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| 5:31
| Goooooooooooood morning Buzz, how are you today? Buzz is just fine actually. |
| 5:32
| This good news is just in from Carmen Figueroa, who might manage the building. The tulips have been pulled from around Prudential Plaza. In an effort to recycle them they'll be placed in the south lobby for people to take home. |
| 5:33
| Then you take them home and plant them yourself right? Can't they just leave them where they are and use them again next year? Maybe they don't have enough room in their planters. |
| 5:34
| Steve doesn't know much about gardening and he doesn't want to know. He doesn't want to get down on the ground and bend over and plant the garden. But he likes when it's done because it looks nice. |
| 5:35
| Steve's punishment for not helping with the garden is to hear how sore Janet will be in the days after she plants the garden. Steve isn't sore though, that's when he goes out and looks at the garden, then does some stretching and tai chi. |
| 5:36
| Steve did move the fountain in the garden because Last Minute Janet asked him to. Steve went to the Sox game with Mike yesterday, it was his birthday. MIke is crazy about his birthday, it's a week long celebration. |
| 5:37
| Tonight they're going out to dinner for his birthday, which was yesterday. He was also mad yesterday that no one called him on his birthday. He's 25! Steve sent him a text message but Mike claimed 25 is a big birthday. It's a big anniversary but not a big birthday. |
| 5:38
| Steve was already running late yesterday trying to get to the game. He wrote his blog after getting a call from Jim Oberweis, which we'll talk about later. Steve still hasn't gotten used to the fact that people hear a lot more stuff in the morning. |
| 5:39
| Then Steve went for a run and when he got back Janet wanted him to move the fountain. She knew he was running late but that's how she rolls. On Tuesday he was given the impossible-to-complete task of putting up a sign on the front lawn. |
| 5:40
| It's impossible to put up because Steve has the wrong size screws. Buzz is also facing an impossible task at his house involving a DVD case. He decided to leave it and eventually Aimee was down on the floor trying to put it together. That's Being Buzz Kilman. |
| 5:41
| Aimee has decided she'll have to expand the size of the holes with a drill. She's tried everything else and it's not working. |
| 5:42
| Steve finally called the company and they're sending him new bolts. Janet gave him the task and then left for a meeting. Before she'd even pulled out of the driveway Steve knew it was a task he couldn't complete. When she got back she had to check and make sure it was an impossible task, like Steve's an idiot. |
| 5:43
| Steve thought about going to Home Depot for new bolts but that once you get into that screw section you're screwed because there are too many screws. And when you ask someone for help they say "Maybe it's over here" and then you say "Yeah, I thought it was maybe over here" |
| 5:44
| Steve was late to the game yesterday but Mike got there later than he did. He blamed the fog on Lake Shore Drive but Steve figured it was just co-workers taking him out for drinks. He's not flying a plane, how does the fog affect him? |
| 5:45
| Speaking of flying, Steve and Mike missed the flyover because they were eating. It was a great game but it ended at 11:15 and Steve was gone by then. Paul Konerko hit a game winning run. Do you call that a walk off still? Pete thinks so, everyone walked off the field. |
| 5:46
| The worst part was that the guys who did the flyover wanted to meet Steve and ask him how the flyover was. Mike tried to blame Steve because he had to use the bathroom. |
| 5:47
| So happy birthday to Mike. He's probably not up this early but he did know that his birthday wasn't mentioned yesterday. He's 25 years old! It's different if you have little kids. |
| 5:48
| Mike has been working the phones all week for his birthday. He got his girlfriend to throw him a party this Saturday. It's one of those $25 all-you-can-drink things and he's mad Steve doesn't want to go. Why would Steve spend $25 to drink Diet Coke for 3 hours? |
| 5:49
| Parents shouldn't go to their kid's birthday party. Unless the dad is single and he's out looking for young girls. |
| 5:52
| Now yesterday we had some problems with the phone lines. We could receive calls but no one could hear us. Steve stayed after the show with the engineer and got it fixed. |
| 5:53
| Everything is computerized so even the engineer didn't really know what happened. All he can do is what Steve would do which is keep rebooting until it works. We did that yesterday on our own and it didn't work. |
| 5:54
| The fact that no one could hear us lead to Brendan filing reports. He actually became more like a reporter and Steve found them quite enjoyable. He might demand a few of those here and there. |
| 5:55
| Peanut Butter also had to tape his report. It did run a little late though. By 10 am everyone probably knows all the sports scores. Steve was thinking that maybe Pat could record a report the night before that we could air early in the show. He could still be on live later on though. |
| 5:56
