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| 2:00
| Steve is not talking to Stan and Terry until Buzz gets here. He's supposed to be here for this. |
| 2:01
| Terry wanted to ask Steve a question. He can go ahead but he won't answer it. God knows where Buzz is though. |
| 2:02
| Terry was at the Sox game yesterday but he didn't see Steve. Steve didn't have tickets yesterday but he was there on Saturday and frankly a little irritated that it didn't happen. |
| 2:03
| Steve can see why Thome was having a hard time hitting 500 on Saturday though. There's a guy right near the on-deck circle with a bag of special balls with MLB holograms on them. |
| 2:04
| Every time Thome came up to the plate the guy gave 4 of the special balls to the ump. Plus every time Thome was up to bat the entire crowd stood up. It seems like they shouldn't stand up until he hits it. |
| 2:05
| Was Strueben the ball boy yesterday? He's the best ball boy on the Sox. They're not really boys though, they're teenagers. |
| 2:06
| Stan's wondering how they can be ball boys and still go to school. Steve has no idea, maybe Stan should call a truant officer. |
| 2:07
| The kids all probably go to St. Rita's and have something worked out with the school. The kids don't go to class in April, May and September and in exchange the priests get all the tickets they want. |
| 2:08
| Buzz is here. The reason he needs him here is because Stan is talking about how much school the bat boys miss. Steve wants this place to be a big happy family but he can't do it alone. And Terry doesn't care, he just agrees with Stan because he wants to get out of here. |
| 2:09
| Steve misses the Cubs ball girls, that was a great idea. He once helped Garry Meier get Marla Collins back to his hotel room during the 1984 playoffs. Garry never closed on it though so all of Steve's hard work was for nothing. |
| 2:10
| As Steve recalls it appeared as if Harry Caray was trying to get Marla so in a way it was a rescue. But then nothing happened. Steve tried to be a good wingman and push it Garry's way though. |
| 2:11
| Then there was a cockroach crawling up the wall, which Garry smashed with his turquoise boot. That was not a turn on for Marla, who left right after that. |
| 2:17
| The only way Thome's home run would have been better is if it would have won the game and propelled them into the playoffs. |
| 2:18
| A walk-off home run is still a pretty good way to get your 500th. Steve thought it was Bobby Jenks and Jermaine Dye carrying him off the field but he couldn't tell. |
| 2:19
| Pete confirms it was JD and Denks. Dye looks very different without his hat and Denk has a very troubling mohawk thing going. It looks like there's a leach on the back of his head, sucking his brains out. Plus it goes below the edge of the hat |
| 2:20
| That was a good Cubs game yesterday, how does Pete feel? Should we get Jim in on the Cubs chat too? |
| 2:21
| The Cubs don't have to worry about the Cardinals any more but the Brewers are still one game back. They don't have another day off though so that could be good for the Cubs. |
| 2:22
| The Cubs play the Reds, or Red Legs as Steve likes to call them, 6 more times this year. Unfortunately they have a losing record against the Reds. Now is a good time to start winning then. |
| 2:23
| Jim seems down, is he stressed out? It's going to be a long two weeks but he's very excited. He liked seeing the Cubs beat up the Cardinals but the playoffs will be even better. |
| 2:24
| It seems like the Cubs have it going on. Jim's a bit panicky but that's the nature of a Cubs fan. They're just not used to this. He's experienced this before but after 2003, who would even think that would happen. |
| 2:25
| It doesn't get any weirder than that Bartman thing and Steve's seen a lot of weird things. And the worst part is that Bartman doesn't even live here. |
| 2:26
| Jim is pretty sure he does still live here, there was a guy who came up from Texas to interview him and kill him. We do know that Pat Looney still lives here and owns the Abbey Pub with his crazy brother. |
| 2:27
| How do Pete and JIm feel about the Bears game, while he's got them on the blower? Steve's about ready to turn on Rex Grossman. Pete thinks it's too early, he'll wait until after the Dallas game to decide. |
