The Steve Dahl Show on 104.3 JACK FM

2008 Logs

April 2008

March 2008

February 2008

2007 Logs

You never know what's going to be on Steve's mind until you read his latest blog entry.

See how the other half lives. Blast off to the fertile matriarchy of Janet's Planet.

See what Steve and the gang are up to, on and off the air by perusing our extensive and searchable Photo Galleries.


		Monday, September 10 , 2007



2:00	Steve's going to be at The Admiral tonight for their Monday Night Football party. Stan heard something in the promo about a nude punting competition.
2:01	It's not punting, that's too dangerous of a word. It's a field goal kicking contest. Stan is wondering if the women will be posing as goal posts.
2:02	Why does Stan have to ruin everything? Steve assumes it's naked girls kicking footballs because they talk about having instant replay.
2:03	If they have instant replay why would it be guys kicking field goals? They're not going to show instant replays of that.
2:04	This seems like a concept that even Stan can't ruin but he's doing his best to over-analyze. Stan just wants people to be prepared for what they're going to see.
2:05	Steve assumes there's nothing in the competition that you can't already see at The Admiral but it should still be fun.
2:06	Stan's welcome to come tonight though, he can bring out a tape measure and dress as a referee to make sure everything is running smoothly.
2:07	The Admiral is pretty close to Stan's house, it's right on Lawrence. And he lives on Lawrence since that's his last name.
2:08	The Admiral is near Lawrence and Pulaski. There are certain stretches of Pulaski that feature the brown "Honorary Street Name" sign above the normal sign but they both say Pulaski.
2:09	It seems like a waste of money to double up on the signs like that but it's probably some alderman trying to suck up to Polish voters. That sort of stuff goes on all over the city since it only takes about 300 votes to get elected.
2:10	Stan's neighborhood was canvassed over the weekend by people trying to get signatures for petitions. There was one petition Stan didn't want to sign and he had to explain that too the person. That probably only took about 2 hours right. The guy probably quit the campaign after Stan was done.
2:11	Stan and Terry are welcome to come out tonight but Steve is suspect of Stan's guy code, especially after what he wrote in his 50th birthday book.
2:19	Pete is welcome to stop by The Admiral tonight if he's in position to do so. Pete's been debating it since Steve first mentioned it last week. Steve sort of figured he wouldn't come by.
2:20	Steve figured Pete was still thinking about it since he played the fake boobs drop. Steve doesn't like fake boobs. Any boob is a good boob to Pete but if he had a preference he'd go with real.
2:21	Steve really just doesn't like the giant boobs that look like they're going to explode.
2:22	By the way, Buzz is not here today because he's in the hospital. Steve is not sure what's happening though because the Kilman's run a very loose household. Aimee didn't even know what was happening. That place is a huge informational hole and it's surrounding our newsman.
2:23	Steve doesn't have any other information except that Buzz isn't here today. He might be in the hospital passing his kidney stone or he might have been home.
2:24	Steve's pretty sure he's at the hospital having some sort of procedure done to break up the stones and make them easier to pass. Aimee was calling it an operation but Steve doesn't think Buzz is being cut open.
2:25	And from Buzz's standpoint, why miss out on two perfectly good weekends when you can do this during the week.
2:26	It also seemed like they were setting it up for Buzz to be out tomorrow too. There was a very vague 48 hour timetable which in Steve's could have started on Friday.
2:27	Steve didn't want to tell Buzz this on Friday but his pain pills aren't what he thinks they are. Steve looked at the bottle, it's not 1000 mg of Vicodin.
2:28	Caller Nick had kidney stones and they didn't pass. Is Brendan sure Steve wants to talk to this guy instead of a nurse? The call starts off "fine now", does Steve want to hear his personal sob story. Steve's got the king of the goldbrickers and he's going to be out for 3 weeks.
2:29	Nick went in for an operation to get his kidney stones out. They knocked him out which is why they call it an operation. Is that why? They go in through your willy and break the stones up, then put in a catheter. After a week they take the catheter out.
2:30	So what are we looking at for Buzz being gone, 2 weeks? If you're not doing any heavy labor it should be only a couple of days. Buzz thinks what he does is heavy labor though. He has to go all the way down to the coffee machine, that's like 30 feet!
2:31	Caller Darlene is a nurse and she's a little nervous. Nick's description of the procedure was pretty accurate but he was knocked out.
