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		Thursday, October 4, 2007



2:02	It seems unnecessarily erotic for Stan to say that the Steve Dahl Show is steaming ahead. Terry's wondering if Steve stayed up late and watched the Cubbies. Is Terry hungover?
2:03	Terry was hungover but he worked through it with a lot of water. It sounds like Terry has been doing bad blow for 72 hours. Is it just Steve or does Buzz hear it?
2:04	It's like Terry is laying on the ground and there's a microphone dangling over him, along with a taco. That's a technique Steve pioneered. You have to put some newspaper down first.
2:05	Terry is sitting upright now that Steve has called attention to him. Steve did stay up and watch the game. Terry was wondering how the broadcast went because it seemed like no one in Arizona was listening to it.
2:06	Is Terry interviewing Steve right now for the paper? Steve doesn't really like Dick Stockton for starters. He doesn't like to think of him having his way with Leslie Visser.
2:07	Frank Thomas was pretty good in the post-game. Of course when you're on with Cal Ripken Jr., Mr. Excitement, everyone looks better. Stan was impressed that Frank Thomas predicted that the game would come down to the bullpen. Most games come down to the bullpen but it's cool that Stan was impressed by it.
2:08	Terry's not sure where his articles are in the paper. It could be in the main section, it could be in Metro, it could be in Sports.
2:09	Terry's article is on page 26, right across from the Personals. That's not really good placement is it?
2:10	Terry didn't have to write very much and he got a trip to Arizona with full credentials. One day he hopes Steve can exploit that scam.
2:11	The Tribune sends a bunch of people out to Arizona to do fan pieces but it ends up that there are too many guys so it's only a few people doing work.
2:12	Terry's trying to track down that guy who had the neon Cubs sign behind home plate. That guy was the most irritating person Steve has ever seen. Why would Terry even want to talk to that guy? He makes all of us back here look like idiots.
2:13	That shrimpy guy in the muscle shirt was standing up for the entire game even though he was in the front row. Then he finally turned the neon sign on and they had to stop the game. Then he gets on the phone to see if he's on TV and spills his beer. He's an idiot.
2:14	When Terry talks to him he should tell him he's an idiot from Steve. Stan would have beaned the batter if he was the Diamondbacks pitcher.
2:15	Steve doesn't want to go all baseball analyst but in that situation do you want to put the tying run on base? You just want to get that last out.
2:19	Is the guy with the neon sign last night the same guy with the full neon thing at Sox or Bears games?
2:20	Pete thinks it might be the same guy. Steve used to think he was cool when he was in the bleachers but he looked like a chach last night in the muscle shirt.
2:21	So he doesn't really care which team he's rooting for, he just needs attention. Hence the muscle shirt. We should all start wearing muscle shirts. You'd think being behind home plate would be enough for him.
2:22	He wasn't right behind home plate but it seemed like he was in the best seat in the house. It was even better than Muhammad Ali's seat. The only better seat in that stadium is in the hot tub with a chick.
2:23	You'd think he'd just be happy with that seat but apparently not. Do they still have the hot tub because they didn't show it once on TV last night. On Fox they keep showing you that.
2:24	Steve didn't think TBS' coverage was spectacular. Pete's with Steve, he doesn't like Dick Stockton for any sports. It's also really wrong that he had sex with Leslie Visser. He looks like a creepy old man you'd see in a health club sauna.
2:25	Ron Darling did alright but he doesn't like his look. He looks too pretty. He'd make a great transvestite though. If Ron Darling were a street walker and you picked him up you'd still go through with it once you found out he was a guy.
2:26	You should probably keep him away from Danny Bonaduce. He's had trouble sorting out what's what in the past. The Adam's Apple is key though, girl's don't have them.
2:27	Steve can call Jim and bring him in on this later but there's no reason to second-guess Lou Piniella. No matter what he does, if they lose, people are going to second-guess him.
2:28	That Carlos Marmol guy is good, it seemed like a slam dunk to bring him in. All year they had the starters going 6 innings, then Lou brought in Marmol. And they're in the playoffs. Meanwhile the White Sox are setting up golf tee times and getting hammered at Bennigan's.
2:29	It's probably a tough transition between being away from home all season and then coming back for the off-season. It's probably a week of faking like you're glad to be home, then you start golfing, then golfing and Bennigan's, then golfing, Bennigan's and strip clubs. Then next thing you know it's Spring Training.