| 2:28
| Steve was at the game, it's not too early. Rex was throwing to guys in the stands. The first half was good but the second half was terrible. Jim was expecting a blow-out. |
| 2:29
| In the second half there were a lot of guys open down the field that Rex wasn't throwing to. Bernard Berrian was so open he set up a folding chair down the field and then Rex would throw it to Napoleon Harris. |
| 2:30
| Every time Rex got sacked it was while he was running backwards. At one point, Rex was sacked into Steve's lap and he's on the third level. |
| 2:31
| Everyone is going to turn on him next Sunday when they see how good Tony Romo is. He's just some knucklehead from Illinois. Pete thinks the Bears will make Tony look ridiculous. |
| 2:32
| Maybe Tom Thayer will set Steve straight but he heard some highlights yesterday and he didn't seem happy either, like when Rex threw it to Napoleon Harris. |
| 2:33
| It's pretty easy to see that Harris is wearing a red jersey and the Bears are wearing a white jersey. Maybe Rex is color blind? They're probably running a battery of tests on him as we speak. |
| 2:34
| Maybe they need to get Dr. Grossman up here to berate Rex during the games. At least get him in the press conferences after the games. You could tell by the way they always showed him during college games that he was like the Great Santini. Alright sports fans! |
| 2:40
| Steve wants to like Rex Grossman. He's not being paid to learn to be a QB though. |
| 2:41
| He also shouldn't be answering questions so candidly though. That's why Steve thinks his dad verbally beat him. He shouldn't break down like that in front of the press. |
| 2:42
| Buzz prefers his QBs to be mad, not mealy-mouthed. He needs to have a little swagger. Everyone says Tony Romo is a jerk, of course he is! He's an NFL QB! |
| 2:43
| You have to be cocky if you're a QB, you could get killed out there! Of course the Chicago media would knock all the cockiness right out of you. |
| 2:44
| Is Chris Leak gone? He might still be on the practice squad but that's something to ask Tom Thayer later. He did alright during the pre-season but that was against the 3rd and 4th string guys so who knows. |
| 2:45
| Leak does have a certain look though. If Steve looked the way Grossman did in his helmet he'd have some sort of facial surgery to reduce his cheek size. Rex knows it took because he can't get that helmet off fast enough and into the baseball cap. |
| 2:46
| Jeff George looked silly in his helmet, that's probably where he went wrong. Someone must be able to work with your head to make it look good in a football helmet. |
| 2:47
| Adrian Peterson looks like Whoopi Goldberg but when he's got the helmet on he looks cool. Maybe Rex should become a musician because everyone looks cool holding a guitar. |
| 2:48
| If Rex can play maybe he should stop by the House of Blues in a couple of weeks and jam with the Dahlfins. |
| 2:49
| Remember be listening all day for the sounder from the last show where Steve says that the Austin's crowd is their best yet. |
| 2:50
| The Back Porch Stage is a smaller venue so this will be a harder ticket to get. Steve had to break the news to Jason that they weren't playing the main stage at the House of Blues. |
| 2:51
| When Steve was at Soldier Field yesterday he was looking over at Charter One Pavilion and he thought that would be a cool place to play. What does that hold, 1,000 people or something? |
| 2:52
| Pete thinks it holds 5,000 or 6,000. That's too big then. Steve would be looking at a bunch of empty seats. |
| 2:53
| The next show is a week from Saturday. A week from Friday is the thing with Garry at the Park West for Gilda's Club. |
| 2:58
| Steve would also like to go on record right now and say that the front 7 aren't doing a good job blocking for Rex. It's not all his fault but still he needs to come up with a plan. |
| 2:59
| Olin Kreutz is taking all the blame but he just does that because he's the captain. Yesterday he had to step in between a few players and then flipped a Chief the bird. He got a penalty for that. |
| 3:00
| It doesn't seem like they should be penalized for flipping the bird but they're probably worried about the kids seeing that. Kids can see someone being paralyzed last week but not someone flipping the bird. |
