OneStat.com Web Analytics
2008 Logs
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
2007 Logs
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
 
Steve's Blog
You never know what's going to be on Steve's mind until you read his latest blog entry.
Janet's Planet
See how the other half lives. Blast off to the fertile matriarchy of Janet's Planet.
Go Places with Steve
See what Steve and the gang are up to, on and off the air by perusing our extensive and searchable Photo Galleries.
 

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

     
 
2:04 Terry is worried about taking the written driver's license test but he shouldn't be. What kind of adult worries about that?
2:05 Has Terry seen some of the morons out there with driver's licenses? It's not a hard test. Buzz thinks it's failable though.
2:06 In Steve's world he doesn't worry about the written driver's test. Why does he have to take it anyone, because he's black?
2:07 Terry isn't an organ donor so that's probably why they're making him do it. He's also probably too fat to be a Tumbler.
2:08 A few people called into the show to tell Terry that the test is failable. They need to stop taking those calls. And they should tell those people to stop calling too. Our advertisers don't want to sell to people who can't pass a driving test anyway.
2:09 Terry's taking the day off to take the test too which is why it's a big deal. He likes to go out to Deerfield because there aren't as many people there. That's a Buzz Kilman move.
2:10 Why doesn't Terry just go over to the State of Illinois building? Why would there be less people in Deerfield?
2:11 Deerfield is a very populated area, this sounds like an urban legend. Do people just flee because they see a black man?
2:12 Terry's actually taking the day off at the Tribune, not the radio show. What does taking time off there entail? All he has to do is write something and send it on his computer.
2:13 Terry likes to show his face around there so they know he's still an employee. It also reminds people that he's black and can't be fired.
2:14 Terry is crazy to not go to the State of Illinois building. It's right next to the food court too. The entrance to the DMV is right next to the Popeye's!
2:15 Terry is operating under some outmoded idea of the DMV. He's still in the George Ryan era when a lady with a beehive haircut takes you back.
2:23 Caller Kathy was at the Deerfield facility a month ago and it's a pain in the butt. You end up behind a bunch of 80 year old men with walkers.
2:24 Terry's going to the Thompson Center anyway so it's not a big deal. That place has a great food court, handpicked by Jim Thompson himself.
2:25 He didn't really pick the restaurants but it would be funny if he did.
2:26 Steve's watching CNN right now and they've got OJ on, involved in what looks like a low-speed chase. Really though it's just him leaving court because he made the $125,000 bail.
2:27 They're shooting it as if it's a low-speed chase though. Whoever's driving OJ is not using their turn signals too, Steve would like to see them pulled over for that.
2:28 CNN made a big deal about the arraignment hearing today even though they usually take about 5 minutes. They read the charges and set bail, that's it. CNN was acting like it was the start of the next trial of the century.
2:29 Then they spent a half hour on CNN being disappointed that the arraignment wasn't a big deal. But they're the ones who made a big deal about it. They created their own rollercoaster and now they're getting sick from riding it.
2:30 Steve tried to email Pete about this but the email server was down today. Did he happen to see the guy yelling for OJ after the hearing? First Steve thought it was a Howard Stern or Opie & Anthony prank but then he realized it was just an OJ fan.
2:31 Steve couldn't believe they didn't stop the guy though. Don't they have police out there? How about a nice tasing at the podium?
2:32 There's no way anyone can look at the video of that University of Florida student and think he shouldn't be tased. Even on CNN today they did a funny story about how it doesn't hurt that much to be tased.
2:33 By the end of yesterday Buzz was really enjoying the video of the kid being tased. The only reason this is a big deal is because guys who run colleges are wusses. They've spent their entire lives trying to avoid the real world. They're the same kind of people that agree to get rid of Chief Illiniwek.
2:34 In the wake of this story there's a new one about an elderly woman in a wheelchair who was tased to death by police officers who thought she was a threat.
2:35 Steve doesn't really care about any of the sidebar tasing stories they're trotting out right now. He does enjoy a good tasing though.
2:36 The tasing of the old woman happened last year. Maybe if it happened yesterday Steve would care. Maybe she was a threat. If you're being tased you flop around a lot so cops might mistake that for resisting.
