He used to watch that Daly Planet on the Golf Channel. It featured a lot of John not practicing and other golfers like Vijay Singh telling him he really needs to practice. |
| 4:52
| Today is Thursday as many people already know. Thursday means several things to Steve including Taco Bell Participation Day in which a listener goes to get Taco Bell, calls Steve and then they eat together on the air. |
| 4:53
| Today Steve is having a burrito supreme, double meat, no beans, no sour cream. Someday Steve hopes that is on the Taco Bell menu as the Steve Dahl Burrito. |
| 4:54
| Buzz is looking for a Dr. Pepper with the Taco Bell. Not every Taco Bell has Dr. Pepper. It seems like they want to stress the Pepsi too. Pepsi is also good with Taco Bell. |
| 4:55
| The Dr. Pepper is still left over from whatever David Hochberg brought, along with flowers, to apologize to Steve. That David is a weird guy. |
| 4:56
| Tomorrow's live read for Townstone Financial features a couple named Eric and Kathy. David is insisting it be read at the beach broadcast. Steve's going to do it just like David wants and not make a big deal about it. |
| 4:57
| The other option is for Steve and Buzz to read alternating lines of the live read. They could do that and then not make a big deal about it. |
| 5:00
| Buzz did not know that Stone Pony came from Steve but he's always referred to Steve Stone that way. Hawk even signed off calling him Stone Pony. |
| 5:01
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 5:02
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 5:03
| Another body was pulled out from beneath the wreckage of the collapsed bridge in Minneapolis. That brings the death toll up to 7. |
| 5:04
| President Bush said that the U.S. economy is the envy of the entire world. He said that right before going on vacation. |
| 5:05
| 2 arrests have been made in the execution-style shootings of three college students in New Jersey. It's shaping up to be a random act of drunken violence. When Steve got drunk he never had the desire to shoot anyone gangland style. |
| 5:06
| Utah mine owner Bob Murray expects a communication device to reach the trapped miners sometime tonight. He's still holding his own press conferences, he doesn't care any more. If you were a reporter who's press conference would you want to go to, his or the governments? |
| 5:07
| A Ukrainian has been named the world's tallest living man by the Guinness Book of World Records. The previous record was held by Bao Xishun of China. Steve prefers his world's tallest man to be from Eastern Europe or Russia. Neither of them were as tall as Robert Wadlow, of Illinois, who still holds the record of tallest man. |
| 5:08
| According to the Sun-Times front page today the big story is Brangelina, in town. They're calling it a circus. |
| 5:09
| By covering Brangelina in town the Sun-Times is the one making it into a circus. Buzz also saw in Zwecker's column that Brad and Angelina were staying in the same hotel suite where Jennifer Anniston stayed when she was last here. |
| 5:10
| Buzz really needs to stop reading that paper. He's better off drilling a hole in his head. |
| 5:13
| Steve's still waiting on his burrito. When it gets here he'll talk to his Taco Pal. Steve got that one from a listener who hung up. It's Steve's now, that guy is lost to the ages. That's probably how Steve got Stone Pony too. |
| 5:14
| Song: Net Surfin' U.S.A., Steve Dahl and the Dahlfins |
| 5:16
| That's Steve and Brian Wilson on that song. Some of the internet references are a little dated but it did come out 10 years ago. |
| 5:17
| Steve's very proud of the listeners because they're calling the contest line and not the content line. Buzz noticed that the person answer the contest line is not in the hallway. |
| 5:18
| Steve calls down to promotions. The call screener is two desk over from Adam. Steve's never been in Adam's office, he didn't know it was that big. |
| 5:19
| The office isn't that big but it has enough room for three desks. Adam is in the back then Carolyn and then the intern. So why was the intern forced on Steve and Buzz? |
| 5:20
| Adam thought it would be good to have the intern down where the action was, seeing how they were part of the show. |
| 5:21
| Jill has all the banners packed away for tomorrow's broadcast at Papi Chulo's. They'll be there at 10:00. Steve will be there at 2:00. Adam got Steve and Buzz a boat and an RV if they need to use the bathroom. |
| 5:24
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's time for Steve to talk to his Taco Pal. |
| 5:24
| Caller Mike has not bitten into his burrito, double meat, no beans, no sour cream. He didn't know about the double meat option and he doesn't care for beans. |
| 5:25
| In addition tot he burrito Mike got a Baja Blast. It's a special beverage made just for Taco Bell. |
| 5:26
| We'll give Mike $20 in gift cards from Taco Bell or something. Steve has meat all over his microphone. That happens when you get double meat. |
| 5:32
| Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk. He's doing well, Steve is well and Buzz is super. |
| 5:33
| Is Chef Hans the executive chef as Smith & Wollensky? Steve's been watching a lot of restaurant reality TV shows and people like to call themselves executive chefs. |
| 5:34
| Hans is the executive chef but it's not on his business card. If you have to say you're the executive chef you probably aren't. |
| 5:35
| Hans had AJ Pierzynski in on Monday with some Nike people. Jermaine Dye was also there. The Sox had the day off and were all at a charity golf outing. AJ had a ribeye, some creamed spinach and a nice glass of wine. |
| 5:36
| The other night someone came into the kitchen and told Hans there was a cute girl at the bar who knew Hans. |
| 5:37
| Hans went out there and it wasn't someone he knew. She knew him from the show and had sent in the email last week about the Juicy Lucy inside-out burger. |
| 5:38
| She was there the same night that Steve read the letter so she didn't hear him admonishing her for the letter. |
| 5:39
| The woman happened to be there on her birthday so Hans bought her a drink and got her a cake. Then she sent Hans a note thanking him. There was no return address on the note, that had to hurt. |
| 5:40
| Hans thought she was too young for him. Does he know that Buzz married a 15-year old? |
| 5:41
| Another note Hans has is from Charlie Trotter who wanted to invite Steve to his birthday party on August 18th. Hans now knows that Steve has a gig that night. |
| 5:42
| Steve thought Hans was a fan of his but he's choosing Charlie Trotter over him? Hans will get a tape of the show so he can hear it. |
| 5:43
| Steve would go to Charlie's birthday if he didn't have the show to play. He's in the Escoffier Society now. |
| 5:44
| Hans has some info about the next Escoffier Dinner too, it's in January at the Palmer House. Steve has to be there because there's going to be some fireworks. |
| 5:45
| Now that Steve's in the society he can bring whoever he wants to the dinner. Steve only wants to bring Hans as his date, they make a great couple. |
| 5:52
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:53
| Song: Baseball Summers, Steve Dahl and the Dahlfins |
| 6:00
| Before Buzz does the headlines Steve has some sports knowledge to impart. Hopefully it's knowledge. |
| 6:01
| The Cubs begin a 4 game series in Colorado tonight. The White Sox host Cleveland again tonight. |
| 6:02
| The Bears received some bad news today when the NFL suspended fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo for violating the league's substance abuse policy. |
| 6:03
| As it turns out Ayanbadejo tested positive for something you can get at GNC. That seems completely insane. If you can get it at GNC it shouldn't be a banned substance. |
| 6:04
| Matt Murphy, the fan who caught Barry Bonds' 756th home run says he might not sell the ball. Steve saw some article about the kid saying he doesn't care about the whopping tax bill he might have to pay now that he has the ball. |
| 6:05
| He wouldn't have to pay taxes until he sold the ball though so what's the problem? |
| 6:06
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback Mike Alstott may have played his last NFL game after being placed on injured reserve. Alstott is the Bucs all-time touchdown leader. |
| 6:07
| Alstott held a press conference about his injury where he held back tears. Steve won't make fun of Alstott for crying because he's from Joliet and he'll probably come into town and beat Steve up. |
| 6:08
| Tom Thayer will probably tell Alstott Steve was making fun of him since they're both Joliet boys. Tom wants to beat Steve up but he never would. |
| 6:14
| That's Hawk signing off the Sox game last night, calling Steve Stone the Stone Pony. Buzz has heard that nickname for 25 years but Steve never noticed how many people used it. |
| 6:15
| Tax experts say that Mets fan Matt Murphy will have to pay taxes on the Barry Bonds home run ball. It almost might have to pay capital gains taxes as the ball becomes more valuable. |
| 6:16
| It seems like a good lawyer could get around it. The ball doesn't have any value until it's actually sold. |
| 6:17
| People can say the ball is worth half a million or whatever but no one knows what it's worth until it gets sold. |
| 6:18
| This seems like one of those unfair taxes things but that happens a lot. What if the kid had catcher's remorse and decided to give it away? Would he still have to pay the taxes? |
| 6:19
| The ball could put Murphy into the highest tax bracket where he could be subject to over $200,000 in taxes on a ball worth $600,000. |
| 6:20
| Most people lucky enough to catch a valuable home run ball sell it right away so history is no guide. Mark McGwire's 62nd home run ball was the subject of an embarrassing incident for the IRS. |
| 6:21
| The ball was retrieved by a groundskeeper at Busch Stadium who promptly handed it over to the team. The IRS then said that the groundskeeper would still be subject to taxes on the ball. |
| 6:22