| The reports got better as the morning went on though. If Brendan is going to keep doing this we need to have a better system in Pete's studio. As it is now, Brendan has to leave the report as a voicemail in Pete's studio. Then Pete has to call the voicemail and record that. |
| 5:57
| Pete doesn't mind the system he has now, it was easy. The hard part was Peanut Butter's report because it was longer and involved more production with the audio clips. |
| 5:58
| Alright so yesterday was a pretty big day in the trial. Jim DeRogatis finally showed up but he was almost late. He finally strolled in about 4 minutes to 10. Did he really stroll? Isn't it more like waddling? |
| 5:59
| There was a report on Tuesday that DeRogatis would face the jury but yesterday was still just a hearing. He had his Sun-Times lawyer with him and Mark Martin was questioning him for the defense. He took the first and the fifth and read a prepared statement when he took the first and fifth. |
| 6:00
| It sounded like Cosa Nostra talk, that's what the mafia says at a Congressional hearing. Steve's looking for exactly what he said. The thing about the Trib and Sun-Times blogs is that it's hard to find the older stuff. |
| 6:01
| He read the statement from a note card and several of the readings were somewhat dramatic. Did he have that smirk on his face the whole time? A few weeks in jail wipes that smirk right off. |
| 6:02
| A few relatives of the girl testified that it was not the girl in the video and it was not R. Kelly. But then someone admitted there was a rift in the family between the people who thought it was her and the people who thought it wasn't. |
| 6:03
| Jim DeRogatis' statement was "I respectfully decline to answer that question on the advice of counsel on the grounds that to do so would contravene the reporter privilege, the special witness doctrine and my rights under the Illinois Constitution as well as the 1st and 5th Amendments of the United States Constitution" Wasn't the defense mocking him at some point though? |
| 6:04
| He read the statement whenever he was asked a question, even when someone asked him what his job was. Brendan has some new sketches that should be up on Dahl.com right now. |
| 6:05
| Steve would like to say that in the sketch where R is standing and stretching not only is there a nice representation of Ed Genson in the background but also clouds and rain to show what the weather was like. |
| 6:06
| Brendan mentioned yesterday that R had a personal umbrella holder yesterday which differs from Michael Jackson who carries his own umbrella. Based on the way Michael carried himself during his trial this one is almost a disappointment. |
| 6:07
| R. Kelly seemed pretty animated yesterday leaving court which you haven't really seen. Maybe that was his hatred for Jim DeRogatis which Steve understands. |
| 6:08
| So what's going on today? Based on the way the defense is going through their witnesses it doesn't seem liked they'd have many left. |
| 6:09
| Steve would still like to see R go away for this. Of course Buzz always comes down on the side of the pervert. |
| 6:10
| Brendan can see the trial being wrapped up next week. They probably won't put R on the stand though. Although it would be great, maybe he'd sing his testimony. |
| 6:11
| Steve just wants to wipe that smirk of Jim DeRogatis' face. Buzz has never noticed a smirk which means he's never seen a photo of him. The smirk is always there. |
| 6:12
| Buzz saw a photo of him yesterday and it looked like he'd gained some weight. Maybe it's not a smirk and just something caused by the jowls. He looks like a vegetable. |
| 6:18
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 6:19
| OK so yesterday Steve got home and there was a call on his answering machine from Jim Oberweis. Just to refresh everyone's memory Steve will read from yesterday's show log. |
| 6:20
| Also keep in mind that because the phones were out Steve had to dial it into uber-crazy. Steve was attempting to talk to Mark Czerniec about those pastries they make in Racine. |
| 6:21
| But then the phones weren't working. So Steve is coming off a bad phone call. And then he launches into something about how he doesn't like drinking milk with pastries. |
| 6:22
| It sounds lame when Steve is reading it now, imagine how it was yesterday. Steve did finally admit that he likes milk with cookies but Jim left that out. Maybe he thought it was too wishy-washy. Buzz was actually relieved to think that. |
| 6:23
| Maybe Jim doesn't like to think of Steve going back on his stand against milk with pastries. Although Steve is taking a fake stand against this whole thing. |
| 6:24
| It says that "They don't get glass bottles", who's they? Steve has noticed rereading some of these logs that it seems like Jim is losing interest in doing the show logs. |
| 6:25
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Who's the "they" that Jim is referring to? Is it Steve? Is it Oberweis? Jim remembers Steve saying "We don't get the bottles" so he changed it to "They" for the show log. |
| 6:26
| "They" is a dangling something. Would it kill Jim to go back and read the show log? He's out of here right after the show ends so he can go home and play with his dog. Jim says he stays until 1 most days but he's probably in his office napping. |