2:37 The kid in Florida seems like a complete idiot. The only reason we're seeing the video is because he gave his camera to a girl behind him in line to ask a question. It's exactly what he wanted to happen.
2:38 A lot of universities equipped their police officers with tasers in the wake of the Virginia Tech thing. Campus police are knuckleheads which is why they're campus police. They still have the authority of regular police officers though.
2:39 The whole OJ thing is ridiculous though. The guy who set everyone up was on Larry King for an hour last night.
2:40 It's good to have OJ back though. Plus his trial will be in a state that televises trials. And the judge has a ponytail and he looks a little bit like the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
2:45 By the end of the press conference with OJ's lawyer that fan was standing right next to him. He didn't stop either.
2:46 Caller Beverly reminds Steve of the tasering scene in Me, Myself and Irene. Steve doesn't remember that scene.
2:47 Beverly just swore and then laughed about it. That's not funny, it's career-ending. That was a borderline call anyway, this is what Steve gets for being nice. Save those calls for your show Brendan!
2:48 How does Brendan respond to those charges? He won't even talk to Steve, he's just saving himself for tonight. Brendan's just trying to sabotage Steve's show so he and Matt can have it.
2:49 Steve wouldn't have broken bad on her if she hadn't sworn. You can't say the s-word and then start laughing about it while Steve figures out what to do.
2:50 Steve still feels that we need a system where the call gets put on hold when you hit the dump button. During the next break Drew will come in and explain the very complicated, three-stage delay system.
2:51 Caller Scott was hit by a taser but it was all for fun. It wasn't fun though. It's very painful for as long as the person is pulling the trigger.
2:52 Caller Keith wanted to let Steve know that about two new shows on UPN on Tuesdays. First is one called The Academy, about police trainees in LA. Then after that is a show called Jail from the people behind COPS. Is it sweet?
2:53 Steve's favorite COPS episodes are Tased & Confused and Bad Girls. Whenever you see a girl in one of those episodes she seems completely OK but you know something bad is going to happen.
2:54 Whenever you see a girl breaking bad it's completely spectacular. Keith has a Too Hot for TV COPS DVD featuring Bad Girls. Steve might also have that.
2:55 There's one episode of COPS where two officers are dressed up as Arab guys, renting a hooker in a Vegas hotel room. They're playing dumb when she arrives and the girl couldn't have been nicer and more helpful.
2:56 She even calls her friend to get another girl in there. Then they arrest her. Steve's pretty sure they arrest the friend too after she shows up.
2:57 Then there are 20 cops in another room watching it. It's just not right.
3:06 In that video of the kid being tased you can hear them stop but he keeps screaming. It doesn't hurt after they stop. If Steve were in that situation he'd tase the kid again.
3:07 Steve can't get enough of watching that kid get tased. This whole thing was premeditated and he got his payoff.
3:08 Firefighters in Lansing, Michigan cut a whole in the side of a house and used a forklift to extricate a 900 pound man.
3:09 This happened after the man's nurse became concerned about his health. It seems a little late to be worried about it now. She should have started to worry after 300 pounds.
3:10 Rescue workers were called in on Tuesday after the nurse called the police according to fire chief Tom Cochrane, formerly of Red Rider.
3:11 The man's brother claims that he suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare disorder that creates a chronic feeling of hunger. Steve might have that too!
3:12 Mark Czerniec posted a link to the website of the kid who got tased, Andrew Meyer. The link says forbidden and then there's a long paragraph which Steve thought was some sort of manifesto.
3:13 This is coming on the heels of the server going down today which was the result of Ed Silha's late-night server move over the weekend.
3:14 According to Meyer's website there's going to be a sit-in for him on campus. Why are they having a sit-in for this loudmouth kid who got tasered?
3:15 The funny thing is that the question this kid was asking was really complicated and from a book that a guy wrote about the 2004 election being stolen.
3:16 Meyer's email address if famouswriterman@aol.com. Famous Writer Man? Right there you can tell he's a jerk.
3:17 Can we hear that video again, it's so fantastic. Steve's going to read one of Meyer's columns while Pete looks for it.
3:18 Meyer also performs stand-up, or at least there's a link to a friend's stand-up routine at a comedy club.