2:30	Steve calls down to the newsroom. Pete's not angry about Lou's decision but he's upset about the loss. It wasn't really a blow-out though so that's something. If you have 2 outs in the 9th inning and the tying run at the plate that's a good game.
2:31	Jim isn't second-guessing Lou either. He seemed to be mad that people were questioning him which is why he's such a cool guy. It's only the first game and game 2 is tonight. It seems like the DIamondbacks brought their best game last night. Brandon Webb is definitely their best pitcher too.
2:32	The Sox lost game 1 of the ALDS to the Angels at home. Pete reminds Steve it was in the ALCS that they lost game 1. How could Steve forget about the ALDS? They swept the Red Sox! Those games were on the daytime so it was hard to follow.
2:33	People expect you to lose a game on the road anyway. Ted Lilly pitches really well after a Cubs loss so it was probably part of the plan. Steve was surprised that Zambrano came out after 85 pitches but he hasn't really followed the team all year.
2:34	Lou said he was saving Zambrano for game 4 but there might not be a game 4. They did only score 1 run and it's hard to win when you only score 1 and the other team scores 1 run and then more runs.
2:35	It sounds like Jim has his allergies under control. He took Steve's advice and got some Alavert. Did he crush it up and snort it like Steve told him to do?
2:36	It's Thursday which means it's time for Music Snob Corner with our own Pete Zimmerman, production director of the Steve Dahl Show. Yesterday he was accused by the Hungry Hound of being a 42-year old woman for eating Lean Cuisines. That even hurt Buzz.
2:37	There's not much of a difference, calorie-wise, between the Lean Cuisine and the regular Stouffer's dinners. Plus it looks more manly in your shopping cart.
2:38	When did the Diamondbacks change their uniforms? Steve does like their coiled-snake-in-a-D logo. Pete was really annoyed by the Diamondbacks fans, especially the ones holding up the 1908 balloons.
2:39	Steve tried to go online this morning and get NLCS tickets for Pete and Jim. He was in the waiting room for a while but by the time he got out of that they only had scattered tickets available.
2:40	Steve doesn't want to fixate on this but all those White Sox ALDS games were during the day. Steve was broadcasting from Pancho Pistolas too. They lost game one of the ALCS but were guaranteed to win because the Angels were tired. When will we learn?
2:41	It seems unnecessary to second-guess Lou Piniella though. There was even a poll on the front of the Sun-Times website today asking people why they thought the Cubs lost. They lost because the Diamondbacks scored 3 runs and the Cubs only scored 1.
2:42	Pete's just glad we have the Dane Cook commercials to remind us about past playoff moments. That's another guy who wears those muscle shirts.
2:43	Much like Joe Piscopo, Dane Cook is muscular and not funny. Carrot Top is the same way. Buzz feels Carrot Top is the funniest of that group which isn't saying much.
2:44	Pete's wondering if Steve will eventually embrace muscle shirts, the way he eventually embraced flip-flops.
2:45	The Diamondbacks changed their uniforms this season. D-Backs on the uniform seems informal though but they're very laidback in Arizona.
2:46	Steve caught some great pre-game coverage on Comcast yesterday with Len Kaspar and Gail Fischer. They were set up right in the concourse with no backdrop.
2:47	Eventually people realized they were on live TV and people, grown men, started walking behind the set to get on TV. It's scary to see the same guy, a grown man, walk back and forth behind them 20 times talking on his phone.
2:48	There were some monstrosities walking behind them too, it looked like a Sox game. It was as if something had wandered in from the desert. And the guys were all dorks.
2:49	It was mostly Cubs fans who must have recognized Len Kaspar. There were a few Diamondbacks fans but they weren't as vocal. It's still creepy to see adults doing stuff like that.
2:50	Pete did see a Cubs fan holding a sign that said "Wrigleyville in the Dessert", misspelling desert. It's being pointed out to Steve that by Ron Lewis, who was too busy to talk to Steve earlier but apparently isn't now, that he and Garry rode bicycles behind Jim Rose when he reported from Baltimore in 1983.
2:51	1983 is a little different though. There were no cellphones or cameraphones or whatever. Steve sees his point but he and Garry are professionals and they were trying to promote themselves. Why does Ron have to remember stuff like that? Who's he defending? Was that a relative of his walking behind Len and Gail?
2:52	Steve doesn't really remember it but he knows they did something. Ron would have to call in and remind him. It was a different era although not so different that Ron wouldn't remember.
2:53	Ron Lewis is on the phone. He doesn't remember the kind of bikes they were riding but it was funny. Is Ron maybe confusing Joe Gaspar and Big Steve on a rickshaw behind a Nesita Kwan with Steve and Garry on a bike?