2:32	Steve's talking medical right now which is fine because he's a doctor. He's licensed to practice solely in Costa Rica where he has a burgeoning gynecological practice that's limited to hot Costa Rican women and their daughters. It's also a religion so they can't touch him.
2:33	Depending on where the stones are they use an instrument to break them up. An instrument, like a harmonica? Wouldn't it be funny if they use Buzz's own harmonica on him?
2:34	Steve was going to tell Pete that now that the opening tapes have been canceled it doesn't mean he should stop collecting tapes. Then he can replay them throughout the show, cutting down on the Scrubs and Gilmore Girls drops.
2:35	Steve felt there were a lot of Scrubs drops last week in the wake of the canceling of the tapes. Pete said he was fine with it though. Steve would like to hear some drops from Deadwood where Swearengen passes the kidney stone.
2:36	That's what Steve would do if he had a stone. He wouldn't be in some namby-pamby hospital, you'd hear him pass it on the air, screaming and all. Then when it came out you'd hear the clink as it dropped into a spittoon.
2:37	Steve just needed to tell Pete that before he forgot. He takes notes about all of this stuff but by 4:00 his notepad is covered in doodles and he can't even read what it says. It is an interesting look into Steve's head though.
2:38	After they break the stone up with a laser they put a stint in which has to come out in a week. Why don't they make stints that dissolve? Steve's going to invent that.
2:45	Caller Joe has passed about 40 kidney stones. 40! What's the deal with that? He has renal tubular acidosis. He had a stone of the size of a golf ball and they used the ultra sound in bath water to break it up.
2:46	When the golf ball-sized stone came out did Joe have it made into a nice pinky ring? That's probably a great conversation starter.
2:47	When they put you in the bath tub are you nude? All of those nurses standing around would be a lot of pressure for Steve.
2:48	40 kidney stones! That's a lot but he does have renal tubular acidosis. Joe has about 8 stones left to pass.
2:49	Does he have to get naked in the tub with the nurses? Does one of the nurses get in the tub with you?
2:50	On Friday up and Bandito Barney's Steve and Buzz did the live show. Every show is live usually but this one was in front of an audience.
2:51	It's a little harder to do a show in front of an audience because you realize not everything you say is scintillating. In Steve's mind people listen to the show for 5 hours without talking or anything.
2:52	At one point on Friday Steve's guitar was brought out to him from his RV. Steve was hoping to avoid having to play anything but then there it was right behind him. So he and Buzz played the Kidney Stone Blues which Steve thought turned out pretty good.
2:53	When Steve hears it back he probably won't think it turned out good but he'll just turn it down and let everyone else enjoy it. Steve is on guitar and vocals, obviously. Buzz played harmonica and it was sort of surprising that he didn't stop paying when Steve was singing. Is that what the blues guys do?
2:54	Maybe Steve was just noticing it more becuase he was nervous about playing the song. Pete thought it sounded good. If you're Steve you focus on the stuff that irritates you in an attempt to get yourself to stop doing it. It's very self-destructive. Steve has his own self-destructive urges but he tries to keep it under wraps.
3:00	One of the most interesting things Pete does to Steve is making him think one of his ideas isn't his own.
3:01	Steve's never heard that drop from Family Guy with Muddy Waters passing a kidney stone. Now it makes Steve think that Kidney Stone Blues wasn't his idea.
3:02	Steve's never seen that episode but now it seems like he's ripping off Family Guy. He does like the show though.
3:03	Buzz had to leave the show on Tuesday and on Thursday Steve wrote Kidney Stone Blues for his blog.
3:04	Song: Kidney Stone Blues, Steve and Buzz
3:07	Steve didn't know how to end that song but he didn't get any help from Buzz on it.
3:08	Does Pete remember when Buzz yelled at him for mixing him out of some blues jam? You almost have to do that because Buzz plays through the entire song like a freight train. Buzz was playing a solo from the get-go.
3:09	Buzz was jamming with some old guy and he told Pete "don't worry about me" so Pete didn't. Buzz was mad about it for an entire weekend.
3:10	Pete still feels bad about it because he wants to make Buzz comfortable. He doesn't care about Steve though because he doesn't withhold affection.
3:11	Pete loved the song and he thought the audience loved it too. They were all drunk though. You know who was really drunk, Ed Silha.
3:12	Steve couldn't really tell if Ed was drunk but he was doing weird things like throwing a rock at Stephanie. He wanted to get her attention so that she could tell the band how much he drinks. Doesn't that seem like something you do when you're drunk?