3:19 Right below that is a video of Meyer's dad's favorite comedian, George Carlin. Carlin is not as physical of a comedian as Meyer is in the taser video.
3:26 There was no owwwwwww from CNN's Rick Sanchez. Steve prefers the owww from the Andrew Meyer. That's how he refers to himself.
3:27 Steve can't get enough of it though, it's almost like a blooper video. The book he was talking about had something to do with the 2004 election being stolen because of votes not counted in Ohio.
3:28 The guy who wrote the book is a BBC investigative reporter. We don't really have time to think about all that though, what can be done about it? Kerry didn't get elected and the whole thing will be over a year from January.
3:29 John Kerry didn't exactly mount a stiff defense. Somehow he allowed a guy who basically evaded going to Vietnam make him, a guy who went to Vietnam, look bad.
3:30 Caller Joe knew the kid was going to be tased as soon as he said "don't tase me bro." It's interesting that the kid called the black cop bro too, that's probably why he got tased.
3:31 Joe is a cop and he carries a taser. Meyer's reaction was very dramatic too, he might as well be a woman.
3:32 The Tased & Confused episodes of COPS are also some of Joe's favorites. He can't imagine how many people would walk around doing that if they could carry tasers.
3:33 Joe sounds exactly like a cop would sound after giving someone a ticket. Joe probably wouldn't give Steve a ticket though.
3:34 The other day Steve was bemoaning the fact that he couldn't just walk over to the Dr. Dog/Wilco show at Millennium Park because security guards don't know who he is. Most of them are a lot younger.
3:35 Steve did say that cops always know who he is. When he was at U.S. Cellular the other night a copy came up to him and said he was right, that the cops know who he is and they love him.
3:40 On the phone is Dan Jiggetts from Comcast Sportsnet. He's getting ready to do Bears Blitz for tonight. Steve's been TiVoing that, it's really good.
3:41 This year they have game clips which makes things much easier. It's not that big of a deal during Post Game Live because everyone has just watched the game.
3:42 Steve also likes the configuration of the Post Game Live group except for Jim Miller. it seems uncool for him to wear his Super Bowl ring on set in Chicago. He was the back up to the back up.
3:43 Steve's just giving Dan a hard time. Could he at least get Jim to shave his goatee?
3:44 Dan thinks Steve should come by Comcast on a Sunday to watch the game. They've got a nice screening room with big chairs and Rosati's pizza.
3:45 Steve really doesn't want to mess things up and go on Post Game Live though. Dan thinks it'll help Steve understand the game for Monday morning. Just keep Jim Miller away from him.
3:46 Miller has a show on Sirius Radio but right now Steve, Buzz and Dan are the only people who don't have shows on Sirius.
3:47 Steve's watching the Cubs because you have to right now. They didn't have a great game last night though.
3:48 Some people want to say Zambrano isn't the ace of the staff but he is. He pitched OK last night but the guy on the Reds pitched better. Aaron Harang is their ace.
3:49 Dan still has a degree of comfort with the Cubs. There are guys on the team who are doing what they're supposed to be doing and it seems like this could be their opportunity.
3:50 Ben Sheets could be out for the remainder of the season too, he came out of last night's game in the second inning. You hate to win the division that way but you take what you can get. If you win it all they won't stipulate that it was because Ben Sheets got hurt.
3:51 Dan's trying to find some info about Ben Sheets. All it says is he had tightness in his hammy. They're evaluating him today. It's not good if you're a pitcher and your hammy hurts though.
3:52 What about Tank Johnson, is he going to be able to shed some light on the Bears offensive and defensive schemes for the Cowboys? He can't even remember to not drive drunk.
3:53 Dan doubts he'll be able to help the Cowboys all that much but he's glad Tank found a place to play.
3:54 It doesn't really matter if you know what a team is going to do if you can't execute it.
3:55 Hopefully Rex knows on Sunday not to throw to the guys in the white or the blue or whatever color the Cowboys are wearing.
3:56 Steve hasn't decided what he's going to wear on Sunday night. Dan's trying to decide if he should go with an orange tie.
3:57 Even though it's a night game they'll still do an hour and a half of Post Game Live.
3:58 After Steve watches Bears Blitz tonight about the offense will he realize that maybe Rex isn't that bad?