| 6:27
| Steve's just kidding, Jim does a good job. Buzz has him going all morning back there with fake crisis after fake crisis so he's very busy. |
| 6:28
| Steve remembers Buzz saying yesterday that Oberweis is unelectable but that's not in the show log. Apparently Jim has Buzz's back but not Steve's back. This is some sloppy logging. |
| 6:29
| Jim didn't sound mad on the message, he was just confused by what he heard on the show. As it turns out, Steve didn't get coffee in his order because Janet had ordered cinnamon coffee which is a seasonal item. |
| 6:30
| Steve apologized to Jim in his blog today and said he'd vote for Jim if he lived in St. Charles. He wouldn't vote for that scientist and businessman, that's for sure. You can't be a businessman and a scientist. |
| 6:31
| All throughout history the scientists had their ideas stolen by businessmen. Tesla invented radio, had it stolen by Marconi. Tesla invented electricity and Edison stole it. |
| 6:32
| Steve didn't call Jim back because he was embarrassed by what he said. So once again Steve has to apologize to Jim, his cows and the entire Oberweis family. |
| 6:33
| Steve was like George C. Scott in Hardcore, he couldn't listen to that voicemail. TURN IT OFF! |
| 6:34
| Steve was falling on his sword after hearing that, he was so ashamed of himself. Luckily he had the blog to stop the bleeding. |
| 6:35
| Buzz did say something about Jim being unelectable but some how he skated on that. Maybe it got lost because Jim heard about all of this secondhand. |
| 6:36
| Steve wouldn't want milk now because he's on there air. Drinking milk is not very conducive to talking . |
| 6:37
| Caller Chris can hear Steve and Steve can hear him which is great. We learned something about the phones yesterday which is when you put someone on the air there's a brief moment when they can't hear anything. So that could explain why a lot of callers seem bewildered when they get on the air. |
| 6:38
| Chris thought the Oberweis stuff from yesterday was a great commercial because he didn't know they even sold coffee. He drinks a lot of Starbucks but now he's going to start drinking Oberweis. |
| 6:39
| Well Steve's glad that some good came of that yesterday then. Because he couldn't have been more ashamed after hearing that message. TURN IT OFF! |
| 6:40
| Steve's already done Jim enough harm. He was on the show a few years ago because Dan Falato thought Steve needed to talk to politicians. Jim's a fan though and he said something completely reasonable about his stance on abortion. |
| 6:41
| But then people started writing about what he said and they wanted transcripts of the show from Steve. |
| 6:42
| Tommy Skillethead's checking in with some weather, how's it hangin Buzz? It's a little to the left for Buzz but right down the center for Tommy. We've got some storms coming through the area today but we've already had some this morning. |
| 6:43
| The next round is on the way...it says the storms came in on Monday and caused floods, he must mean Wednesday. Steve got cornfused, we better talk to Mark Czerniec. |
| 6:44
| Mark's page says there's a severe thunderstorm warning for Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties. That's not even close to here! |
| 6:45
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. He wasn't going to post that info but Mary said it would be worth it if we could save one life. And that weather will be heading our way at some point today. |
| 6:46
| What about when the road was shut down by Mark yesterday? Did they get a lot of traffic through town? Was Mark out in front of his house selling coffee? |
| 6:47
| Mark is actually pretty far from I-94. Some guy had car trouble, tried to cross I-94 and got hit by a truck. You should never cross I-94 at 2:30 in the morning. Actually you should never try to cross it. |
| 6:48
| What's the company up in Racine that makes those kringles? O & H is the biggest company. Are those the ones they sell in Costco? |
| 6:49
| Tommy's ready to do this report now. Amateur radio operators reported a severe thunderstorm producing 60 mph winds near Delavan. That's the home of the Clown Museum if Tommy's not mistaken. Doppler radar indicates the potential for nickel-sized hail. |
| 6:50
| Severe thunderstorms will be near Troy Center, Williams Bay and Elkhorn and Como by 6:40 am. Oops. It'll be near Spring Prairie, Springfield and Potter Lake by 6:50. So maybe we saved a life there. |
| 6:51
| It doesn't look great downtown right now either. Buzz was very depressed to see the 5-day forecast full of rain. It's supposed to be very warm and rainy. The rain is good for the crops though. |
| 6:57
| That's George C. Scott in Hardcore, watching his daughter in a porno. That's what it was like when Steve was listening to the Jim Oberweis voicemail. TURN IT OFF! |
| 6:58
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:59
| The International Clown Hall of Fame or ICHOF came to live in February of 1987 with the opening of an office and museum in downtown Delavan. |
| 7:00
| The ICHOF was relocated to downtown Milwaukee in 1997. Negotiations are taking place to acquire a permanent home in Milwaukee while the museum operates a "Preview Center" at the State Fair Park. |
| 7:01
