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Random thoughts while wondering which former player’s omission from baseball’s Hall of Fame will outrage Chicago Cubs fans now that Ron Santo has been voted in to Cooperstown (albeit posthumously):
Jaime Edmondson was on the ball with her Monday night football forecast.
* Wondering which is more disconcerting for Chicago Bears fans to ponder: that the team didn’t play to its level in Sunday’s 10-3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at Soldier Field or that the Bears did play to their level.
* Wondering how breath-taking playing the Broncos in Denver will be for the Bears. As in oxygen deprivation, not their performance on the field.
* Speaking of last gasps, for the Bears to go after retired Brett Favre to come in and quarterback the team would be a sign of desperation. Coach Lovie Smith says the team is set at QB. Set to lose possibly three or all four of its remaing regular-season games would seem what the Bears are set for. Of course, that could occur even with Favre. So why go for the unknown with Favre when you know what you have with Caleb Hanie? Common sense says you go with the unknown because you know what you have in Hanie. Then again, no one ever said common sense was overly abundant at Halas Hall.
* OK, so it was late at night and wandering around on Twitter, there was this hashtag for#NHLConferenceNames (in recognition of the NHL going to a four-division alighnment). The best your humble correspondent could come up with was Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp.
Here are the new conferences:
As tempting as it was to run photos of Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp, for some reason this picture of April Rose was a unanimous choice.
Conference “A”
Anaheim
Calgary
Colorado
Edmonton
Los Angeles
Phoenix
San Jose
Vancouver
Conference “B”
Chicago
Columbus
Dallas
Detroit
Minnesota
Nashville
St. Louis
Winnipeg
Conference “C”
Boston
Buffalo
Florida
Montreal
Ottawa
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Conference “D”
Carolina
New Jersey
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Washington
* And the best that yours truly could come up with for #NHLConferenceNames #Captains was Ahab, America, Morgan and Underpants.
For those familiar with this site, you will recognize the photo atop today’s effort is of Jaime Edmondson, the Playboy Playmate and “Amazing Race” participant who generally graces this space on Sundays during the NFL season with her pigskin predictions. She also selects the Monday night games and — as generally is the case — she made the correct call with the San Diego Chargers defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars.
As if that’s not enough, Jaime also posted her Play-By-Playmate sports column at playboy.com.
For the record, Jaime’s record through Week 12 was 115-61. If the editorial staff at elliottharris.com calculates correctly (and that’s never a certainty), she went 9-7 in Week 13. Meaning she is 124-68 for the season. Pretty impressive figures. Quite a body of work, too, some might say.
In an attempt to start getting in the holiday spirit, some of us watched the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting show last week on NBC. Featured were Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber in “All I Want for Christmas.” Normally a fun song; this version with the age difference being what it is struck some of us as a little odd. As if you would expect anything else from a duet by those two.