2:54	Ron remembers Tim Weigel finally noticing Steve and Garry and telling Jim to tell them to cut it out. What's with all the historical accuracy though? 1983?! Steve doesn't even know when that was! This isn't the Senate, we don't need to be historically accurate!
3:00	There was an ad during that break for a spider vein medicine. We have a lot of that kind of stuff on which doesn't seem like a good sign. It reminded Steve of the spider in Buzz's TV.
3:01	Buzz hasn't seen the spider since yesterday morning. Didn't Buzz have a cat in his wall at one point? Now he has a spider in his TV.
3:02	That was the cat that was usually in the cupboard but it was in the wall for about a day. He had some people over doing plumbing work and had to put a hole in the wall. When they were done they sealed the hole up.
3:03	He got home looking for the cat and heard muffled meowing. The whole thing was hauntingly reminiscent of the death of one of his birds as a kid. The bird used to fly around the house and one day it went missing.
3:04	For 3 days Buzz heard the bird chirping but couldn't figure out where it was. Then about 4 months later a curious Buzz peered behind the sing and there was Tweety, solid as a rock.
3:05	So there's Buzz calling for his cat, who's name he can't repeat on the air, and all he hears are the cat's distressed, muffled cries. It dawned on him what happened so he opened the wall up by himself. He had to, he's Buzz Kilman, Cat Rescuer.
3:06	After Ron Lewis called in about the Jim Rose thing, Dan Falato called him. Why doesn't Dan just call in directly? Dan said John Roach was also there and Garry grabbed a bike to ride around on behind Jim Rose.
3:07	Then Ron adds that the bit is over but he just wanted to let him know. Steve will decide when the bit is over.
3:08	Why doesn't Dan just call in? Steve would like to ask him about Mark Grace anyway. Steve read something either online or in the paper about the Mark Grace thing. His only comment was that the Diamondbacks pay him and he doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him.
3:09	If Mark were a little cagier he could figure out a way to get paid twice. If it was Rick Sutcliffe he'd probably figure out a way to maneuver it. Steve finds it unsettling though since Mark was sort of the face of the franchise for a while.
3:10	Pete didn't like hearing that one bit. He just got invited back to the Cubs Convention this year. It seems like he could just chant "Go Diamondbacks" or something.
3:11	Steve wouldn't want to see Aaron Rowand saying something bad about the White Sox. It doesn't really apply here though. The Phillies lost yesterday too. MLB would probably love a Rockies/Diamondbacks NLCS.
3:12	Steve hopes everything works out for the Cubs. He was disappointed for Pete that they lost last night. Pete's worried about tonight but he's always worried.
3:13	Doug Davis, who's pitching for the Diamondbacks tonight, is a notorious Cub-killer. Is it just Steve or does everyone on the Diamondbacks have fake radio names? Steve would have to check their roster but that's what it seems like.
3:14	Alright today's song is by Spoon but it doesn't tie in. Steve likes them though. They'll be on SNL this week with host Seth Rogen.
3:15	Song: You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb, Spoon
3:18	That's a good song. Steve likes Spoon and spoons. Buzz had no idea Steve was such a big Spoon listener. He finds that unusual. Steve also prefers to eat with a spoon.
3:19	Steve shows Buzz that Spoon is in his iTunes. If Steve could eat everything with a spoon he would. Buzz knows what he means. Everything is good with a spoon.
3:20	Buzz has different spoons for different things and they're all his. Steve just likes a regular spoon. If he has time he'll cut up everything he eats to a size that allows him to eat it with a spoon.
3:24	Steve was just saying he's familiar with the work of Spoon. He just has their last album on his iTunes. He's seen them on TV though.
3:25	Buzz only mentioned it because he had never heard of them. Buzz likes to think that he keeps up on some of the music the kids are listening too but he's probably just diluting himself. Buzz might have heard one of their other songs from the new album.
3:26	Pete says the single was The Underdog. Is it a bad thing that it's a single? Buzz isn't familiar with the song but he'd like to hear it anyway. Another popular song was The Way We Get By.
3:27	Song: The Underdog, Spoon
3:30	Buzz hadn't heard that song but he liked it. It sounded way too mainstream for Pete though. That's why he was sort of distancing himself from it by pointing out it was the single.
3:31	The Way We Get By was on the Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack. That might be where Steve heard it. The guy from Spoon did a lot of the music for the movie.