3:13	Ed was showing off for a bunch of 22-year olds in the band and a couple of cute waitresses, one of whom had her own name tattooed on her neck.
3:16	On the phone is Chuck Garfein with Comcast Sportsnet. He's very concerned about Buzz's kidney stone but it's not life-threatening. Buzz is 80 so maybe everything is life-threatening.
3:17	When Chuck was in high school one of his classmates had a kidney stone. That's so tragic. Things seemed so peaceful at Homewood-Flossmoor but maybe they weren't.
3:18	A few weeks ago Chuck was reminiscing about his childhood and Steve made a Wonder Years reference. Then the next day he was at Wrigley covering the game and Fred Savage threw out the first pitch.
3:19	Chuck's reminiscing again, Steve might have to reference Wonder Years here.
3:20	OK a few serious things, Chuck should probably report them since it's his job. Before that though, all 5 defendants in the Family Secrets trial were found guilty on all charges. That's some good lawyering there.
3:21	The bad news from Halas Hall is that Mike Brown and Dusty Dvoracek both suffered season-ending injuries yesterday. That's a punch in the stomach.
3:22	Chuck almost feels that Mike Brown's heart is almost too big for his body. OK Jerry Lewis. Did Chuck spend more time in the theater department than on the baseball field?
3:23	Steve likes Mike Brown a lot and he felt bad for him yesterday but he also got the feeling that his body can't make it in the NFL. Was that what Chuck was trying to say?
3:24	There are some guys in the NFL who you see twist their ankle or leg really badly and you think they're done for the year then they get up and run off the field.
3:25	It seems like everyone on the team really likes Mike Brown and he seems like he's a great leader. On the field he's really good at telling other players what they need to do.
3:26	They could really use Chris Harris now but they traded him to Carolina. He made 9 tackles yesterday. Of course you can't look back.
3:27	Steve felt really bad for Brown after the game yesterday because he had to lie to the press about what was really going on.
3:28	Caller Mark wanted to point out that the play Brown was hurt on should have been a penalty. The guy on the Chargers clothes lined Brown and now he's out for the season.
3:29	Even if a penalty gets called Brown still gets hurt so it doesn't really matter. The Bears could have won that game. Chuck really thought they were going to after the first half.
3:30	The Bears should beat the Chiefs next week. Although that's how you end up losing. The way the Bears lost this week though, they won't be cocky going into the first home game.
3:31	Steve feels that Cedric Benson should have played more in the pre-season. They might want to teach those guys how to hold on to the ball better.
3:32	Steve's also done being a fan of Adrian Peterson until he cuts his hair. He looks too much like Whoopi Goldberg. Steve was defending him yesterday right before he dropped that ball. Then he was mocked by his boys.
3:33	The Bears have another 3:15 game this Sunday. That's how they do it with the Super Bowl winners because they know it'll be a bigger draw.
3:34	Steve doesn't like the noon games because then the day is over at 3:00. Although it's bad when the game ends at 6:00 and all this bad stuff has happened.
3:35	After the Bears game Steve watched all of Comcast's coverage. Steve watched a lot of football yesterday because he has the DirectTV Red Zone package.
3:36	Steve's also liking the college football too. That Notre Dame thing is pretty sweet, watching that fat jerk stomp around the sidelines.
3:37	The Cubs are playing right now, they have a 6-1 lead over the Cardinals. This is a make-up game. Chuck feels the Cardinals have reached a dead-end.
3:38	Steve feels the whole Rick Ankiel thing really killed their momentum. Was the only one who thought that a pitcher suddenly turned home run hitter was on something.
3:39	It doesn't seem like the Brewers are going to go away either, they don't play well on the road but they won 2 of 3 in Cincy.
3:40	The White Sox decided to win 2 of 3 against the Twins too. Steve's just waiting for Thome to hit his 500th home run.
3:41	Also, the New England Patriots could be in big trouble. They blew out the Jets yesterday but the NFL has confiscated a video tape that was being shot by a Patriots employee, relaying the Jets defensive signals to New England coaches.
3:42	Steve wants to know why the QB's helmet has a green dot on it. It's for the wireless device but the only guy who has that in his helmet is the QB. Plus everyone's helmet has a number on it.
3:43	Chuck thinks that last year someone other than a QB had the communicator in his helmet. It's very distracting though.
3:47	Joining Steve is Phil Rosenthal. He hasn't been in here since we got the new studio. Nothing personal though.
3:48	When Phil got his new job with the Tribune he didn't want anyone to think there was any impropriety going on in terms of favoring this show or this station.