4:06 Live read: Frame Warehouse
4:07 Steve would pay good money to see Stan and Terry and Tony Curtis at the Some Like it Hot screening. Buzz is a Tony Curtis fan but he has no reaction to this.
4:08 Headlines with Buzz
4:09 OJ Simpson's lawyer held a post-hearing press conference and it was appropriately weird.
4:10 Steve can't believe no one stopped that guy at the OJ press conference. Everyone is probably extra cautious after the tasing incident.
4:11 Brendan says that guy is on Jimmy Kimmel. He was at Michael Jackson's trial too, he must be their trial reporter. He's Jimmy Kimmel's Johnny Salad although we don't have him any more.
4:12 There haven't been any good trials lately and Johnny was sort of putting forth a lackluster effort. He emailed Steve during the Ryan trial to set something up but he should just call in. Steve doesn't have time to set anything up.
4:13 Dan Rather is suing CBS for $70 million because of a contract violation.
4:14 The president of Iran will visit New York this weekend to address the UN. He also requested to make a visit to the 9/11 memorial but that was denied.
4:15 David Bowie showing his support for the Jenna 6, a group of African-American students who beat up a white student.
4:16 This is one of those stories that Steve doesn't understand and won't make time to understand.
4:17 Chris Crocker, who's YouTube video defending Britney Spears that was viewed by over 8 million people, may get his own TV show. Who would give this kid a TV show? Who even cares?
4:18 Isn't this video fake anyway? He sort of sounds like Truman Capote. Buzz doesn't think it's fake, even if the tears were manufactured. The motivation to get out there and do something like that is real.
4:19 Of course Danny Bonaduce got his own TV show and he doesn't have much more to offer than Chris Crocker.
4:20 Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has ordered that every clock in his nation be set back a half hour. Steve prefers when Buzz says Venzuelan.
4:21 Chavez wants clocks set back by next week so that children will not have to wake up before dawn to go to school.
4:22 Venezuela seems like a place we should focus on because of all the oil they have. They're run by a maniac, it could be a one-day deal. There are a lot of Catholics down there too, they're much easier to control.
4:23 Steve's actually been to Venezuela, he had lunch at some seaside cafe with Garry Meier. They were on a cruise and that was a stop over.
4:24 Maybe we should try going back a half-hour instead of an hour. It gets so dark in the winter.
4:25 44 Blue is the production company who has give Chris Crocker a reality TV show and they seem legit. Of course how much could it cost to sign that knucklehead?
4:26 Buzz has watched the entire video and it's very entertaining. It reeks of insincerity to Steve from the get-go though. Buzz thought it was a girl up until Jim kid told him otherwise.
4:27 Steve didn't really want to watch it once although Matt and Brendan got a kick out of it. Maybe it's out of Steve's demo. The kid does look like Greg Potter, drummer of Teenage Radiation.
4:28 Buzz was under the impression that there was a different version of the video, according to Jim kid. Jim was also the one with the cockamamie version of the Cubs game under protest on Monday night. All of the sudden he's like Mark Czerniec Jr.
4:29 Steve calls down to the news room. Buzz was told by Jim that there was a different version where the kid was under a sheet. Jim just thought it looked like the kid was maybe on his bed, under a sheet, filming the video. His mom could walk in at any moment.
4:30 So what Buzz actually did was tap into some bizarre fantasy Jim has created around this video. Maybe the kid is naked under the sheet, except for the t-shirt.
4:31 Steve can see what Jim is saying though, it looks like the kid is hot-housing himself under the sheets. It's a Dutch oven.
4:32 Jim has to remember that Buzz only listens to half of what you tell him. Then he brings it in the studio like it's gospel. Was Jim hosing him about Venezuela setting all their clocks back too?
4:35 Dick Prall will be coming up in a little bit. Buzz doesn't know Dick, what does he do? He's a Chicago-based musician, originally from Des Moines and on The Nadas' label.
4:36 He's good but scruffy-looking but that's the musicians look. Steve and Buzz are more old school, they prefer to look like Wayne Newton. On the weekends Buzz goes with the Wayne Cochrane look.
4:37 Caller Stacy is from Gilbert. Where is that? It's actually just west of Bandito Barney's about 10 miles, across the river.