| 3:01
| Song: All Kinds of Time, Fountains of Wayne |
| 3:04
| Steve's going to go through this once more with Buzz because he always does after this song. It's the only football song Steve can think to play. |
| 3:05
| Then Buzz says he has a great song about Monday Night Football. He brings it in and it turns out there's profanity. Buzz is used to an edited version and doesn't see a problem with one profanity. |
| 3:06
| There's no Blue Monday song because there's no show open but Buzz is welcome to play one. Buzz called Pete today and asked about the song but he was quite firm in saying no. |
| 3:07
| Eventually Pete softened up a little bit and there was a little wiggle room. Buzz is welcome to play something though. |
| 3:08
| Buzz will go back and look for something. He attended the festivities at B.L.U.E.S. last night for the late Chicago Eddie. Chicago Eddie Schwartz?! (Steve does funny Eddie Schwartz impersonation) |
| 3:09
| Chicago Eddie is Chicago's biggest blues fan. He was actually recognized by the city of Chicago. He was a white gentleman, in his early 70s. How did he go? Bad ticker? |
| 3:10
| Steve was on his way to the saved emails for a mailbag segment when he saw one that just came in. A listener says the show log isn't working. Did Pete tell Jim to cancel that too? He's cutting back on everything after Steve cut out the show open. |
| 3:11
| That show open was Pete's own show, it's what he lived for. Pete's over it but now Steve will pay. |
| 3:12
| Pete did not have a pizza for the Bears game yesterday. He really knows how to live. He should be on Oprah, teaching others how to live his way. |
| 3:13
| Instead of a pizza Pete had a Lean Cuisine panini. What's wrong with him? Steve is coming over there for the next away game with a hooker and a pizza. Pete would love for Steve to come over, at least with the pizza. |
| 3:14
| Steve needs to use Pete as the excuse to bring the hooker over. She'd be very discriminating. |
| 3:15
| Steve doesn't need a tour of Rogers Park, he just wants to come over and watch the game, eat the pizza and then leave. All Pete needs to do is tell him where the bathroom is. |
| 3:16
| Steve could see the bathroom in Pete's condo being in the living room, like a penitentiary. And Steve is like his cell mate. |
| 3:17
| Pete would look forward to something like that, the only person who's been in his place is Mary. That's none of our business really. Would Catman come? He'd probably try to monopolize the hooker. |
| 3:18
| Jim's being fidgety. He's trying to fix the problem with the show log. Ed moved Dahl.com over the weekend and there was an issue. Ed just decided to change servers without any discussion at all. |
| 3:19
| When decide he could just do whatever he wants? Jim doesn't want to say anything right now |
| 3:20
| Steve went to the Sox game with Matt on Saturday, and hit a U-Haul with his car. There's a way to get Matt a pass but it's inconvenient for him. |
| 3:21
| Matt said he would take the train which means Steve will have to drive him home. That's an extra hour of Steve's time because Matt lives on the Northside. |
| 3:22
| Matt further complicated things by riding his bike to the train so that means Steve has to drive him to the EL station. |
| 3:23
| After dropping Matt off Steve drove down a few more blocks and then went down a one-way side street with cars parked on both sides. |
| 3:24
| There was a U-Haul parked on the street and Steve assumed there was enough room for him to get by. Now he knows why side mirrors on a lot of cars are collapsible. Lucky there was no damage to the car. |
| 3:25
| Still though, who parks a U-Haul on a side street like that? Steve was just glad he didn't hit a kid or something. It all sounds the same. |
| 3:26
| And of course with Matt, he won't ask Steve to give him a ride. So he doesn't get the satisfaction of doing something for him. |
| 3:27
| Ed Silha is on the phone. Is the transfer of Dahl.com complete? The transfer was completed on Saturday but the problem with the show log was a curve ball. Will Steve still be able to get his porn? |
| 3:28
| When Steve said that Ed had nothing to do last Saturday and decided to switch the site over it really hit home. Ed needs a girlfriend! |
| 3:29