3:49	Now that Steve and Phil are colleagues at the Tribune he can come on the show from time-to-time.
3:50	Steve has a little more information about the green dot. Steve is surprised how little Chuck knows. He only wants to talk about his childhood.
3:51	The green dot is supposed to help referees keep track of who is wearing the in-helmet communication device.
3:52	It's supposed to prevent teams from putting two players on the field who are wearing the device. As if teams wouldn't be able to get more than one of those green dots at Office Depot and put it on a different helmet.
3:53	It's fairly routine for a team to put two QBs on the field, as the Falcons did last year with Vick and Matt Schaub. No chance of having that this year.
3:54	All they do is call plays on those things, what's the big deal if two guys are wearing them? The Bears might want to use it to warn Rex Grossman that someone's coming from his blind side.
3:55	The dots are very distracting when you're watching the game in HD. It looks very high school. Phil thinks those new patches denoting who is a captain looks like something from high school.
3:56	Caller Dave just went out and bought his official NFL Avery green dot and he's putting them on everything.
4:00	That Jim Miller sure was funny yesterday on the Comcast post-game. Instead of just apologizing for his phone ringing he had to be funny about it. "Mama's calling" what does that mean?
4:01	They should have thrown Miller off the show, that's what Steve would have done. And what's with that goatee? Mancow called, he wants his goatee back.
4:02	Who's idea was it to bring Miller in anyway? It doesn't seem like he even lives here any more because he said "Chicago was always very good to me."
4:03	Live read: Gierczyk Properties
4:04	Who were the first 10 choices when you end up with Jim Miller? He doesn't bring back any good memories for Steve. You're better off going with an '85 Bear, even if he's drunk and fat. A few even come to mind.
4:05	Miller replaces the Colonel, they must have been trying to racially balance the line-up. Now they have two white guys and two black guys. Although Marv Levy doesn't really even count as a white guy.
4:06	Steve couldn't help focusing on Pat Boyle's eyebrows yesterday, they're like Jack-o-Lanterns. Phil can't believe Steve stuck with the entire game and then the post-game.
4:07	Steve didn't really know what else to watch but it helps to have that Red Zone package. Steve saw all the highlights anyway in real time so he doesn't need to see any more.
4:08	Billy Jack always does a good job post-game and it must be tough after a loss. They had him set up in a hallway in between the locker room and the bus. That's probably where you have to be to get anyone to talk to you.
4:09	They didn't even do Jerry's GQ yesterday, they just gave it to Jim Miller who was dressed like a pimp.
4:10	It was good yesterday to watch Comcast because they don't show any highlights. Steve didn't want to see all that again. Even if they win you get burned out on the highlights by Monday.
4:11	Steve doesn't need to see highlights of the other games because he has the Red Zone package, which costs about $5,000. DirectTV has this scam going where you have to pay an extra $100, in addition to the price of the NFL package, to get HD. Plus Steve's not there for half the games because he's at the Bears game.
4:12	If you have HD though, you want to see every game in HD. One thing that drives Phil nuts, now that he has HD is that some highlights aren't in HD.
4:13	Phil's a Bears fan too of course, he's got season tickets. Yesterday's loss isn't worrying Phil too much. Clearly their offense isn't great but the defense did a great job.
4:14	The Chargers probably should have been in the Super Bowl last year where the Bears would have lost to them anyway. The hardest thing to take is that everyone else in the NFC North won their games.
4:15	Hopefully someone can light a fire under Cedric Benson though. Phil's not sold on him. Is there anyway to get Thomas Jones back? Not even because he was good but Steve's going to miss his guns.
4:16	Steve would like to see both Benson and Adrian Peterson have their heads shaved. Peterson looks like a good-looking Whoopi Goldberg. Steve doesn't need to be thinking that if he had to choose between doing Whoopi or doing Peterson, he'd just Peterson.
4:17	Adrian Peterson is pretty ripped too which makes the Whoopi Goldberg comparison all the more troubling. Plus he wears something in his hair that women wear to keep it back. He looks like he's a bridesmaid in a wedding in the 60s.
4:18	Live read: Balance for Life
4:19	Phil Rosenthal, media columnist for the Tribune, is here. Steve's the vice columnist, they're colleagues. That has to bum Phil out.
4:20	Phil actually wishes Steve's column was in the paper more. Is that because it makes him look better?