| So the International Clown Hall of Fame has a more permanent home than the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Some guys in that Hall of Fame have been called clowns though. |
| 7:02
| Steve has been nominated for that hall of fame even though the museum only exists in the trunk of Bruce DuMont's car. He's got Garfield Goose stuffed in there. |
| 7:03
| Cooperstown, NY may be a podunk town but at least it's a real place. Steve has been nominated twice to a hall of fame that has no home. And the first time he didn't make it in! |
| 7:04
| Alright we're going to do some news here but to start it off we've got a report from our own Brendan Greeley. |
| 7:05
| After hearing that report Steve thinks for the first time that R might walk. He certainly seems like a weird guy but that's not illegal. |
| 7:06
| News with Buzz |
| 7:07
| Hillary Clinton is expected to announce today that she'll drop out of the race for Democratic Presidential nominee. Really?! Wow. She's also expected to hold an event in DC on Saturday to announce her support for Obama. |
| 7:08
| It was 40 years ago today that Robert Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he was celebrating his win in the California primary. |
| 7:09
| Remember a few weeks ago when Hillary said she should stay in the race because Kennedy was assassinated in June and you never know what could happen. Steve didn't think she meant anything by that. |
| 7:10
| The California Supreme Court has ruled that same sex couples do not have to wait until the November 15th election to get married. That's when California voters will decide whether or not to reinstate the ban on same-sex marriage. |
| 7:11
| Star Trek actor George Takei will be one of those people getting married, to his partner. He remembers when he first saw his partner, Brad Altman. They were at a running club and George couldn't take his eyes off Brad's muscled body. C'mon Sulu! We don't need to know all this. |
| 7:12
| Altman said he proposed by getting down on one knee. As opposed to the normal two knees? The pair bought each other silver and turquoise wedding rings. |
| 7:13
| Governor Blagojevich is reacting to the conviction of former fundraiser Tony Rezko. So this is where the Feds try to turn Rezko on Blago right? Blago's name did come up during the trial. |
| 7:14
| Drew Peterson's son now has 8 of his father's guns. See what Drew's doing, he's making it about the guns and not the missing broads. This is all part of Drew's PR strategy. You don't even hear about her any more, you hear about the guns or the tanning broad. |
| 7:15
| Sure they did just take that bath tub that Kathleen died in but what can you find in there 5 years later? That tubs been cleaned hasn't it? |
| 7:16
| Parishioners as St. Sabina will meet with Cardinal George today to discuss Father Michael Pfleger's leave of absence. This is a nonstory right? He's on 2 weeks leave, that's like a vacation! |
| 7:17
| Steve thought Pfleger should go on vacation with Sister Marianne but she never called in yesterday. |
| 7:18
| Ignorance really is bliss if you want a long life. Steve will certainly live past 100 though. Actually it only applies if you're a fly. Two Swiss scientists discovered a negative correlation between an improvement of a fly's mental capacity and the fly's longevity. |
| 7:19
| One group of flies were left alone while the other group were subjected to Pavlovian tests involving smell and taste. Those flies then became depressed. It was probably too much for them to handle. |
| 7:26
| The quote from Drew about his guns is that they're "family guns". The family that shoots together is in cahoots together. |
| 7:27
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:28
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "Have you found love on the CTA?" 93% of the people said no. If Steve rode the CTA he'd be working that thing both ways. It's a captive audience, you're bound to make something happen eventually. |
| 7:29
| Pete has never tried to work anyone on the train? He has a girlfriend now but now even before that? He still has a girlfriend right? She's still alive and everything? |
| 7:30
| Pete was not in New York last weekend to visit his girlfriend and she did not come here. Usually they take a week off in between their trips. He's not concerned what happens during that week off? Doesn't she have a hot male roommate or something? |
| 7:31
| When Pete first met the roommate he was trying to get him to use Propecia. So Pete rolls into his girlfriend's apartment in the NYC for the first time and he meets the good-looking roommate? Then he asks if Pete has thought about using Propecia. |
| 7:32
| Does Pete have a receding hairline? Steve's never noticed. Pete told him that ship has probably sailed. And this was all going on in front of Pete's girlfriend? This guy has to go. |
| 7:33
| Well he was actually yelling it from his bedroom and the apartment is very cramped quarters. Was he drunk or something? He just starts yelling about Propecia? Did he also say how based on what he's heard about Pete's performance in bed he could use Viagra too? If someone recommends Propecia to Steve he punches him. |
| 7:34
