Totally Unreadable

[Quality Start Machine]

New ChicagoNOW, same old hilarity.

Hey! That fucker doesn't have us in his blogroll!

[Bort]

Rick Morrissey, you magnificent bastard.

[Quality Start Machine]

Oh, for Christ's sake.

[Waco Kid]

Oh, for Christ's sake.

[thehawk]

Rick Morrissey, you magnificent bastard.

Wonder if Rick knows the Cubs are not required to hire someone from the 606xx zip code.  Just like the 'lil meatballs on Mike Murphy Saturday show who demanded that Kenny Wiliams replace Hendry

[CT III]

You know, between Phil Rogers and David Haugh, the Trib has become funnier than The Onion.

Anyway, David's got hisself a brilliant plan to turn the Bears around:

Step 1: Hire the football equivalent of Theo Epstein

Step 2: Profit


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1016-haugh-bears-chicago--20111016,0,7806589.column

[Slaky]

You know, between Phil Rogers and David Haugh, the Trib has become funnier than The Onion.

Anyway, David's got hisself a brilliant plan to turn the Bears around:

Step 1: Hire the football equivalent of Theo Epstein

Step 2: Profit


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1016-haugh-bears-chicago--20111016,0,7806589.column

His idea of thinking big is trading a 3rd round pick for the corpse of Reggie Wayne? Holy shit.

[Bort]

Get this weak shit off my track.

[Tony]

Get this weak shit off my track.

Weak is right...not one mention of Shaun Gayle.

[Brownie]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

It's the outside scoop, direct to you by internet!

The firing of Jim Hendry, the meltdown in Beantown and every other detail you might have missed surrounding the hiring of the world-reknown curse-breaker Theo Epstein.

Wouldn't "every other detail" imply that Hendry's firing and the Red Sox' September swoon are also details they expect readers might have missed?

All this and more!

That said, the Amazon Kindle store has alerted me to an interesting related fact that isn't made clear in their regular store: "When Theo Met Tom: A Cubs Story" co-author Mark Gonzales also apparently ghost wrote "Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way."

Indeed, while this fact is not really spelled out on that book's cover, spine or copyright page either, Stoney himself had this much to say:

It was my idea, and then I worked with Mark Gonzales, who did a nice job of arranging my thoughts and doing a lot of research.  Mark was invaluable being a writer.  I don't spell very well, and he does a great job of it.  He really did a lot in putting this together, but they are all my words and we didn't do it in the interview format.  I would write a lot of it on yellow legal pads and then I would use a tape recorder.  Next, I would go through the sections by myself and then Mark would get all of the words arrange them and put into writer's speak.

Steve Stone: the thinking man's baseball talking person.

[CBStew]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

It's the outside scoop, direct to you by internet!

The firing of Jim Hendry, the meltdown in Beantown and every other detail you might have missed surrounding the hiring of the world-reknown curse-breaker Theo Epstein.

Wouldn't "every other detail" imply that Hendry's firing and the Red Sox' September swoon are also details they expect readers might have missed?

All this and more!

That said, the Amazon Kindle store has alerted me to an interesting related fact that isn't made clear in their regular store: "When Theo Met Tom: A Cubs Story" co-author Mark Gonzales also apparently ghost wrote "Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way."

Indeed, while this fact is not really spelled out on that book's cover, spine or copyright page either, Stoney himself had this much to say:

It was my idea, and then I worked with Mark Gonzales, who did a nice job of arranging my thoughts and doing a lot of research.  Mark was invaluable being a writer.  I don't spell very well, and he does a great job of it.  He really did a lot in putting this together, but they are all my words and we didn't do it in the interview format.  I would write a lot of it on yellow legal pads and then I would use a tape recorder.  Next, I would go through the sections by myself and then Mark would get all of the words arrange them and put into writer's speak.

Steve Stone: the thinking man's baseball talking person.

"Hamlet"  A tragedy by the Earl of Oxford as told to William Shakespeare.

[Brownie]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

It's the outside scoop, direct to you by internet!

The firing of Jim Hendry, the meltdown in Beantown and every other detail you might have missed surrounding the hiring of the world-reknown curse-breaker Theo Epstein.

Wouldn't "every other detail" imply that Hendry's firing and the Red Sox' September swoon are also details they expect readers might have missed?

All this and more!