4:21	All the old ladies in Steve's neighborhood love him because he's in the Tribune. Something similar happened to Phil. All of his parents friends thought he'd just come back to town when he started writing for the Trib.
4:22	They're working on bringing the funny to the Tribune, there's isn't a lot of it now. Steve's working on something right now but he can't talk about it.
4:23	Steve and Phil will both be at the Bears game on Sunday. That's a game they have to win. Everyone has seen Hard Knocks so everyone knows what they're doing.
4:24	In the last episode one of the players ran through the locker room naked. That's what you have HBO for.
4:25	Caller Tom is wondering if Studio 60 and What About Brian are coming back. Also do the network ratings include DVR viewings? The answers to Tom's questions are no, no and yes.
4:26	Phil didn't like What About Brian but he kept watching Studio 60 out of a perverse curiosity.
4:27	Networks don't factor in downloads for advertisers. There is online advertising but that's a totally different area.
4:28	There's a guy on hold and Steve heard Brendan admonishing him in the hall. He was telling him what he could and couldn't say and that's making Steve very nervous.
4:29	The question is about the HBO show Tell Me You Love Me. Phil doesn't know the question but he thinks the answer is "it's a prosthetic".
4:30	Caller Bill did have that question. There were some very raw sex scenes in that show, even for HBO. Phil's pretty sure they were using prosthetics.
4:31	What does it matter if it's real or fake anyway? Bill wants to know where he's seen that one blond woman who's trying to having.
4:32	Maybe Steve could just give Bill his email address? Brendan should have just hung up on that guy because sooner or later he would have said something bad.
4:33	Caller Sue is wondering if The Shield is coming back and if it's the last year. It is coming back and it seems like this year is the last season. Sue loves The Shield and Rescue Me but she only just started watching Rescue Me on a friend's recommendation.
4:34	Steve's been recommending Rescue Me for three years and she listens to her friend now?
4:35	Phil has seen most of the new shows for the upcoming season but there's nothing that really stands out. He does like The Reaper which is going to be on The CW.
4:36	The show is about a geeky kid who works at a Circuit City-type store and his parents just sold his soul to the devil. So now he has to work for the devil and reclaim escaped souls. There's a similar show on NBC called Chuck.
4:37	Phil has seen a few sitcom pilots that were good but he can't tell for sure if the rest of the show will work. He liked Back to You with Kelsey Grammar and Patricia Heaton. It's the funniest show from 1978 but who knows if they'll be able to keep the level of humor up.
4:38	There's a show on ABC called Carpoolers about 4 guys who carpool to work that was OK. The thing about pilots is you can do a great one but keeping up the level of humor is hard.
4:39	There's also a show on ABC called Sam Who? about a girl with amnesia who's trying to figure out who she was. Turns out she wasn't a very pleasant person.
4:40	There's also a show on ABC called Pushing Daisies about a guy who can touch someone and bring them back from the dead. If he doesn't touch them within a minute someone else dies. If he touches the person again they die.
4:41	The Geico caveman show is really bad. It's every dumb racial joke you can think of but about cavemen.
4:42	It was good to have Phil in. He's welcome to come in whenever he wants but Steve doesn't want any impropriety. He is expecting a positive column about him in tomorrow's paper though.
4:45	Tom Thayer's calling in at 5:00 to talk about the Bears. Buzz is out today, having his kidney stone taken care of. Or at least that's what Steve thinks.
4:46	They run a very loose operation out at the Kilman house. Aimee didn't seem to know what was happening nor did she care, at least in terms of knowing all the details. It was almost like Buzz was on a business trip.
4:47	Steve shall now do the headlines as Buzz, interrupting as himself as he sees fit.
4:48	Should Steve read the lead summary? Buzz doesn't do that but it has a nice feel. Maybe some teletype too.
4:49	One of the stories coming up is Peruvian police trying to extradite a Pennsylvania man suspected of murdering his internet wife and stuffing her in a suitcase. That has a Pete Zimmerman feel to it. He's definitely killed before.
4:50	General David Petraeus envisions reducing troop numbers in Iraq to pre-surge levels by next summer. Petraeus insists that he wrote his report without undue influence from the White House or Pentagon. It definitely wasn't Bush influencing him becuase it doesn't seem like he knows what's going on.
4:51	Thousands are expected to visit Ground Zero tomorrow to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The ceremony will be led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and there will be four moments of silence to mark when the planes hit and when the towers collapsed. Isn't 1 moment of silence enough? Do they still read the names?
4:52	There's really not a lot of Steve to interrupt and make fun of here. It's making things very difficult.