| Maybe Ed could come over to Pete's next weekend when Steve brings the hooker. |
| 3:30
| Stan and Terry tried to get Ed a girlfriend but it didn't work. Of all the people Ed knows, Steve is the one who can probably get him laid, doesn't he know that? |
| 3:31
| Ed's email about the Dahl.com transfer just screamed lonely computer nerd. 10:30 on a Saturday night is a good time to do it though. Of course Steve spent his Saturday night dropping Matt Dahl off and then hitting a U-Haul truck. |
| 3:32
| Even though there was no damage Steve got involved in some road rage racing on Lake Shore Drive on Saturday. Steve's been driving that thing for 30 years, long before the guy he was racing even came to this country. |
| 3:33
| Stan and Terry tried to set Ed up with Susan Carlson. He doesn't mind that she's bug-eyed. Steve thought Ana Devlantes was bug-eyed but she's not. |
| 3:34
| Ana might be too far out of Ed's league, he needs to start on a cable access level. Steve could probably set him up with that girl in the Freedom Auto Dealers commercial. |
| 3:35
| Ed isn't familiar with that one because he has DirectTV and there's no local channels. Remember the time when Ed had the boys over for the Monday Night Game and his TV went out? |
| 3:36
| What is Ed looking for in a woman, Steve can try to help him out. Ed's looking for a girl-next-door type. Is there a girl living next door to him? |
| 3:37
| Ed's on a floor with all dudes. There are a few cute girls in the building but he doesn't want to get into that situation. Ed needs to stop worrying about stuff like that. |
| 3:38
| Ed did not ask Stan and Terry to hook him up with Susan Carlson. He had mentioned something to them months before about her. Then Stan broke guy code, because he's a woman. We need to check him out down there. He might be a woman or at worst a G.I. Joe. |
| 3:39
| Steve sees Ed out there working chicks. He likes to stand with his back to the bar a lot. Women like confidence but that's too confident. |
| 3:40
| Ed needs to go confident and then wounded bird. Women love a project. |
| 3:41
| Steve sees Ed as Leonard DiCaprio standing arms spread on the front of the Titanic. The only difference he's alone. The girl left the model T after he broke out the sketch pad. |
| 3:42
| Ed is too picky, that's his problem. Pete isn't, he deals in volume. He's like Al Piemonte. The other way is to just hit on everyone, like a shotgun, until something happens. Brendan is really good at that. He hit on Steve today already. He can't help himself. |
| 3:47
| Caller Pete was in Mexico last year with the show and that's where he first met Ed. |
| 3:48
| There's a show on VH1 called The Pick-Up Artist where this guy teaches other guys how to meet women. Is that based on that book The Game that Steve read? |
| 3:49
| The Game was a very fascinating book about guys who have these different games that they use to meet women. |
| 3:50
| It looks like this show is based on one of the guys in the book. A lot of the subtleties are probably lost on VH1. |
| 3:51
| Caller Tom has also been watching this show on VH1, there are a lot of quick tips that come up on screen. |
| 3:52
| In The Game they tell you do stuff like find two woman, one you are interested in. Then you get really mean, saying stuff about her hair or whatever, while complimenting her friend. |
| 3:53
| It's sort of hard to explain this thing unless you've read the book. Tom doesn't think it's being mean though, just negative. |
| 3:54
| It seems mean to Steve but Tom sounds like he's in the program. It does seem to work for everyone in the book though. One of the guys, perhaps even the guy in this VH1 show, took a girl away from Scott Baio. |
| 3:55
| It seems mean to Steve but for guys who can't just be themselves to get women it probably isn't. |
| 4:02
| On the phone is Mark Schanowski from Comcast Sportsnet. Steve didn't want the post-game yesterday right after the game because he was there. |
| 4:03
| When Steve got home he watched the replay and Pat Boyle teased the Jerry's GQ but they never got to it. |
| 4:04
| Usually when they replay the post-game they'll cut it down a little bit. They might want to edit out the part where they promo something that never plays. |
| 4:05
| Then it's over and Steve is watching women's softball. Nathan Vasher won in case Steve was wondering. |