| Caller Mike totally agrees with Steve but on Sportscenter today they said the kid had already turned down an offer of $500,000 from a sports memorabilia firm. |
| 6:23
| It seems like there shouldn't be any taxes until money changes hand but this is the IRS. They've got a war in Iraq to fund. |
| 6:24
| Live read: Racine Boat Show |
| 6:25
| At any moment the world could learn if 5 men trapped in a mine in Utah are alive. Two shafts are being dug to where the men are believed to be trapped. |
| 6:26
| Two bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a Minneapolis bridge today. |
| 6:27
| Cindy Sheehan has announced her candidacy against Representative Nancy Pelosi. Does Sheehan live in the San Francisco area? She must have moved. |
| 6:28
| Police in California are investigating allegations of a sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion. Doesn't that happen all the time there? |
| 6:29
| Playboy.com reported that Paris Hilton, Dave Navarro and Martin Landau were in attendance at the Midsummer Night's Dream party. Is that a party where everyone dresses up like Shakespeare? |
| 6:30
| Steve thought he heard it had something to do with a girl who was bartending at the party or her boyfriend or something. It doesn't seem like the Barbi twins should be speaking on Playboy's behalf though. |
| 6:31
| Steve has a little more on this Playboy party. The incident involved a woman hired to be a server at the party and her ex-boyfriend who was at the party. |
| 6:32
| The woman has a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend and he was escorted from the party by security. |
| 6:33
| So a guy talked to a girl who had a restraining order against him? That doesn't really seem like a sexual assault. |
| 6:34
| If you want to see some sexual assaultin' go in the grotto. That's all consensual in there though. |
| 6:35
| And some unfortunate news from abroad. Which one? |
| 6:36
| This is a story from Croatia, vacation destination of David Hochberg. Authorities had to remove the carcasses of hundreds of sheep that died of starvation on an island off the coast of Croatia. |
| 6:37
| There is no residency requirement to run for Congress so Cindy Sheehan can run against Pelosi. |
| 6:38
| Lindsay Lohan's former bodyguard tells US Weekly that her parents are to blame for their daughters problems. |
| 6:39
| The bodyguard's name...Tony Almeda. Not the same guy from 24 though. |
| 6:40
| And from the front page of the Sun-Times, the media circus surround Brangelina's arrival in Chicago has arrived. |
| 6:41
| They're the ones creating the media circus though! When Buzz saw that he thought it made us look like a cow town. |
| 6:46
| Steve would appreciate if Pete didn't fuel Buzz's Cindy Sheehan fascination. If Steve never heard about her again he'd be fine with that. He has to hear about it twice a week now! |
| 6:47
| So Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in town and it's a media circus and Bill Zwecker knows where they're staying and where to spot them. |
| 6:48
| According to what Steve is looking at Brad Pitt isn't even in Chicago, he's in L.A. on jury duty. Was that in the Sun-Times? |
| 6:49
| Buzz has to confess he didn't read all the articles about Brangelina. All he needs is a good headline! Bill Zwecker really lays it out for readers in a special Brangelina section. |
| 6:50
| The fact that we, everyone, as adult human beings, call them Brangelina is troubling. Only days after Jennifer Anniston checked out of the Peninsula Hotel Brad and Angelina checked in. |
| 6:51
| Steve doesn't really want to become part of this. It all seems extremely stupid. Celebrities choose the Peninsula for the high level of service and the way they cater to celebrities. |
| 6:52
| According to Zwecker there is a special car entrance that takes people into an underground garage that is shut off with a giant metal door to keep paparazzi (like Bill Zwecker) out. |
| 6:53
| Zwecker mentions that Brangelina will probably eat most of their meals in Angelina Jolie's trailer on the set of Wanted. If they do choose to eat out it will most likely be at a restaurant with a private dining room. Those restaurants include Bistrot Zinc and Phil Stefani's. |
| 6:54
| Why would they go to those places? Or is that just Bill putting in a plug for places he knows he can eat for free. |
| 6:55
| Next week Gwyneth Paltrow will be at Macy's to promote her new perfume. No wonder Brad Pitt's in LA. |
| 6:58
| We look like hicks when something like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in town make it to he front page of the paper. We're not hicks though, there are a lot of important things going on here. |
| 6:59
| But you get a couple of loopy columnists like Zwecker and Michael Sneed and they're all over this. How does it end up on the front page. |
| 7:00
| Of course Steve and Buzz have already made plans to hang out in front of the Peninsula dressed as bellmen like in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. |
| 7:01
| Steve has no doubt that Brendan will be covering the entire Brangelina thing extensively. |