3:32	Stranger Than Fiction might be Steve's favorite Will Ferrell movie because it's not dopey. It's a good performance and he's funny in it.
3:33	Lance Briggs was sentenced to court supervision, just like Steve. Steve didn't abandon his Lamborghini on the side of the road though.
3:34	A woman was found shot to death this morning in a home in Deerfield which forced the lockdown of a nearby school. A resident of Deerfield said that the suspect looked like a good-looking, well-dressed black man. We're getting a lot of reports about who it might be but until it's substantiated Steve's not saying anything.
3:38	On the phone is William Jackson from Comcast Sportsnet. Today is when they focus on the defense on Bears Blitz.
3:39	Right now the Bears are still in control and can come back but they need to start with a win Sunday. It's a must-win game for Steve.
3:40	Steve was wondering-and he doesn't want to put Billy on the spot-if Ron Turner was a Lovie Smith guy. He was here before so it seems like he's more of a McCaskey guy.
3:41	Steve got the feeling that Lovie took Ron Turner aside this week and told him they're going to do it his way. People have been wondering why Hester hasn't been in on offense more or why Olsen isn't being used more often.
3:42	Lovie seems like the kind of guy who's really easy-going but when he gets mad you don't want to be around him. If you have Lovie Smith yelling at you you've really done something wrong.
3:43	The Packers have been on a roll since that New Year's Eve game in Chicago. They've won 5 straight games. Steve feels that if you're going to cry like Bret Favre did on national TV you need to retire.
3:44	No one is saying for sure if Tillman and Vasher will play on Sunday either. Both of them are still not at 100%
3:45	Steve's not giving Billy Jack the heave-ho, he just has to go on the air at 4:00. Steve could talk to Billy Jack all day because he knows his stuff.
3:46	Live read: WCIU
3:47	Steve didn't really talk Cubs with Billy Jack but we've already covered them already. It does seem like a mistake to second-guess Lou Piniella. If they lose, no matter what he does, he's going to be second-guessed.
3:48	It's a five game series and take it from Steve, you don't want it to be over yet. You don't want it to go by that fast, stretch it out, enjoy it.
3:55	Ron Santo was just looking for a bottle of water during the game last night and then that guy on the Diamondbacks hit a home run. It happens when you least suspect it. Does Pete have the audio of that too? That sort of seems like the payoff.
3:56	Pete really shouldn't edit things based on his own agenda because his agenda is too weird. You have to go with Steve and Buzz's agenda. They're here until 7:00, they have nowhere else to go.
3:57	Steve's very excited that his new ATM card allows him to get $500 instead of $300. Steve had to get a new one because the machine here scratched up his card so it was unusable. $500 is the most you can get from your non-Las Vegas ATMs.
3:58	Buzz frequently uses an ATM outside a gas station. He feels very vulnerable getting hundreds of dollars from the ATM. If he were an aspiring hoodlum he'd hang out at that gas station.
3:59	Pete replays the audio but it ends right after the home run is hit. He's really doling it out today. What about the "OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO"?
4:00	Earlier in the broadcast Steve was making fun of the people at the Cubs game last night walking behind the Comcast pre-game show. Len Kaspar and Gail Fischer were set-up in the concourse at Chase Field.
4:01	Once people realized they were taping something they walked up and starting waving and trying to get on TV. Steve thought he let go with a nice rant about adults doing that but then Ron Lewis reminded him about the time he and Garry did the same thing in Baltimore in 1983 when Jim Rose was reporting.
4:02	Steve thought it was different since it was 1983 and there was no internet or anything and they were just trying to get free advertising for the show.
4:03	One day Ron might be in that club of people who don't work for Steve any more and get together to talk about how much they don't like him. Never mind the fact that those people wouldn't know each other if they hadn't worked for Steve.
4:04	Steve imagines Pete will be in that club one day too. He and Ron might be in it already or at least they might be pledging the club already.
4:05	As it turns out we have the audio of Steve and Garry wandering around behind Jim Rose. It's a coordinated on-air effort!
4:06	Steve sounds drunk. Did he just call Garry "babe"? Steve called Jim Rose "babe too. It must have been his Babe Period.
4:07	What's with calling everyone babe? Steve feels that pre-dates Dennis Miller. Steve learned it as a kid because he's friends dad worked for Chuck Barris. He called everyone babe. Steve must have been hammered to be saying it that much.
4:08	Steve's on the road, doing an afternoon show, you lay down a nice base of crab cakes and then get hammered. As he recalls it, they didn't even go to the White Sox game. They just went back to the hotel room and watched it.