4:53	Senator Larry Craig has filed a petition to withdraw his guilty plea from the alleged sex solicitation case. Craig says he was nervous about threats that the Washington Post would report he was gay. So he's going to plead guilty so that doesn't happen?
4:54	Steve still doesn't think that makes you gay though, just hard up or a pervert. What would you call Steve when he lingers just a little too long at the trough urinals at Wrigley?
4:55	A Pennsylvania man is suspected of murdering his internet bride and disposing of her body in a suitcase. Peruvian police are trying to extradite the man and question him in the murder. That's a honeymoon gone wrong.
4:56	Finally, Apple announced they sold their 1 millionth iPhone, just days after they lowered the price.
5:01	It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday, let's say hi to Carlos at the Taco Bell in Countryside. That's Steve's Taco Bell! He moved to the area just for that Taco Bell.
5:02	Steve's having the Cheesy Beefy Melt. They're selling very well so far. Steve saw the commercials over the weekend where people were eating them and had long strings of cheese coming from their mouth.
5:03	Maybe Steve will see Carlos tonight, he'll be out late tonight and might need a taco or something.
5:09	Steve doesn't exactly remember what was said on Friday when Jeff was on. He's pretty sure he didn't say anything bad about Tom.
5:10	Steve saw Tom leaving the stadium last night behind Billy Jack. He was going to say hi but they had to catch the bus.
5:11	The trip home was miserable. They sat on the bus for way longer than they normally do. The plane they were supposed to fly home on hit a bird and it made a huge dent.
5:12	They sat on the plane for 5 hours before they finally got a new one which had to stop in LA and drop off passengers and then come to San Diego.
5:13	Rather than getting back at 12:45 this morning the team got back at 5:45 this morning. That's a long day with nothing good happening.
5:14	Tom doesn't think yesterday was as bad as it seems. A lot of NFL teams make the most improvement from week 1 to week 2 or week 2 to week 3. It's also hard to get anything done offensively in such a hostile road environment.
5:15	It's not like you were watching a bad team yesterday not doing their best. And Tom will take that defensive effort any day.
5:16	The Bears do need to step it up next week though. It'll help to get more time of possession on the offense.
5:17	Tom feels really bad for Mike Brown because he's a good guy. And the Bears fans are going to miss him too.
5:18	For some reason Steve was very comforted when he saw that Mike Brown's mom was there with him.
5:19	Mike Brown is the kind of guy who really gets the team riled up in the locker room so the Bears will need someone else to step it up.
5:20	Tom had a bad week with Notre Dame losing. That wasn't as much of a surprise because they lost a lot of good players.
5:21	The good news is that Joliet Catholic won. 56-14 is a resounding victory, that's what happens when you run the ball successfully.
5:22	And what are the Bears going to do about their running game? Do they just keep doing it and working on the timing?
5:23	It'll definitely help on Sunday when the Bears can use that snap count at home. And how about Tommie Harris?
5:24	There's an optical illusion created when you see a close-up of the snap. The center for the Chargers went lateral with the snap but Tommie's hand came up as soon as it was snapped.
5:25	Steve sort of felt like the Bears could have won at any time yesterday up until the ball hit Brandon McGowan.
5:26	There's a story coming out of San Diego that the punt hit the camera guide wire before it hit McGowan. But as a veteran special teams guy McGowan should know where the punter is trying to kick the ball. It was a keep away from Hester but it'll never happen to McGowan again.
5:27	Tom feels this is going to be a good learning experience for the Bears. This was one of the games Tom thought they'd lose. Had they been in Chicago or at a neutral site the Bears would have.
5:28	Steve has heard people complain about this and maybe it wouldn't have made a difference but where does the NFL get off scheduling the defending NFC champs in a road game on the other side of the country for their first game?
5:29	Tom didn't mind going out to San Diego because he got some surfing in.
5:30	Tom's looking forward to this Sunday's game because he thinks we'll get better results. And he wants to see the defense play how they did last week.
5:31	The Bears signed Anthony Adams in the off-season and he's a good defensive linemen in his own right so he should take over for Dusty Dvoracek.
5:32	Danieal Manning is probably going to end up replacing Mike Brown but they also have Brandon McGowan.
5:33	Steve saw a little too much of McGowan yesterday, it seemed like he didn't have a great game. He missed his assignment on that first reception for Antonio Gates.
5:34	From watching that Hard Knocks show on HBO Steve sort of feels like he knows what to expect from the Chiefs.