That said, the Amazon Kindle store has alerted me to an interesting related fact that isn't made clear in their regular store: "When Theo Met Tom: A Cubs Story" co-author Mark Gonzales also apparently ghost wrote "Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way."

Indeed, while this fact is not really spelled out on that book's cover, spine or copyright page either, Stoney himself had this much to say:

It was my idea, and then I worked with Mark Gonzales, who did a nice job of arranging my thoughts and doing a lot of research.  Mark was invaluable being a writer.  I don't spell very well, and he does a great job of it.  He really did a lot in putting this together, but they are all my words and we didn't do it in the interview format.  I would write a lot of it on yellow legal pads and then I would use a tape recorder.  Next, I would go through the sections by myself and then Mark would get all of the words arrange them and put into writer's speak.

Steve Stone: the thinking man's baseball talking person.

Funny, Stone's second book reads a lot like Ryne Sandberg's second autobiography, which, while it seems to be in the same voice as his HOF speech, seems much different than his first attempt at chronicling his life.

Athletes ghost-writing books? Are you going to tell me Santa Claus is not real next?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

It's the outside scoop, direct to you by internet!

The firing of Jim Hendry, the meltdown in Beantown and every other detail you might have missed surrounding the hiring of the world-reknown curse-breaker Theo Epstein.

Wouldn't "every other detail" imply that Hendry's firing and the Red Sox' September swoon are also details they expect readers might have missed?

All this and more!

That said, the Amazon Kindle store has alerted me to an interesting related fact that isn't made clear in their regular store: "When Theo Met Tom: A Cubs Story" co-author Mark Gonzales also apparently ghost wrote "Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way."

Indeed, while this fact is not really spelled out on that book's cover, spine or copyright page either, Stoney himself had this much to say:

It was my idea, and then I worked with Mark Gonzales, who did a nice job of arranging my thoughts and doing a lot of research.  Mark was invaluable being a writer.  I don't spell very well, and he does a great job of it.  He really did a lot in putting this together, but they are all my words and we didn't do it in the interview format.  I would write a lot of it on yellow legal pads and then I would use a tape recorder.  Next, I would go through the sections by myself and then Mark would get all of the words arrange them and put into writer's speak.

Steve Stone: the thinking man's baseball talking person.

Funny, Stone's second book reads a lot like Ryne Sandberg's second autobiography, which, while it seems to be in the same voice as his HOF speech, seems much different than his first attempt at chronicling his life.

Athletes ghost-writing books? Are you going to tell me Santa Claus is not real next?

If you can't find humor in that quote, that's fine.

I think we can all agree, though, that something is amiss here.

[CT III]

Get Phil Rogers and Seabiscuit's Jockey immortalized on your Kindle!

It's the outside scoop, direct to you by internet!

The firing of Jim Hendry, the meltdown in Beantown and every other detail you might have missed surrounding the hiring of the world-reknown curse-breaker Theo Epstein.

Wouldn't "every other detail" imply that Hendry's firing and the Red Sox' September swoon are also details they expect readers might have missed?

All this and more!

That said, the Amazon Kindle store has alerted me to an interesting related fact that isn't made clear in their regular store: "When Theo Met Tom: A Cubs Story" co-author Mark Gonzales also apparently ghost wrote "Said in Stone: Your Game, My Way."

Indeed, while this fact is not really spelled out on that book's cover, spine or copyright page either, Stoney himself had this much to say:

It was my idea, and then I worked with Mark Gonzales, who did a nice job of arranging my thoughts and doing a lot of research.  Mark was invaluable being a writer.  I don't spell very well, and he does a great job of it.  He really did a lot in putting this together, but they are all my words and we didn't do it in the interview format.  I would write a lot of it on yellow legal pads and then I would use a tape recorder.  Next, I would go through the sections by myself and then Mark would get all of the words arrange them and put into writer's speak.

Steve Stone: the thinking man's baseball talking person.

Funny, Stone's second book reads a lot like Ryne Sandberg's second autobiography, which, while it seems to be in the same voice as his HOF speech, seems much different than his first attempt at chronicling his life.

Athletes ghost-writing books? Are you going to tell me Santa Claus is not real next?

If you can't find humor in that quote, that's fine.

I think we can all agree, though, that something is amiss here.

There's nothing wrong with an athlete having a writer help him get his thoughts on paper.  What I do enjoy is the fact that Stone is so goddamn arrogant and smarmy he has to mock Gonzales in the act of admitting that even the Great Steve Stone needs some help.