4:38 Stacy heard a clip of Chris Crocker, no relation to Betty as far as we know, right after it first aired. She also thought for sure that it was a girl. He's very effeminate and scary.
4:39 It's also scary to Steve that, with everything else going on in this world, 8 million people have taken the time to view the video.
4:40 If you want to see something entertaining put a camera on Steve and he'll talk about what he wanted to do with Britney after her VMA performance.
4:41 Stacy saw Chris Crocker being interviewed and he said he had to practice several times before filming the final take, under his Dutch oven with his video set-up.
4:42 It looks like he's lying on his back holding the camera up with his arms under the sheet. Steve's surprised he was able to hold the camera up for 2 minutes straight.
4:43 Stacy thinks that maybe he has something to prop his arms up. Maybe Steve should hook her up with Jim so they can both fantasize about the kid.
4:44 Chris Crocker is the pseudonym of a Tennessee-based YouTube and MySpace personality. He's also a self-described edutainer. How is this educational or entertaining? The only thing we've learned is there are 8 million idiots out there with computers who want to watch this thing.
4:51 Joining Steve and Buzz is Dick Prall. Buzz didn't know he was right next door. Steve was going to say hi to him but then he decided he's going to be like Letterman and talk to the guest afterwards.
4:52 It goes better that way. Afterwards there will be hugs and kisses and email exchanges and IMs.
4:53 It says on Dick's website that he was on the Mac & Slater Show yesterday. What's that? It's an internet radio show where you can curse all you want to.
4:54 Today Dick is on this show and on Saturday he's playing at Schubas' with Dolly Varden opening for him.
4:55 Steve mistakenly said in his blog today that Dick is from Chicago but he's just based here. He's originally from Sheffield, Iowa which is near Mason City.
4:56 Steve likes Iowa but all of it seems the same to him. It's consistent. Steve likes going to visit The Nadas in Des Moines to rehearse but he's always happy to leave. There's just enough going on there to keep him interested for a few days.
4:57 It's weird to have a downtown area where all the parking is free on the weekend. They just raise the gates in the parking lots and garages and you can pull in. There were so many spaces that Steve didn't know where to park.
4:58 That makes tailgating much easier though. Steve never tailgated in Iowa but he did go to a Hawkeyes game where he ate a big ass turkey leg. They sell them right on that street that leads up to the stadium.
4:59 Brendan doesn't know the name of the street even though he went to school there for 6 years. They eat very well back in Iowa. Steve went to several good restaurants in Des Moines including the Flying Mango.
5:00 The Nadas told Steve that Flying Mango was a great barbecue place but it was. The Nadas just thought it was so cool and quirky that it was called the Flying Mango.
5:01 Dick's new album is called Weightless and it's available on his website.
5:02 Dick performs Halfway to Hollywood.
5:05 It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell and not a moment too soon. Today Steve's having the original taco with mild sauce, just keeping it real.
5:10 Steve polished off a few originals during the break and his strength is back up to where it needs to be.
5:11 Dick will be playing with the full band at Schubas' on Saturday but he sounds fine on his own.
5:12 When Steve was in Des Moines he stayed at the nicest hotel in town and they didn't even have anyone to come out and get his bags when he arrived.
5:13 There was one guy working at the hotel when Steve arrived and he was just sitting behind the desk reading the paper.
5:14 The hotel was very nice though. Steve's room was next to a private courtyard shared by another room. The people thought it was their private courtyard so they had their blinds open and were naked in there. It saved Steve a ton of money because he didn't have to rent any porn.
5:15 The last time Dick stayed in a hotel in Iowa there were several very large women, stripped down, in the hot tub.
5:16 Dick performs B & W.
5:20 Steve was wondering if Dick was going to play The Cornflake Song next. He will.
5:27 Live read: Townstone Financial
5:28 Dick Prall is here, he'll be playing with his band on Saturday at Schubas'. Are they called The Prallers or anything like that?
5:29 Dick has his website as well as MySpace which is a great site for musicians. He's pretty much based out of his web space.
5:30 Dick performs The Cornflake Song.
5:36 Dick gets a lot of requests for that song. It's been picked as the single for the album and Glen Phillips is singing background vocals. See Buzz, Steve has the golden ear.
