Wrigley Brick

If you're in Chicago today, the falling snow probably tipped you off that the game I was supposed to attend in the fifth row behind home plate was indeed postponed. Damnit!! dejesus freak emailed me yesterday though and posed the idea of driving to Milwaukee to see the Cleveland Indians play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who are playing in Milwaukee because it's snowing in Cleveland and Milwaukee has a retractable roof stadium. For a while today, I was going to have a double header in two different towns! We're still going to Milwaukee though, so at least we'll see one game.

Next time you're at Wrigley Field at the corner of Sheffield and Addison by the Harray Caray statue, you can see my small contribution to the park! Last year I had the chance to buy a brick paver that would be installed around the stadium somewhere and could write anything on it I wanted (subject to censors). There are supposed to be a lot of them around and the Cubs indicated that mine is near the section marked "Ron Santo". Not sure how it's marked, but I was going to find out today. Oh well. I have a replica of the brick in my living room actually as they sent all purchasers a duplicate.

Finally, here's the text of an email I sent regarding the Bears schedule. Non-sports folks can feel free to skip it!

The Bears schedule has been released!

I know I predicted a lonnnnnng season for the Bears last year (which it was in terms of games played, but that's not what I meant at the time). This year however, is going to be much, much worse. Why? Let me elucidate:

1) Grossman will be a year worser, I know it's not a word, but it fits Grossman who is not an NFL QB.
2) No Thomas Jones, man are we going to miss him in week 4 when Peterson is our RB.
3) No Lance Briggs
4) The entire offensive line is a year older.
5) Last year we started off with three patsy, divisional games followed by Seattle without their MVP RB, followed by Buffalo, Arizona, a bye, and SF before we hit the Miami buzz saw. We SHOULD have been undefeated. Those teams sucked! Whole different ball game this year. We start off against real teams: at SD, KC (and Larry Johnson) and Dallas before we hit our patsy games. We could easily be 0-3 or 1-2 to start off the year. That's going to put the players in a different mindset and it's not going to be good.

I can see us easily losing six games, but probably not more than that: at SD, KC, at Philly, at Seattle, one of Denver/Giants at home, and the Saints in week 17 (though who knows whether that game will matter). The Saints will be New Year's Eve-Eve, so maybe Grossman will focus on the game this year. Doubt it will help.

Joe says 10-6