| He was up for a play in Seattle but Pete's not sure if he got it. Seattle?! Did Pet say something like "Ooh Seattle, the Great White Way!" If Pete needs any comebacks for this guy he should call Steve. |
| 7:35
| So every other week then? Hopefully Pete's doing something equally bad back here then. He should be working girls on the train. The most excitement he's had on the train recently is waking a guy up this morning because he didn't want to miss his stop. Steve wouldn't have done that and he would have laughed the entire way to work. |
| 7:36
| Pete does not have a good look coming to work or going home though. He's got the messenger bag slung over him like it's a chastity belt and two plastic bags full of VHS tapes. He has a cool job but it looks like he's the guy in charge of rewinding tapes at Blockbuster. |
| 7:37
| Actually today Pete got caught in the rain and the Smith & Wollensky bag he had the tapes in started breaking. So he was clutching the bottom of that. Steve can get him a case or something so he doesn't have to carry those bags. |
| 7:38
| Usually Pete's backpack holds everything except on the weekends when he brings more home. |
| 7:39
| We have a bank of VCRs here but Pete tapes a lot of the premium channels at home. Pete dreads the day that he comes in and doesn't have something that someone is looking for. That's the Buzz Kilman move. 20 people search all morning for a tape that turns out to not even be relevant or what he heard. He's pretty sure he saw Allison Rosati executed on the news and people are looking for that for 3 hours. |
| 7:40
| Caller Bill hails from Lombard. Pete is not from Lombard but for some reason Steve always thinks he is. Bill suggests a duffle bag for Pete's tapes. Steve has a Jack FM duffle bag in his office if Pete wants it. The duffle bag seems to work for R. Kelly. We might need to get R a Jack FM duffle bag. |
| 7:41
| Steve actually has several radio station duffle bags that Pete can have. Steve doesn't want to walk around carrying one of those. Does anyone want to live in a world where Steve feels compelled to advertise that he works in radio? |
| 7:42
| Well if, God-forbid, something should go wrong in the relationship with the girl who lives with the handsome actor who actively points out Pete's flaws, he should start working girls on the train. |
| 7:43
| Steve might not be in New York for the Nathan's competition but he would go out there to help Pete with this guy. Steve would go out to New York, on behalf of himself and Buzz, to punch an actor. First he'd make him cry, then he'd punch him. |
| 7:44
| Pete should go out to New York with Catman. When Pete met his girlfriend Catman was also there and she was quite repulsed by him. So there's no danger that he would be working her. |
| 7:45
| Pete's guessing that the CTA is a good place to meet someone during rush hour but not at 2:30 in the morning. Steve would just ride the train until he met someone. |
| 7:46
| Then he'd switch it up and try the Purple Line, maybe put on a Harvard sweatshirt to impress the Northwestern girls. The other day Steve saw a newspaper article with the headline "Harvard man killed on motorcycle" He didn't know we were identifying people by what school they went to. Then he saw the guy was from Harvard, Illinois. |
| 7:47
| Caller Gary can definitely recommend the CTA as a place to meet women, usually on the Brown Line during rush hour. Then you get off at the stop where the girl is and go to a bar. So he's stalking women then? |
| 7:48
| Gary talks to the woman on the train and then when she gets off the train you suggest going to a bar. |
| 7:49
| Pete rides the Brown Line right? He can take the Brown Line if he wanted to. Gary doesn't think he can, he lives in Rogers Park! Pete could take the Brown Line to Belmont and transfer to the Red Line. |
| 7:50
| Steve doesn't really care what line goes where. The Brown Line goes right into the heart of Lincoln Park and Lakeview right? |
| 7:57
| Standby, Steve has to rewind something on his TiVo. CLTV's covering Blues Fest, is that John Spiegel on there? |
| 7:58
| It's not John but it looks like him. Buzz would know his own guitar player. Steve's been seeing the guy all morning, he's just a John Spiegel copy cat then. |
| 7:59
| John's a big guy but not as big as he used to be. Steve found some of that weight if John wants it back. |
| 8:00
| Live read: McCracken Financial Partners |
| 8:01
| Caller Bob wanted to give Pete a warning about his girlfriend's roommate. He stole his friends girlfriend by doing the same thing, pointing out all of his friend's faults. |
| 8:02
| Some friend Bob is. Although Steve did something similar back in Detroit. You gotta do what you gotta do. So the warning is out there Pete. How many more people have to warn him? |
| 8:03
| Caller Lisa thinks Steve should stop picking on Pete so much. Lisa has been listening for a very long time. She has a lot of Steve and Buzz paraphernalia. |
| 8:04
| Lisa was at a breakfast broadcast that Steve did with Garry at a place called The Big Kahuna in Schaumburg. She's not sure if Steve remembers it. He remembers it, barely. |
| 8:05
| Lisa didn't think Steve was drinking at the time. If he was with Garry and at a bar called The Big Kahuna, he was drinking. |
| 8:06
| Lisa took a photo with Steve and Garry and made that into a tote bag. She cut Garry's photo out. She thought Pete could use it for his VHS tapes. |