5:35	The Chiefs have former Bear Alfonso Boone as well as Donny Edwards, who spent the last 7 seasons with the Chargers. So he'll be calling up his friends to get any information he can.
5:36	Sunday is going to be interesting. Tom just hopes that the Bears fans show up for the game.
5:40	Buzz is out having his kidney stones removed, he's just being wheeled in now. He's been in the hospital since yesterday, shouldn't he have been at the top of the rotation?
5:41	There was a 3 day and a 2 day weekend in which Buzz could have passed the stone but instead he waited until the week to start.
5:42	Live read: The Admiral
5:43	Tom is welcome to come up to The Admiral for the big Monday Night Football party. He can ride his bike up if he wants. Free food!
5:44	Yesterday Tom was talking about fatigue injuries and he didn't want to see any. That's the beauty of having a rotating defensive line.
5:45	That wasn't what caused Dvoracek's injury though. It was on special teams and he was trying to make a block.
5:46	A lot of bad stuff happens on those kickoff returns. That guy got paralyzed yesterday on a kickoff.
5:47	Dusty was part of the wedge on the return team and that's where Tom was for all of his career.
5:48	Yesterday on the opening kick-off Israel Idonije hit Darren Sproles so hard that he had to leave the game with a concussion.
5:49	Steve just hung up on Tom when he was trying to take this first call so we'll have to get him back.
5:50	Caller Paul wanted to recommend cranberry juice for Buzz. Buzz won't heed any advice.
5:51	Paul has two questions. First he's wondering if Devin Hester is too small to play offense. Second, was the Mike Brown injury a cheap shot?
5:52	Tom doesn't think Hester is too small. The Mike Brown hit didn't seem like a cheap shot, but there were a few other cheap shots in the game.
5:53	Even if it was a cheap shot it still doesn't change anything. Brown gets hurt.
5:54	Caller Dennis loves listening to Tom and Jeff on WBBM and on Steve's show. They were synced up really well yesterday. WBBM has digital cable now so it was very close.
5:55	Dennis has a question about Rex Grossman. Everyone bellyaches about him but is he the Bears QB?
5:56	Tom thinks that this week will be a better chance to evaluate Grossman, at home with the home crowd. There are some things he needs to improve on. If he's going to roll out of the pocket he needs to make an accurate throw to a receiver.
5:57	Tom does think Rex is capable of improving just based on the amount of work he puts into preparing for the games.
5:58	Who missed their assignment when Rex got sacked on his second snap? Steve thought it looked like Benson.
5:59	It all depends on if the linebacker was misidentified. If they pointed to the wrong linebacker then Cedric Benson was blocking who he thought he was supposed to block.
6:00	Caller Ed has a question about that camera above the field. He saw Rex flinching at least once from the camera's shadow. It was throwing a big shadow on the field.
6:01	Tom was wondering what would happen if a ball hit the camera or the wires but he didn't think it would be possible. Then it happened twice.
6:02	It seems like that camera would be really distracting. If you're on the field it seems like you'd want to forget that you're on TV.
6:10	A fifteen yard penalty or throwing the Chargers player out of the game doesn't bring Mike Brown's knee back.
6:11	Live read: Balance for Life
6:12	Steve's back on Balance for Life after a rough day yesterday. It was opening day for football and Steve was also at the Sox game on Saturday.
6:13	Steve's trying to get his money's worth out of the chef's table at The Cell, where he ran into a surly meat carver yesterday. By the end of the week all the damage Steve did over the weekend will be erased.
6:14	Live read: Townstone Financial
6:15	We've got the news coming up with Mark Czerniec but first Steve has some info about the next Dahlfins show.
6:16	This is the second to last show and it's September 29th at the House of Blues Back Porch stage. We'll start giving away tickets tomorrow.
6:22	Buzz is having his kidney stone removed in a hospital so Mark is filling in for him. Things are a little cooler up in Racine but it was a delightful weekend. Steve has a lot of listener photos sent in by listeners that he'll be showing later.
6:23	Mark and Amie had their great niece over for the weekend. Is she really great? She's the daughter of their nephew. Mark doesn't really understand all that stuff, he just repeats what Amie says.
6:24	Mark was very exhausted from the weekend. That's what it's like when you have kids everyday for 18 years.
6:25	Actually it goes beyond the 18 years usually. Yesterday Steve was being criticized by Mike and Matt for his eating habits. And that was after Steve had a complete TV malfunction on Saturday.