| 4:06
| Next time maybe they could edit out the Jim Miller stuff. Steve doesn't care what he has to say. |
| 4:07
| Cubs are hosting Cincy tonight. There was some consternation among Cubs fans because Roy Oswalt wasn't going to face the Brewers this week. |
| 4:08
| Everyone was saying it was a conspiracy but as it turns out his wife is having a baby. So what? Is he her obstetrician? |
| 4:09
| The interesting thing Lou Piniella is doing is pitching Zambrano and Lilly on three days rest. Zambrano has never done that but he always says he feels good on the fourth day so we'll see. |
| 4:10
| You don't really like to see experimentation like that with a 1 game division lead but this is what you have to do sometimes. |
| 4:11
| The Cubs haven't done anything easy this year so it'll probably come down to the final weekend. That makes it more fun though. It's like the playoffs are already going on. |
| 4:12
| Jim Thome hit his 500th home run which was exciting but it doesn't really mean anything. It's one of three great moments in the entire year. |
| 4:13
| Covering sports it's easy to get cynical about most athletes but Jim Thome is one of the good guys. Steve did bring him a congratulatory muffin basket. |
| 4:14
| Steve was at the Bears game so he didn't have a chance to see it happen. And speaking of that, Steve is about ready to break bad on Rex. |
| 4:15
| Steve expects Rex to get better in every game. He was better in the first half but not in the second half. |
| 4:16
| Steve thinks the Bears should claim Tony Romo since he went to school in Illinois. |
| 4:17
| Mark thinks this is a make or break year for Rex. The Bears didn't even attempt to give him a contract extension which means that if he doesn't have a good year he'll probably be gone. |
| 4:18
| Mark also thinks that if the Bears don't win the next few games Lovie will probably go with Griese. |
| 4:19
| Steve keeps waiting for an epiphany with Rex but it doesn't happen. Everyone picked the Saints to win the NFC Championship but now they're 0-2 so it seems wide open. |
| 4:20
| All of the sudden the division games aren't automatic wins. Mark really wanted to see the Bears beat up on the Chiefs because they're a bad team. |
| 4:28
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 4:29
| Some of the stuff on this diet, Steve could eat everyday forever. Buzz has had a few things from Steve's lunch, they're great. |
| 4:30
| Steve's been on Balance for Life for a few years and now he's using it to maintain his weight. If he accidentally eats too much at the Bears game he can get right back on the horse that threw him. |
| 4:31
| People always come up to Steve and tell him how good he looks. He must have looked really bad before though. The diet also motivated Steve to start working out more. |
| 4:37
| Chef Hans was mentioned on the channel 7 news today. Linda Yu loves him. |
| 4:38
| Buzz saw Patrick Bertoletti on the news after the jalapeño eating contest. So that means he doesn't have to call in, right? |
| 4:39
| Steve's just kidding, he can call in if he wants. Patrick gave Steve some sweet t-shirts last week. He's got one from a peanut butter and jelly eating contest and another from a pulled pork contest. Steve might rock the pulled pork shirt at the gym tomorrow. |
| 4:40
| Live read: Frame Warehouse |
| 4:41
| Song: Mind Your Own Business, Taj Mahal |
| 4:48
| We probably won't hear from Patrick today, you probably don't want to do anything the day after eating 200 jalapeño peppers? |
| 4:49
| The contest had to be cut short because they ran out of peppers. How could a company that cans jalapeño peppers run out of peppers for their own contest? Patrick said last week that he could eat 200, maybe they should have listened to the show. |
| 4:50
| That's just poor planning on festival organizers. It sort of sounds like something Frijole Joe would be behind. He does some marketing in the Mexican community doesn't he? |
| 4:51
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:52
| The Juice is still in jail and will be at least until his bail hearing on Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, we have tracked down audio of OJ leaving a wedding ceremony, whistling If I Only Had a Brain. |
| 4:53