| 8:07
| She could make an updated bag with the Jack FM logo on it. Steve doesn't think Pete's going to get laid carrying around a photo of him on a bag. |
| 8:08
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. He's heading to Taco Bell for the Cheesy Beef Burrito. It's only 89¢! |
| 8:09
| Steve would also like to recommend a Fruitista, it's sparkling. |
| 8:10
| Now back to the web poll already in progress. Steve is seeing a lot of weather things on Mark's page. Stuff like tornado-like winds in excess of 80 mph. Steve will just read the towns and when the storm is supposed to hit. |
| 8:11
| It will hit Richmond at 8:10, Wonder Lake at 8:15, Oakwood Hills, McCullom Lake, Sunnyside and Prairie Grove by 8:20 and Wauconda, Tower Lakes and Round Lake by 8:25. |
| 8:12
| The storm is extremely dangerous and potentially life threatening. The storms have a history of producing winds up to 70 mph. |
| 8:13
| Alright today's web poll question is "What is your favorite brand of athletic shoe?" Last week Steve met with a potential sponsor who came in with a big bag of shoes for him. That's not bad. |
| 8:14
| The store is called Runners Edge and the guy put Steve in a pair of Asics that are quite comfortable. |
| 8:15
| Buzz is familiar with the brand because the little woman wears them. She's not so little, she's actually very tall. She has big feet but that doesn't detract anything for Buzz. Paris Hilton has big feet and her own line of shoes because no one makes sizes for her. |
| 8:16
| How many of these weather things should Steve do? Because Mark has gone weather crazy. If we're going to get them Buzz wants to hear about them. The storm is moving east at 72 mph. Buzz doesn't even think that's possible. It'll get a ticket for speeding. |
| 8:17
| Buzz lives downtown, he doesn't even have trees! He thought storms moved much slower. By the time Steve and Buzz are done arguing about this people will be dead from the storm. |
| 8:18
| Steve can't keep up with everything Mark is giving him, he's gone berserk. This is a different storm than the one Steve just reported on. Or maybe it's the same one. Steve doesn't know any of these towns. |
| 8:19
| Mark is on the phone. The storm is all the same but it's several different warnings. The most disturbing thing Mark has seen is a tornado signature near Woodstock. Did Mark just say "tornado signature"? Geek! |
| 8:20
| Mark is looking at the radar and he saw a yellow triangle which indicates a possible tornado. The last time Mark saw one of those a tornado whipped through Racine and destroyed his favorite taco place. So he's been recently violated by the wind and he's trying to get the early warning out. |
| 8:21
| Steve doesn't want to see Woodstock damaged because he's still hoping for that Groundhog Day sequel. |
| 8:22
| Mark hasn't seen any tornado watches or warnings but there was some damage in Rockford. It's hard to tell what's damage and what was there before. |
| 8:23
| Alright Steve has Ed Farmer on the phone, he has to let Mark go. Hopefully his taco place is OK. They just reopened it so hopefully it doesn't get destroyed again. |
| 8:24
| Ed Farmer is tired, as is Steve. Steve left the game but he stayed with it at home until 11 pm. That's very noble of him though. |
| 8:25
| Steve Stone was trying to throw t-shirts at Steve left-handed last night. Ed and Steve don't need to do that. People seem to gather around Steve because they see t-shirts coming there. |
| 8:26
| Steve has to say that Ed and Steve are doing a great job. They were both pitchers so they bring great analysis to the broadcast. Steve Stone also brings his lifetime .100 batting average to the booth. |
| 8:27
| Miguel Olevo got hit by a pitch yesterday and he wasn't happy about it. Dotel wouldn't have done that on purpose in a tie game. He hit Jose Guillen later but he seemed happy about that. |
| 8:28
| Then Konerko won the game in the 14th inning. By then Ed had stopped keeping store, that's when his score card stops working. |
| 8:29
| Is there really a rift between Ozzie and Greg Walker? Ed doesn't know but he thinks Greg was upset by what Ozzie said. You say things in the heat of battle but Ozzie probably didn't intend to single Greg out. The media helps with the singling out though. |
| 8:30
| Steve was thinking about that road trip. You can work with someone and get along but then you have to travel with them and maybe they'd get on your nerves a little bit. |
| 8:31
| Steve was surprised to see that Esteban Loiza was already at the park yesterday. Ed saw him in the whirlpool room. Sox fans remember what Loiza did for the Sox winning 20 games so we need to get him into a game. |
| 8:32
| Is Steve going to take a golf lesson from Ed's guy, Jim Suttee? Steve needs to learn to play golf because he needs something to do in the afternoon. Ed also has afternoons free so they can golf together. |
| 8:33
| Just so Buzz knows, when he comes up to the broadcast booth they've got foot long hot dogs now. One guy was up there and he had 2 of them. He was sitting in the left field bleachers and Stoney told him there were a lot of Yankees fans out there who might be looking to test him. Then the guy asked for a second hot dog. |
| 8:34