6:26	Steve wanted to make sure that the TV was working when the boys came over and then he's criticized.
6:27	Plus Mike Dahl gets really crazy when he's watching a football game. He had his girlfriend over too which is not a good side to show her. On every play Mike is yelling "get him, get him, get him!" which is usually the point of every play in a game.
6:28	Mike and Matt have also developed the habit of yelling "BALL!" every time there's a fumble. Tom Thayer does that too, but he's calling a game on the radio, for people who can't see the action.
6:29	Mike has also developed this really loud clap which Steve can't even replicate. Mark should just feel lucky that he only had a kid for the weekend.
6:30	You'd think that Mike and Matt would see everything they had and not criticize Steve for the way he eats. They should be feeding him with a spoon.
6:31	News with Mark
6:32	The top U.S. General in Iraq recommended cutting troops by 30,000 by next August. During a hearing in front of Congress today that was repeatedly interrupted by protestors, including Cindy Sheehan, General David Petraeus insisted the remarks were his own.
6:33	Mark, like Buzz, is totally fascinated by Cindy Sheehan. Mark actually threw that in the story for Buzz. Buzz knows more about Cindy Sheehan than she does.
6:34	Osama bin Laden will be appearing for the second time in a week in a new video. Is that the Just for Men ad?
6:35	Bin Laden will be presenting the last will and testament of one of the 9/11 hijackers. What was in the will, his mud hut and his flight school certificate?
6:36	David Letterman finally appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show which was taped in Madison Square Garden. Oprah got him to open up about his home in Montana and the building dedicated to him at Ball State.
6:35	Steve doesn't understand why Oprah had to go all the way to New York to film the season premiere. It's sort of an insult to Chicago.
6:36	Mary Winkler is schedule to appear on Wednesday's show but the her husband's parents are attempting to prevent her from doing that.
6:37	In non-Oprah news, all 5 defendants in the Family Secrets trial in Chicago were found guilty on all counts.
6:38	The CTA's doomsday scenario could be enacted next week without funding from the state. The scenario includes employee layoffs, bus route cancellations and fare hikes.
6:39	Steve doesn't ride the bus or the train. He's fortunate enough to have a job where he can drive to work. That being said, driving to work, with the gas prices and parking and insurance, is really expensive.
6:40	Even if they're raising fares by $1 it's still way cheaper than driving to work. Steve gets that it's a lot of money if you're making minimum wage though.
6:41	It just seems like someone should try to point out the positive aspects of public transit. Consider what it does, it's not that expensive.
6:42	Mark feels the same way about the post office. It's amazing what they can do for the cost of a stamp. And then people complain when it goes up 2¢. Steve wouldn't even pick that up if he dropped it on the ground.
6:46	So Buzz is having his kidney stones zapped or something. The information does not flow very freely from the Kilman household. It's like the White House, they've got an embargo.
6:47	What Steve needs to do is develop a source on the inside. Piper would probably tell him but he can't get past Aimee.
6:48	Aimee did call in around 6:00 to let everyone know Buzz was being wheeled in to have his stones zapped. That's a 3 hour procedure and with the catheter Steve can't imagine Buzz being back tomorrow.
6:49	Steve would definitely take the day off after being catheterized, while fully enjoying the convenience of having a catheter.
6:50	The jury in the Phil Spector murder trial has begun deliberations.
6:51	Astronaut Buzz Aldrin said that former astronaut Lisa Nowak should be admired for confronting a romantic rival. She should also be admired for driving across the country without stopping to refill gas or use the bathroom. Is Buzz hoping she'll give him a phone call?
6:52	Britney Spears is being criticized for her performance at last night's MTV Video Music Awards. Steve saw that last night and on the one hand he wanted to take her to a room and have sex with her since she seemed very malleable.
6:53	On the other hand Steve felt bad for her because he knew people would say all sorts of bad things about her today.
6:54	In other news Kid Rock has been cited by Las Vegas police for fighting with Tommy Lee at the award show. As Steve said in his blog they looked like a couple of high school girls fighting.
6:55	They both look ridiculous because of the way they dress too. The look like Cosby kids.
6:59	OK, that's pretty much it for Steve for today. We're joining the first Monday Night Football game already in progress because they're paying to be on it.
7:00	It makes Steve feel so major market when he just fades up an in-progress football game. Now Steve has to decide if he should play his theme and get the game started 3 minutes later or if he should just go to it.
7:01	The game's not even on for Steve do go to it so he can't make that decision. Steve will just go to the game.