| There are pictures of Big Steve at the contest on Sunday so Frijole Joe was involved in some way. There's also a photo of Ronald McDonald towering over Big Steve. How big is Ronald McDonald? That's very disquieting. |
| 4:54
| Here's something Steve knows about the OJ thing. Even if someone has your stuff, you can't get it back with a gun. |
| 4:55
| Buzz also had the audio tape, heavily edited, of the robbery. Was it triple edited because Steve heard a version that still had a few things left in. |
| 4:56
| OJ does sound very angry. That's the kind of angry you get right before you slash a couple of throats. Steve's pretty sure that's the last thing Ron and Nicole heard. |
| 4:57
| Swedish police have put Lars Vilks in hiding after Al Qaeda put a bounty on his head. Vilks is a cartoonist who's most recent work is the Muhammad's head on the body of a dog. You'd think that when you're doing that you know it's bad. |
| 4:58
| There are reports that Kevin Federline may have a hit out on him. Not a hit record though. The FBI can't confirm it though. Who would put a hit out on him anyway? |
| 4:59
| Speculation is that Britney put a hit on him. She can't even get a hit record. Steve knew there was a record joke in there somewhere. |
| 5:00
| They should take those kids away from both of them. |
| 5:01
| Emmy viewership was down again last night. Steve watched it, it was actually pretty good. They ran it more like a TV show. |
| 5:02
| Alan Greenspan is releasing a new book. Among the points he makes is that the war in Iraq is only about oil and the Republicans traded principal for power and got neither. |
| 5:03
| A new study reveals that older men who shack up with younger women increase their lifespan. |
| 5:04
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's also Manager Monday and on the phone is David Sarkowitz who manages the Taco Bell on Rt. 25 in Carpentersville. |
| 5:05
| Business is good and they won't be running out of jalapeño peppers. |
| 5:09
| Tom Thayer is on the phone. At times he forgets how much Steve comes up during the broadcasting. Nothing wrong with that though. |
| 5:10
| Tom always tries to position the promo for Steve's show after something good happens. |
| 5:11
| Yesterday at the game Steve was behind a guy who had a Tom Thayer jersey on. It looked sweet in the sea of Urlachers and Paytons. |
| 5:12
| Sometimes at the games Tom will look down into the crowd and write down the jerseys he sees. Every once in a while some knucklehead will pull out a McNown or a Salaam or a Curtis Enis. |
| 5:13
| Steve's sitting on a Kordell Stewart jersey. Did he make it into an easy chair or is it just draped over his couch like an afghan? |
| 5:14
| Jeff took 57 because his brother was playing with a guy on Atlanta who wore it for 17 years. He was hoping it would bring him some luck and it did. Now Olin Kreutz is wearing 57. |
| 5:15
| Steve heard Tom talking about Olin having some anger management issues. They're not really an issue for Olin, he doesn't mind having them. |
| 5:16
| So where to begin. Steve would like to first say that Jeff was a little too premature about licensing the "ridiculous" thing. Tom thinks there are a few phrases Jeff could trademark and maybe Steve could help him. |
| 5:17
| Hester is ridiculous though, he's the most exciting guy in football. Steve has a pretty good vantage point and when he got the ball yesterday it didn't look like anything was going to happen. |
| 5:18
| Hester got the ball, waited, looked around and then figured it out. Statistician Doug Coletti gave Tom and Jeff a stat yesterday and Hester is averaging 1 touchdown every 11 touches. |
| 5:19
| Hester was exciting and the defense played well but Steve left feeling bad. Tom thinks everyone did. People are concerned because of what happened offensively. |
| 5:20
| There was a lull in the game but then the offense went on a 7 minute run and scored and that really brought everyone around. |
| 5:21
| Right now the Bears are like a rowboat with a hole in it. They've got some really good guys rowing who might get them to shore in time but it might sink. |
| 5:22
| The offensive line needs to work on picking up the blitz better. The Bears are probably missing Thomas Jones on that. |
| 5:23
| They need to start running plays that will make Cedric Benson feel comfortable. They did that right at the beginning of the game. |