| Those Yankees fans are a lot to deal with, they come to the games at The Cell and act like they own the place. Next time Ed goes to Yankee Stadium he's wearing a t-shirt but can't say on the air what it says. |
| 8:35
| Ed has always been treated poorly by security at Yankee Stadium, even though he's been there about a million times. |
| 8:42
| Alright we've got Brendan Greeley over at the courthouse and he's filed another report. |
| 8:43
| Brendan is killing Steve with these things. Steve has another report that was filed by Brendan. |
| 8:51
| Buzz would like Steve to log on to Jack FM's website right now. There's a special Father's Day deal. If you buy two tickets to the June 26th performance of Jersey Boys you will get a $25 Shell card and a $50 Greek Islands gift certificate. |
| 8:52
| Jersey Boys, isn't that a show about the Four Seasons? Steve was told in his headphones by Mary to sing some Four Seasons songs but he only knows 3 of them. |
| 8:53
| Steve did those three songs yesterday and he was looking for some other ones. Then he realized all of their songs sound the same. Steve can't believe they didn't cast him as Frankie Valli. |
| 8:54
| It occurred to Buzz that Frankie Valli has an Ed Silha feel to it. There's no need to belittle Steve's impersonation is there? |
| 8:55
| Steve would prefer that Buzz didn't compare his impersonations. The last person who did that was Wendy, that's all Steve's saying. |
| 8:57
| Buzz just meant that Ed would be suited to perform in Jersey Boys. Steve had to jump in late because he missed his window then he's thrown off by Buzz's comparison to Ed. Plus Steve is not a trained seal! |
| 8:58
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 8:59
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Yesterday Pat had to phone his report in because the phones weren't working. Steve liked the phone-in report but he still wants to talk to Pat live. |
| 9:00
| Since Pat doesn't go to sleep until about 1 am Steve was thinking he could record a report that we could air early in the morning. Because if you wake up that early you might want to hear some sports. |
| 9:01
| So the Cubs finally lost a game. Ted Lilly pitched a great game but Greg Maddux was just a step better, at age 42. You have to think Maddux dials it up a bit against the Cubs right? Plus Michael Barrett was catching. |
| 9:02
| The Sox won off a Paul Konerko home run in extra innings. The Comcast cameras got a nice shot of Mike and Steve. Steve was told they were ordering food or something. Mike told him there would be a shot of them during the broadcast. |
| 9:03
| Steve wanted to know when they'd show him so he wasn't picking his nose or shoving something in his mouth. But there was a waiter kneeling next to them talking to Mike so it looked like Steve was ordering 10 beers. |
| 9:04
| Did Hawk and DJ talk about Mike when they were on camera? Did Hawk break down because it was Mike's 25th birthday? Does anyone know? Pat didn't get a chance to see the broadcast of the game, he was just watching the raw feed. Pete didn't see it either but he's looking for it now. |
| 9:05
| Steve's pretty sure they were on during an Aflac trivia contest. He doesn't really care though. |
| 9:06
| After the Comcast cameras caught Steve Jim Thome hit a home run. It's about time. Hawk guesstimated the home run as being around 600 feet. That seems a bit high. Steve's pretty sure the concourse isn't 200 feet from the field. |
| 9:07
| Did Hawk get choked up after that home run? Did he have to hand it off to DJ? Why wasn't Hawk doing the call on that home run? |
| 9:08
| Pat noticed that Hawk took a lot of time off last night and let more DJ into the broadcast. Hawk was there in the 15th inning when Konerko hit the walk-off home run though. |
| 9:09
| What happened to Hawk's "This game is ova" call? Steve liked that, it was like Iron Chef. |
| 9:10
| There's no Cubs stuff today? Did Pete protest when Pat gave him the rundown? There aren't any lowlights Pete wants to play? |
| 9:11
| There wasn't much going on in that game, the score was 2-1 on a sac fly. Pete thinks they'll get them tonight in L.A. |
| 9:12
| Nine games is still a pretty impressive winning streak though. And tonight they're on Comcast Plus? |
| 9:13
| Comcast needs to come up with a better way to air those games. For starters, don't book more games than you can air! Sometimes it takes Steve a half hour to find the Sox game! |
| 9:14
| There is some talk about creating an entirely different network to accommodate all the games. The Sox game is on Comcast tonight and the Cubs are on CLTV or Mojo in HD. Mojo does have The Show about making it to the Majors. It features Carlos Quentin when he was with the D-Backs. |
| 9:15
| After the Sox game is over the Cubs will also be on Comcast, as well as CLTV and Mojo. Steve's pretty sure he has it now. |
| 9:16
| Steve gets stymied because the channels are different depending on what system he's watching. Finding Mojo on DirecTV is very difficult. |
| 9:17
| Comcast does need to stop booking more games than they can air, can Pat talk to Jim Corno? It'll get even more complicated with the Hawks games next year. |
| 9:18