5:37 Pete laughed at the golden ear comment. What's he laughing at?!
5:44 Buzz watched Californication once and decided that's not how he wants his David Duchovny. He was an X-Files freak.
5:45 This is the only thing Steve has ever liked him in, except maybe Zoolander.
5:46 Live read: Gierczyk Properties
5:47 Bob and Ron are here. Bob is fully supporting the Andrew Meyer. Can Ron talk to Bob about this sort of stuff? We talked about that 3 hours ago.
5:48 If Bob wants to just come in and tell Steve he heard the show that's fine but don't bring it up on the air. They both pop their heads in anyway, even though Steve has set it all up so he can hide from them.
5:49 Bob and Ron by creep Steve out. They're both filthy and have shifty eyes and dilated pupils.
5:50 Are Bob and Ron just super stoned today? Steve just talked to a guy he doesn't even know and that went fine. Now he's talking to these two and he'd known them for 10 years.
5:51 Steve's going to suspend this segment until the ship can be righted. He thought it was fine but now he's mad again. It's not a bad mad, it's a never-seeing-them-again mad.
5:52 Those two need to get their buzz under control though. They didn't see high to Buzz, maybe that's the problem.
5:53 Alright let's try this again, hey Bob and Ron! How about that kid who got tased?
5:54 Bob and Ron don't even know how to respond which is exactly how Steve wants them. He wants them scared and Rex Grossman-like. They're normally like that but sometimes Steve has to beat it into them.
5:55 Steve has to knock them down sometimes but he's sorry everyone had to hear it. But Bob just says something and suddenly everyone is supposed to follow? What kind of world is that?
5:56 Steve's going to make Bob walk him as punishment and he better bring a big bag.
6:02 Alright Bob and Ron are here. Are they just going to act like Steve hasn't talked to them yet? Everything is fine, no worries.
6:03 Today it's Mama Cass' birthday. She did not die from choking on a ham sandwich but she did die in Harry Nilsson's flat where Keith Moon later died. By flat, Bob means apartment.
6:04 If she didn't choke on a ham sandwich then how did she die? There was a ham sandwich found near her body although that seems unlikely. It doesn't seem like there'd be any sandwiches within 5 miles of her.
6:05 Harry Nilsson eventually killed himself with excess but not before he and Steve partied in LA. Steve could have drunk him under the table if it weren't for the mushrooms. He wants to be stimulated not psychadelicized.
6:06 And speaking of psychadelicized Jimi Hendrix passed away this week in 1970. That was a nice transition Ron. Bob is just holding him back, can't he see that?
6:07 An urban legend arose surrounding the death of Mama Cass. Police found a half-eaten sandwich next to her body and theorized that she may have choked on it. However no food was found in her trachea.
6:08 Jimi Hendrix' career only last 4 years but he made it count. The Beatles weren't around for much longer though.
6:09 Sometimes it's better to have a short career instead of burning out. Imagine if Jimi Hendrix was still alive today, playing the Potowatomi Casino? Dig it.
6:10 Also this week, Jimi Hendrix arrived in New York in 1967. And a real New York street kid was also born this week, Dee Dee Ramone. Bob tried to do a transition there but it didn't happen.
6:11 Song: Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio, The Ramones
6:14 Right on dudes. That song was from an album produced by Phil Spector. Is that the song that he had to pull a gun on Dee Dee?
6:15 There are so many gun pulling incidents that Bob and Ron aren't sure. This is their version of "I don't know". Bob thinks it happen when they were recording a Phil Spector song for the album.
6:16 Bob is surprised that Spector pulled a gun on The Ramones because they seem pretty dangers in their own right.
6:17 The Ramones weren't tough, they were panty-waists. They all seemed like soft little mama's boys or drug addicts. Being a drug addict at home works out pretty well though, your mom does everything for you.
6:23 Ben Gay is here, como estas amigo?! It's a pleasure to be here as always although Ben doesn't like running into those two potheads in the hallway. They make Ben want women.
