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Random thoughts while wondering how much more room there is today on the Chicago Blackhawks bandwagon than there was before Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals: * With the Boston Bruins winning 2-0 Monday (June 17) to take a 2-1 series edge and Game 4 on Wednesday in Boston, the Hawks don’t have much […]
Monday meanderings: Carlos Marmol. Blown save. Cubs lose. The words go so well (well, “well” might not be the best adverb from a Cubs fan perspective) together. Nothing quite like giving up a three-run, walkoff home run to give the New York Mets a 4-3 victory Sunday (June 16). And Marmol has shown he is […]
Sunday smorgasbord: Yes, the Chicago Blackhawks lost Saturday night (June 15) to the Boston Bruins in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals. No, the world did not end. Well, it hadn’t as of the time that your humble correspondent finished today’s effort and hit the correct keys to post this. Going to sleep and […]
The closest Chicago baseball will come to the World Series this season is the White Sox-Astros weekend series that began Friday (June 14) in Houston. As you may recall (or maybe not), the teams met in the 2005 Fall Classic with the Sox claiming the championship. That might seem like a long time to Sox […]
Thursday thoughts (some of which actually may have occurred on Wednesday and some of which some might not even be considered thoughts or even a reasonable facsimile thereof by harsher critics out there in cyberspace): Judging from a distance (meaning on the sofa of corporate headquarters at elliottharris.com), fans at the United Center for Game […]
Midweek musings: Forecasting the Chicago Blackhawks-Boston Bruins Stanley Cup finals that start Wednesday night (June 12) at the United Center is pretty easy. The Hawks will win in seven. Or six. Or the Bruins in seven. Or six. The biggest upset in predicting the NHL’s finals would be finding someone credible who thinks the series […]
Random thoughts while wondering whether anyone really cares about television ratings other than those affiliated with the channels/networks and/or advertisers whose commercials appear on telecasts: * Continuing to wonder about TV ratings, if you do care, why? Does it really make you feel better if you know after the fact that many others also were […]
For some reason, some people take offense when the media make predictions on sporting events. More specifically, fans of a particular team take offense when media from that team’s city do not pick the team to prevail. Contrary to popular opinion (occasionally based on media behavior), the Chicago media — for example — did not […]
Watched the midnight edition of “SportsNet Central” on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Not to find out who won or lost. Thanks to this new-fangled (OK, not so new-fangled, but I’m not sure there is a word “old-fangled”) thing called the Internet, finding the results of games is easy. No, I tuned in more out of curiosity […]
No one in his or her right mind would sit and watch Major League Baseball’s televised draft show. Which means, of course, that your humble correspondent did. Well, not the entirety of the first two rounds Thursday (June 6). But enough to see that you probably would have to be an employee of MLB to […]