| Then Greg Walker had a few things to say about Ozzie yesterday. Ozzie said Greg would be put on notice during the homestand. Although Ozzie didn't actually say anything like that. It's like that whole St. Sabina thing. |
| 9:19
| Ozzie did say yesterday that if Greg Walker has a problem with him he has to wear it. Ozzie did say something about the hitters not hitting and that's probably what Walker took issue with. |
| 9:20
| Was Ozzie talking about the hitters that Greg's coaching that aren't hitting? Ozzie mentioned the effort and Greg said the effort was all there. |
| 9:21
| And finally, another exciting finish to the Stanley Cup. The Red Wings won their 11th Stanley Cup. It was all over by 10 pm, just in time for Buzz to see his NBC news. |
| 9:22
| The Penguins almost scored a game-tying goal, which would have sent Buzz into a tizzy. OH CHRIST! Buzz mainly took issue with the name Penguins. Is that because of Batman? |
| 9:23
| If Buzz were on a hockey team he wouldn't want to be called the Penguins. It works, they're on ice, they play in a big igloo. |
| 9:24
| Buzz tuned in just in time for the post-game interviews in the Penguin's lockerroom where everyone was very mopey. The reporter kept referring to one guy as a Penguin. |
| 9:25
| The players on the Penguins are probably used to being called Penguins by now but Buzz is fascinated by it. He can see how if you're called a Penguin enough you'd have a smile on your face. They're such cute animals. |
| 9:31
| Last Friday Hawk's son proposed to his girlfriend at Tropicana Field. How about doing it up here? It's a nice moment though but it was funny. |
| 9:32
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:33
| Alright Buzz has some news but Steve also has another special report from Brendan. Buzz can figure out when he wants to work that in, he's the news impresario. |
| 9:34
| Hillary Clinton is dropping out of the race for Democratic nominee for President. What?! No! |
| 9:35
| Steve thinks it's funny that Hillary and Barack spent months ripping each other and now they're going to join forces. |
| 9:36
| Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged 9/11 mastermind says he wants the death penalty. Mohammad and his other defendants wore cream colored clothing and turbans to court today. |
| 9:37
| Space shuttle astronauts received a hip wake-up call today in the form of some Lenny Kravitz. Shuttle astronauts will be on a spacewalk today, probably to get away from the Lenny Kravitz music. |
| 9:38
| Smuggling brass knuckles aboard an airplane is illegal. A Tampa woman learned that the hard way. She didn't know you couldn't bring on brass knuckles? Buzz points out that it's not a gun. It is a weapon though. |
| 9:39
| The Better Government Association is cautioning that the Tony Rezko verdict doesn't bode well for Governor Blagojevich. |
| 9:40
| Who is disturbed that Father Michael Pfleger has been suspended for 2 weeks? For starters, a couple who was supposed to be married by him as well as 52 kindergarten students who are supposed to graduate this weekend. |
| 9:41
| Parishioners are calling on Cardinal George to reinstate Pfleger in time for this weekend's celebrations. |
| 9:42
| The initial report about the suspension that Buzz heard on NBC was that parishioners had be given the number of the archdiocese. They were instructed to keep calling until Pfleger was reinstated. |
| 9:43
| Dennis Farina has been charged with weapons possession stemming from an incident in which he attempted to bring a gun on a plane. How can you forget that you have a gun on you? |
| 9:44
| If you had a gun on you you'd always remember that. If you ask Steve what he has right now he'd be able to tell you. |
| 9:45
| Last week three neurosurgeons told Larry King that they do not hold cellphones up to their ears. They all recommend an earpiece instead. |
| 9:47
| Buzz saw an article last week about 2 Russian reporters who conducted a very simple experiment with their cellphones. |
| 9:48
| They took an egg, put a cellphone on either side of it and then called the phones. After 20 minutes the egg was cooked. |
| 9:49
| Steve and Buzz are going to try that here tomorrow with phones that have unlimited minutes of course. Plus they get breakfast out of it. |
| 9:50
| Alright we now go live to Brendan Greeley outside the courthouse at 26th and California. R. Kelly just arrived wearing a brown suit. It seems like a good color for him. |
| 9:51
| Brendan filed a report to, should Steve play that? |
| 9:58
| Cook County judge Vincent Gaughan, known for having a good rapport with jurors, asked them about the food they were being served. |
| 9:59
| Jurors had complained that the sandwiches they were being provided were not that good. Now they have a menu that allows them to choose what they want from the cafeteria. |
| 10:00
| One employee at the courthouse says these complaints are nothing new. Jurors think it's a Bennigan's and forget it's the Cook County court house. |
| 10:01
| If you're going to be there for a month you should at least get a good lunch. They're paying you $6 a day, which is insulting anyway. They're better off not getting you anything. |
| 10:02
| If Steve were on a jury he'd come home and reward himself with a bacon cheeseburger or something. That's probably why he weighs 300 pounds. It's 300 pounds of heavenly joy to Buzz. |