4:09	Headlines with Buzz
4:10	Larry Craig, he of the wide stance, remains guilty after a judge denied his bid to withdraw his guilty plea.
4:11	ABC is apologizing to the Philippines after an alleged slur on Desperate Housewives. Teri Hatcher's character implied that med schools in the Philippines aren't up to snuff.
4:12	What's wrong with that? ABC has apologized but there's a group of Philippinos who are refusing the apology. What if ABC said that the med schools in the Philippines are better than the ones in South America?
4:13	More bad news for Michael Vick, the Falcons want their $20 million back. Hopefully he has a good lawyer.
4:14	R. Kelly has lined up a 37 date tour just a month after having his trial postponed, again. He just keeps rolling, it doesn't seem to matter to him. He also has a best-selling album.
4:15	Larry Birkhead, father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, is close to signing a deal to star in a reality TV show.
4:16	The 43rd Chicago International Film Festival begins tonight. This year's festival is dedicated to Roger Ebert.
4:17	Steve has an update on the Deerfield shooting. Police still haven't arrested a suspect but there's no video of a resident saying the photo he was shown by police is that of a very well-to-do sports figure. It's someone Steve knows too but he can't say who it is. Buzz just hopes it's not Tyrone.
4:21	Tyrone is checking in. Did he really hear Buzz accuse him of murder? Just because he's a well-dressed black man and a former professional athlete.
4:22	Tyrone played basketball in Italy but that's still professional. He is involved in the manhunt for the perpetrator. Buzz didn't know he did that kind of work.
4:23	Tyrone was arrested as a suspect but now he's helping out to try to win some points from the people in the Deerfield area. A black man can never have too many things going in his favor in Lake County.
4:24	According to the neighbor of the woman who was killed police have been circulating a photo of a very well-dressed black man. Tyrone actually has a suspect in the back of his choptater.
4:25	If Buzz didn't know for sure that Terry Armour was in Arizona he'd think it was him. Is Terry really that well-dressed, or good-looking? He's more cute, like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
4:26	Tyrone does have some traffic to report. There's an accident at Naperville Road on I-88 in the express lane. It's back up 4 miles, that's f-o-u-r not f-o-r and you are SOL if you're on it.
4:27	Tyrone's going to wait and see if the suspect he has is who the police are looking for. Then maybe he'll offer Tyrone some money to take him up to Canada or something.
4:36	It's Thursday which means Steve is going to need a Taco Pal. He's planning ahead because he's built his day around eating the Cheesy Beefy Melt at 5:00.
4:37	Steve is starving and 5:00 will be the first chance for him to eat the Cheesy Beefy Melt.
4:38	Steve can't stress how important it is for him to have the Cheesy Beefy Melt at 5:00. You can go right now and eat a few Cheesy Beefy Melts before 5:00 but be on the phone at 5:00 to eat one with Steve.
4:39	Mary is very conceptual when it comes to the Five O'Clock Taco Bell so Steve won't be able to eat his Cheesy Beefy Melt until 5:00 when there's someone on the phone.
4:40	Even if there was a Cheesy Beefy Melt here right now Steve wouldn't be able to eat it.
4:41	Steve was just watching CLTV and even their reporter wanted to say who Deerfield police are looking for.
4:42	Shouldn't they be able to say who it is if the police are looking for this person? On the other hand it's kind of cool of the Deerfield police to not do that.
4:43	You wouldn't think something like this would happen in Deerfield. Buzz was just up there recently. Was he getting his drivers license with Terry Armour?
4:44	A lot of people are calling in asking Brendan who it is. If Steve's not going to tell you, Brendan won't either. But people are calling in to play 20 Questions with him.
4:45	It seems stupid but there are a lot of stupid people with phones. You don't have to take an IQ test to get a phone.
4:46	Buzz was wondering if we could start listing the people who aren't suspects. It's not Sid Luckman, it's not Ernie Banks, it's not Bobby Hull. We've already said he's a black guy. There aren't any black Blackhawks are there?
4:47	It's not Scottie Pippen but it would be crazy if it was. It could take forever to name all the people who aren't suspects but it was worth a try.
4:50	Steve still needs a Taco Pal for today. He wouldn't mind having one on hold at 4:55.
4:51	Time for some sports. The lead story is the Cubs not the Deerfield shooting. We don't know for sure who the police are looking for. So far 3 people have called to say who it is and a bunch more called to ask who it was. Then after Steve said that more people called in to ask who it was.