| 5:24
| No one is asking Rex to be perfect because it's impossible to do at QB. There were a few passes yesterday that would have been receptions if he would have increased the velocity though. |
| 5:25
| Tom just got done watching the Dallas/Miami game from yesterday, with the coach's clicker. He saw a very good defensive front, similar to San Diego's. They're fast too and they'll come from different angles. |
| 5:26
| Tom doesn't think Steve needs to panic about Rex just yet. Steve thinks he needs to get some swagger though. In those post-game press conferences he's letting the media pick him apart. |
| 5:31
| Steve has said this before but he'll say it again, Tom and Jeff are really good together. |
| 5:32
| Tom forgot to ask Steve about his show at Bandito Barney's. He wanted to make sure he had a good time because he knows the owner, Tom McNamee. |
| 5:33
| Yesterday Steve was walking to the stadium, through some hardcore tailgating, and a lot of people recognized him for some reason. |
| 5:34
| No one offered Steve any food but it was good to see what people were grilling. Then someone yelled Steve's name. |
| 5:35
| Steve didn't turn around because he's not a dog but it was Robocop, Jim Thornton. Tom actually saw him on the sidelines yesterday, he was dressed like Johnny Cash. |
| 5:36
| Jim was working the tailgating, he still has the guns. The other day Dick Stanfeld got inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame and Tom was there. Stanfeld's kids were also there and they listen to the show. |
| 5:37
| They heard Tom say something as Dick Stanfeld and they loved it. Tom's Dick Stanfeld is the best. |
| 5:38
| Steve was looking for Jay yesterday because he was supposed to be up in the Cadillac Club to sign autographs. He actually committed to it but didn't show up. |
| 5:39
| John Cusack was also up in Steve's area. Tom just sat with him at a Cubs game a few weeks ago. Tom talked to him about coming up to the booth sometime. |
| 5:40
| Steve didn't want to say Hilgie was a no-show. Tom's sitting in his living room right now, as soon as he gets off the phone he's going to get on him about it. |
| 5:41
| Steve will be at the game on Sunday night. Tom thinks it'll be a playoff atmosphere. It could be a deciding game for home field advantage too. |
| 5:42
| There was a lot of hype about last night's game and then the Chargers got blown out. They've had two tough games to start the season. |
| 5:43
| That Tom Brady is awesome. He was a 6th round pick and now look at him. Somehow the scouts overlooked him because maybe he didn't look the part and now he's on his way to being the next Bret Favre. |
| 5:51
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 5:52
| Steve noticed yesterday that CBS didn't run any commercials for the first 20 minutes. That's probably because some people were coming in late from another game. |
| 5:53
| Then they crammed all the commercials into the second half which really made it slow. |
| 5:54
| It might make a difference to the football players because they're normally used to a time out after every kick-off. |
| 5:55
| Jay Hilgenberg is sticking his head into the living room. Tom's telling him that Steve thinks he stiffed him yesterday. |
| 5:56
| Steve did not say that, Tom was the one who said that. Steve just thought maybe he missed him. |
| 5:57
| Tom never got a chance to ask Rex if that camera distracted him in San Diego last week. Maybe he could ask him if the TV timeouts threw him off a little bit. |
| 5:58
| It certainly threw Steve off because he wasn't sure if he should go with buffalo wings or Monsters of the Midway chili. |
| 6:06
| Tom made a good call picking Devin Hester as the MVB. Was there anyone else really? |
| 6:07
| When you see him returning a kick you don't think it's going to happen. Then it happens again and you still can't believe it. |
| 6:08
| Every game has been tough so far but this one will be the toughest yet. |
| 6:09
| Caller Steve wants to know how smart Hester is, like when he caught that one kick-off out-of-bounds. Tom doesn't think that was his intention, it might have been the momentum that brought him out. |
| 6:10
