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When you’re hot, you’re hot. And there is no question that Jaime Edmondson fits that description. The Playboy Playmate (January 2010) enters Sunday’s games of the NFL’s Week 14 with a 1-0 record. That’s what properly picking the Thursday night game will do for a body. And that’s what Jaime did by correctly calling a […]
At his introductory press conference Saturday with the Los Angeles Angels, Albert Pujols declined to address why he left the St. Louis Cardinals. “Today is not about St. Louis,” he said, sounding like another former Cardinals first baseman. You remember Mark McGwire and his appearance before Congress regarding steroids in baseball and deflecting questions by […]
Saturday statistical stuff: If we are going to have some baseball numbers, we might as well start with Albert Pujols. He is not quite one of a kind, but he is close. Only five other big-league players have had at least 400 home runs, 1,300 runs batted in and a .325 bating average for their […]
Fearless Friday forecast (and arbitrary alliteration): Now that he has left the St. Louis Cardinals to sign with the Los Angeles Angels, Albert Pujols no longer will be a problem for the Chicago Cubs. Well, until they meet in the World Series. Oh, wait; that was only a 10-year contract signed Thursday for $254 million. […]
Thursday thoughts: Bye bye Buehrle. Wasn’t that the name of a Broadway musical from the 1960s? Oh, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Close enough. With left-hander Mark Buehrle signing a four-year, $58 million deal Wednesday with the Miami Marlins, the end of his 12-year Chicago White Sox career officially ended. Sox fans can look back if they […]
Midweek musings: The way the Miami Marlins appear ready, willing and able to spend money at baseball’s Winter Meetings, someone might think they have discovered the Fountain of Wealth rather than any Fourtain of Youth. * Speaking of youth (or lack thereof), a 10-year Marlins deal with Albert Pujols could mean a deal with the […]
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): * Wondering whether there will be a separate plaque in Cooperstown for Santo’s toupee. * Wondering which is more disconcerting for Chicago Bears fans to […]
Monday meanderings: The NFL announced Sunday the halftime entertainment for Feb. 5 Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis will be Madonna. At 53, she continues the recent trend of older halftime performers. Apparently Betty White already had a previous engagement — or no boyfriend young enough to be her son. * The Chicago Bears (7-5) are […]
Some things are worth waiting for. Certainly the weekly NFL picks — as well as pics — of Jaime Edmondson fall into that category. And there’s actually a reasonable excuse for posting them a little late: helping Jaime update her season totals. Really? Really. This is what some of us like to think of as […]
You can take the girl out of Chicago, but you can’t take the Chicago out of the girl. Consequently, Danielle Moinet is on the Bears bandwagon for Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Soldier Field. A former Chicago Bliss all-fantasy player in the Lingerie Football League, Danielle has returned to North Carolina (where […]