4:52	Ted Lilly takes the mound for the Cubs today in game 2 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Lilly says he doesn't feel any added pressure after last night's loss.
4:53	Carlos Zambrano has a new autobiography called The Big Z: the Carlos Zambrano Story.
4:54	The book details Zambrano's impoverished upbringing, his travails with sports and his relationship with his strict father.
4:55	Good news Buzz, Steve's Taco Pal is all ready to go. Buzz is glad to hear that, he's not sure if he could live with Steve if he didn't have a Taco Pal.
4:56	Rockies manager Clint Hurdle is downplaying reports of reliever Manny Corpas pouring water down the back and front of his jersey before coming into the game. Corpas, who earned the save, rubbed his fingers on his shirt.
4:57	The MIami Heat take naps together between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM everyday at American Airlines Arena, just like kindergartners.
4:58	Alright it's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell.
4:59	On the phone is Taco Pal Tom, he got the Cheesy Beefy Melt combo. He's got his daughter in the car so she'll have the taco and drink.
5:07	Caller Jeff was just driving eastbound on I-88. Tyrone reported an accident on there earlier. It was so backed up that people were backing their cars up to get off.
5:08	Everything is fine now except for the people who got into accidents backing their cars up.
5:09	Tyrone's checking in again. What's up with that white dude calling in? If there was still a problem he would report it! That's all he wanted to say really.
5:10	Tyrone still has a suspect in the back of his choptater and he's handcuffed. When they finally announce it he's gonna fly right in. Hopefully he makes it for the 6:00 news.
5:11	Tyrone doesn't stand out too well at night anyway. He'd rather it be something like Apocalypse Now when the choptater is coming in at sundown.
5:12	Tyrone will say he played college football with the suspect. It seems like only the football players murder people.
5:13	Caller Bob was working construction on I-88 today during the accident. Some guy was demanding that he turn the crane off because the carbon monoxide fumes were killing him.
5:14	When Bob refused the guy said he was going to call his lawyer. Can't he just turn the AC on and set it to recirculate the air? Or you could just turn off the giant crane.
5:15	Steve would be afraid to talk to a construction worker. Do they have hot women doing the signal work? Because that's always really distracting.
5:16	Steve has a feeling that a lot of those women are good from far and far from good. Bob can't really comment on that, they just finished up their sexual harassment training.
5:17	Caller Brian just wanted to let Steve know how effective the Five O'Clock Taco Bell is. He's been eating more Taco Bell in the last few months than he ever has in his life.
5:18	Steve has another Cheese Beefy Melt waiting for him but he has to see if the first one fills him up. He was told that it hadn't reached his stomach yet.
5:19	Live read: Townstone Financial
5:20	Steve has a song he wants to play here, a demo version of Carmelita by Warren Zevon. For some reason he can't get enough of the demo version. He was listening to it today while running, singing it out loud.
5:21	Then Steve realized that it must look weird for him to be running and singing "I'm all strung out on heroin on the outside of town."
5:22	Song: Carmelita, Warren Zevon
5:27	Nothing like singing that song while running through the neighborhood. They must think Steve is such a lovely young man. He could tell that the people knew it was Warren Zevon. He could read their lips.
5:28	Chef Hans is here and he's enjoying the weather. Is Steve practicing for the marathon? Steve runs for an hour in his neighborhood just to stave off being 300 pounds.
5:29	These days the only running Hans does is from his creditors. Does his nose run too, and his refrigerator?
5:30	S & W has 900 reservations for Sunday. Plus the Cubs could be playing game 4 so they'll probably get more. Hans is expecting the entire umpiring crew to come in.
5:31	Hans will probably get a couple of D-Backs. Sometimes during the playoffs the teammates stay together so they might all come into the backroom.
5:32	Generally speaking it doesn't seem like a good idea for the entire team to eat together. That just increases the risk of all of them getting food poisoning. Not that that would happen at Smith & Wollensky.
5:33	Last Sunday Hans met Thabo Sefolosha of the Bulls. He's also a Swiss-born athlete. Hans and Thabo decided that the two of them and Roger Federer should do a Nike commercial together. Or even better a K-Swiss commercial.
5:34	Hans is a little worried about the Cubs. They only lost 1 game, there's still more to play. Doesn't Hans feed Lou Piniella? It seems like he might be feeding him too much.
5:39	Lou can't really tell the press to be positive. They don't have to respond to it like the team would. Maybe they should though.