| Steve loves Devin Hester but he's heard him being interviewed and Tom's probably right. He has a lot of other stuff to think about though so he might not be thinking about catching the ball like that. |
| 6:11
| Caller John is sick of all this good Rex/bad Rex stuff. It doesn't seem like people are really analyzing everything that's going on. It doesn't seem like it's all his fault. |
| 6:12
| If Tom doesn't mind, Steve would like to take this one. The Rex Grossman story is an easy one for the media. If you have to file a story right after the game, that's the easiest thing to look at in terms of what went wrong. |
| 6:13
| It's a lot easier to talk about Rex than it is about the o-line or whatever else could have happened. |
| 6:14
| Tom also thinks that in professional sports, your job isn't safe forever. You're always being evaluated. In the position for QB for the Bears, when they have the weapons at their disposal and they're not all being used the pressure goes to the QB. |
| 6:15
| Garrett Wolfe and Adrian Peterson need to get in there as well as Mark Bradley. There are other guys on the offense who need to be kept happy. |
| 6:16
| Everyone has the same game plan even if sometimes it doesn't look like it. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way though. |
| 6:17
| The QB position needs to get better weekly though. |
| 6:18
| Caller Dave had a question about the play when Olin flipped the guy off. Was anyone in the media brave enough to ask him about it? |
| 6:19
| Joniak actually asked him about it after the game. He just shrugged his shoulders and said "what can you do?" |
| 6:20
| Olin went down to pick up Rashied David and then some guy from the Chiefs grabbed Olin and started dragging him. That guy is lucky that all he got was the finger. |
| 6:21
| Olin wouldn't do anything unless it was necessary. He's broken two guy's jaws, that we know of. |
| 6:22
| That's a new record for Tom on the show, 1 hour and 20 minutes. |
| 6:27
| Maybe Hester did have that out-of-bounds catch planned out. It's the University of Miami education, Steve should have never doubted it. |
| 6:28
| Steve has to be done exactly at 7:00 tonight because we're picking up the Monday Night Football game. It's a hard end, which Buzz always enjoys. |
| 6:29
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:30
| For some reason As the Mortgage Turns as been abbreviated ATMT in Steve's copy. Probably so David can put a few extra words in. |
| 6:31
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 6:32
| News with Buzz |
| 6:33
| OJ Simpson will remain behind bars at least until a hearing on Wednesday. It seems like he's in some big trouble. He allegedly led 5 other men into a Las Vegas hotel room and stole sports memorabilia at gun point. He could face up to 35 years in prison. |
| 6:34
| Steve still wants to know who invited OJ to their wedding. He must be a great dancer. |
| 6:40
| Steve and Buzz were just doing their back-timing during the break. Steve figures they have 7 more minutes and then a break and then enough time to say goodbye and button up any loose ends. |
| 6:41
| Button up? Steve meant tie-up any loose ends. That was a loose end right there. |
| 6:42
| A Swedish cartoonist is in hiding after Al Qaeda put a bounty out on him for his depiction of the head of Muhammad on a dog's body. |
| 6:43
| Mitt Romney has written a letter to the UN asking that Iran's president not be allowed to speak to the assembly next week. In addition he believes he should be indicted for war crimes. |
| 6:44
| The White House is building a case for war against Iran according to the London Telegraph. Great. |
| 6:45
| Alan Keyes will make a third attempt to run for President. He'll stand out, probably because he's the nuttiest. Buzz applauds his entry just because he hasn't heard Steve do his voice in a while. |
| 6:46
| Buzz also wants to know why Keyes left Illinois when he promised he'd stay here. |
| 6:54
| Of all the Emmy moments Pete chose Katherine Heigl from Grey's Anatomy or Gays Anatomy. Was that all he had for today? |
| 6:55
| Pete also grabbed Sally Field and Ray Romano being cut off. Romano made an off-color remark about Patricia Heaton who's on that new show with Kelsey Grammar. |
| 6:56
| Sally Field took the Lord's name in vein, which you're not supposed to do. They tell Steve and Buzz that all the time. |