6:24 Buzz wants to know if Ben is on the Cubs bandwagon. He's always been a Cubs fan, he was reared in Wrigleyville. He's a big fan of the Bears as well. He's not a Sox fan, he's had some bad things happen to him in the Bridgeport area, they're very intolerant. Jimbo's sounds like a gay bar but it's not. You go in there and it's all guys and women who look like guys. Next thing you know you're being beaten with a pool cue.
6:25 Ted Lilly takes the mound on three days rest as the Cubs look to take the series from the Reds. 30-year old rookie Tom Shearn takes the mound for the Red Legs.
6:26 The Brewers are at Houston tonight. Dave Bush pitches for Milwaukee against Juan Gutierrez. You'd think Miller would have made Dave Bush change his last name.
6:27 Brewers ace Ben Sheets returned to Milwaukee today to recieve and MRI on his injured left hamstring. Ben would like to get Ben Sheets between the sheets.
6:28 That's good for the Cubs if Ben Sheets is out although Milwaukee did fine without him earlier in the season.
6:29 The White Sox take on the Royals in Kansas City tonight. Jose Contreras takes the mound against Brian Bannister, no relation to Floyd.
6:30 Rookie tight end Greg Olsen will play on Sunday against the Cowboys and QB Rex Grossman thinks the team is going to turn things around. Which team remains to be seen.
6:31 In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Chicago Bear Roberto Garza traveled to Pilsen to visit a community center that most serves Hispanic families. You know why, because Pilsen is a mostly Hispanic neighborhood.
6:32 Chicago Blackhawks first round draft pick Patrick Kane will make his NHL debut tonight in an exhibition game. Denis Savard said he has dazzled in practice. Kane is 18, that's legal right?
6:33 The NFL fined Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens $75,000 for Sunday's touchdown dance in which he mocked the Patriots cheating scandal.
6:34 Barry Bonds said that the person who bought his 756th home run ball, clothing designer Mark Ecko, is stupid. Ecko is allowing fans to vote online about whether he should give the ball to the Hall of Fame, brand it with an asterisk or shoot it into space. Who cares if he has the money?
6:35 A kiss on the sidelines of at the University of Florida is creating quite a stir. Safety Tony Joiner kissed QB Tim Tebow below the ear after a second quarter touchdown.
6:36 Who cares? We can watch grown men trying to kill each other for 3 years but two of them kiss and it's a big deal?
6:45 That Ryno is a wacky one. He's a talking coffee table.
6:46 News with Buzz
6:47 OJ is out of jail after posting $125,000 in bail. Steve thinks he had to post the entire amount too.
6:48 The president of Iran is coming to the UN this weekend. He wanted to visit the 9/11 memorial but was denied permission. Meanwhile Mitt Romney wants him arrested and indicted for war crimes when he arrives.
6:49 The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial is considering giving the jury further instructions to make sure there is no deadlock.
6:50 The Washington DC couple sued by a judge for losing his suit pants will close their business. Although they've gotten a lot of support it has not helped their business.
6:51 A not guilty plea has been entered by all 4 men accused of robbing NBA player Antoine Walker at his River North home.
6:52 Mayor Daley unveiled a new logo for the Chicago Olympic bid and he wants the world to know Chicago is a world class city.
6:53 Steve likes the new logo, they couldn't use the previous logo because it had a torch on it.
6:54 With the mayor was Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersey who was even more excited than Daley.
6:55 The new logo features a 6-pointed star like the ones features on the Chicago flag. Steve doesn't know what those stars mean though so that might have been a good starting point for Daley.
7:00 Do we have time to talk about the Chicago flag or should we wait until tomorrow? Buzz thinks we should wait just because it's fertile ground.
7:01 Does Buzz have a dinner date or something? There is a lot of stuff so maybe we should wait. Steve's trying to call down to Jim but his phone isn't working.
7:02 Jim always answers the phone like he doesn't know what Steve is talking about. It's a very showbiz thing, very Bob Newhart. Steve likes it though.
7:03 As it turns out there's a lot of stuff about the flag so we should probably wait until tomorrow. There is a concern that someone else will do the flag stuff before Steve but it won't be as good.
7:04 Matt and Brendan weren't planning on talking about the flag tonight so Steve should be good. Even if they were Steve could make them not talk about it by charging Matt for more rent.

 

 

Bee Pollen
The Little Guys