5:40	Time for some Meat Talk. The first emailer thinks the segment is great whether they're talking about Lou Piniella, meat or the Bears. Hans normally goes up to Green Bay for the Bears game but this year it falls on the day of the marathon.
5:41	They have 900 reservations on Sunday for the marathon and it seems like a lot of them are foreigner to Hans. By foreigners does he mean Americans?
5:42	The emailer was at S & W recently and asked the waitress about Chef Hans. Then Hans came over to the table and talked to everyone. He showed the table how to test the doneness of meat and then told a joke about the difference between medium and rare. He can't tell it on the air though.
5:43	That's not really a question, just some praise. There's nothing wrong with that, let's keep it positive gang.
5:44	The next emailer wants to know what kind of a cut a Delmonico steak is. It's a smaller ribeye, the beginning of a ribeye. They're served at the Delmonico Hotel right?
5:45	On a side note does Hans prefer steak with a marinade or on it's own? For prime meat S & W only prepares it with salt and pepper. If you're getting meat at a grocery store you might want to marinate a little.
5:46	The next emailer heard a rumor that Top Chef is filming around Chicago. Has Hans been approached as a judge for an episode?
5:47	Hans has not been approached. He has a face for radio, not television. Steve thinks he's quite handsome, he's seen him on TV before.
5:55	Mark Czerniec, director of information services, is on the phone from Steve Dahl corporate headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin in a building shaped like Buzz. It was not easy to build either. Frank Lloyd Wright started it, then Mies van der Rohe worked on it and finally Helmut Jahn finished it off. Architecturally and structurally it's hard to replicate a beard. People come from all around to see it
5:57	Last night the finale, part 2, aired on Top Chef. That Hung guy won. Then next week they'll reunite and talk about the show.
5:58	The kid with the mohawk is from Chicago and he didn't win. Also the girl, Casey, didn't win. She had a bad night actually.
5:59	The thing that almost won it for the kid from Chicago was the Colorado lamb. He'd never used it before and prepared it perfectly. It was so perfect that Ted Allen, of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, told him he was a "decadent boy"
6:00	The announcement of the winners was taped live in Chicago. Casey knew she wasn't going to win but she showed up anyway.
6:01	Apparently they're filming season 4 of Top Chef in Chicago. So maybe Chef Hans will be asked in as a guest judge.
6:02	That's exciting for Mark because he'll get to read all about the Padma Lakshmi sightings around town.
6:03	No one liked Hung's dessert of chocolate raspberry cake though. They said it was pedestrian. Even Ted Allen didn't like it.
6:04	The winner gets $100,000, conceivably for starting up their own restaurant. Of course first the government gets some of that to start up their own restaurant. So you probably don't have much left.
6:05	As far as Mark knows they haven't officially named a suspect. He was just going to ask Steve about it.
6:06	Steve is prepared to do the news but he doesn't have any audio. Maybe Jim could bring that in?
6:07	Jim really takes his time once he gets into the studio. He's tip-toeing around like the Pink Panther. It didn't really take that long, Steve's just giving him a hard time to take his mind off the Cubs.
6:08	News with Buzz
6:09	All of the trapped miners in South Africa have been rescued. How did that happen? Did they just open up a locked door or something/
6:10	White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is saying the U.S. does not torture captives. She wouldn't comment on any techniques the U.S. used, fearing that enemies would find ways to train against it.
6:11	Can't they just tell us what they're doing? People want to try this stuff at home.
6:12	San Diego (greatest city in the world) is under a state of emergency after landslides in La Jolla.
6:13	Atlantic City's mayor is missing. No one has seen him for a week and now there's a power vacuum. The city's business administrator, Domenic Cappella, appointed himself as acting mayor. Cappela says mayor Bob Levy transferred power to him.
6:14	Billboard.com is reporting that Britney Spears new single was downloaded 174,000 times this week.
6:15	Steve's going to alert Buzz to something on Mark's page but he doesn't want him to read it.
6:16	Our own Jim kid has sent Mark Czerniec some internet gossip which he then posted on his page about this Deerfield thing. What's wrong with Jim? Steve knows the Cubs lost but it's just the first game!
6:17	Steve calls down to the newsroom. What's Jim doing down there? Doesn't he have something else to do other than send Mark IM gossip? And of course he's going to post it, he's just sitting up there in Racine.
6:18	Jim didn't think Mark was going to post the information, he just thought it was something funny to send him. Mark posts everything, then he attributes the info to whoever he got it from.
6:19	Steve is hoping that the person in question isn't the suspect. He just saw him a few weeks ago and he seemed really happy. Things can change in a day though.
6:20	It seems like if the police are looking for this guy they should tell everyone who it is. He's pretty recognizable isn't he?
6:21	Is Jim just worried about the Cubs? They only lost one game. They'll be fine tonight, Steve feels good about it. Of course he felt good about last night too and they lost. But they should be fine.
6:22	Jim might think he has nothing to lose but he does. Mark might just be looking to take some time off for the fall planting, then he'll just pick up with the next show that comes on the air when Steve and Buzz are gone.
6:28	Steve was just told that a certain news radio station is reporting that the suspect is not who everything thinks it is. Steve doesn't really want to say that it's not who everyone thinks it is. It seems unfair to that person.
6:29	Steve's off the Deerfield murder investigation. Buzz is wondering if it would be bad for the person if you said who it was.
6:30	Here's what Steve has from WBBM-AM. 32-year old Ronnie Reuter has been identified as the victim in today's shooting in Deerfield. Shaun Gayle has been identified as the woman's boyfriend and the father of her baby.
6:31	Gayle has been at the police station all day today and they stressed that he is not a suspect.
6:32	Tyrone's checking in. All day long he's had Cedric Benson in the back of the choptater and he didn't do nothing. And not just that he didn't do nothing in the Lions game either.
6:33	Could Tyrone giving Cedric a talking to before Sunday's game? He might tie him to a rope and pull him behind the choptater for a little bit.
6:34	Steve saw Shaun Gayle at the Chiefs/Bears game and he seemed fine then. It's good to know that he's not being charged but it's too bad what happened.
6:35	Steve has the menu from the Chiefs/Bears game. It would probably be inappropriate to read it right? Buzz thinks so.
6:42	Steve doesn't remember what that drop was from. It was a hostage situation and the guy would only give him up to Russ Ewing.
6:43	There was a time when Russ Ewing was the go-to guy for people to surrender themselves to. Steve's not sure who it is now though. Is it Dan Ponce? Or maybe Jerry Taft? If Buzz got in trouble he'd turn himself in to Jerry Taft.
6:44	Steve would probably turn himself in to Cheryl Burton but he'd want to be comforted by her beforehand. Or maybe he'd turn himself in to Brant Miller and make a nice weather photo out of it.
6:45	Steve's sorry to hear about all that stuff happening to Shaun Gayle though. Police are stressing that he is not a suspect though.
6:46	Buzz is right, it probably would be inappropriate for Steve to read the menu. He does remember what Shaun Gayle ate though. He was also talking to Steve's Japanese buddy Shu.
6:47	Steve actually just got an email from Shu who's over in Japan right now. He just signed up for the NFL online package so he could watch the road games on his computer.
6:48	Shu woke up at 1:30 AM on Sunday morning, Tokyo time, to watch the Bears game. That has to be depressing, waking up at 1:30 AM and watching that game.
6:49	Shu is a Bears fan for sure but it seems like he likes everything we do here. He's partial to the White Sox but he likes the Cubs as well. Steve's goal is to get him into hockey this year.
6:50	Shu also had to make a presentation to some co-workers and he mentioned how the Bears are struggling and how they shouldn't struggle at work.
6:51	Shu also said he almost got caught up in analyzing the game in the meeting. Steve can only imagine what that would have been like. He would probably want to be venting, in Japanese, about the game.
6:52	Buzz has a story to read from Japan. It's a tiny peak into the culture. A disgruntled Japanese employee smashed up his office after his boss didn't use a gift of jellies he had given him. Why doesn't Buzz ever give Steve jellies?
6:53	They're really hardcore about work in Japan. The highlight of Buzz's trip over there was seeing employees going out drinking with their bosses. You can get as hammered as you want and say whatever you want to your boss and the next day all is forgiven.
6:59	Matt Dahl has a photo with Shaun Gayle on his website. Steve feels bad for him, his girlfriend and baby were killed today.
7:00	Steve has some other info that Matt might want to track down though. According to the Arizona Republic Steve Bartman will be the guest of Phoenix radio station at tonight's Cubs game.
7:01	Brendan thinks it's a hoax. It seems like Bartman runs from all that but maybe he has a new look. Maybe he was the guy behind home plate last night.
7:02	Brendan thinks that if Steve Bartman did come out of hiding he'd do an interview with Bob Costas or something.
7:03	They're trying to make that guy from last night the new Bartman but he didn't really do anything. He didn't affect the outcome of the game. Plus he had the neon light on while the Cubs were up.