Felix Leiter

Christ. This really isn't even debatable. David, please don't use the Son of God's name like that. Ironic that you are so hung up on who said a profanity and then use something extremely profane. Thanks.

Here's the stats on Kris Bryant starting other than 3rd. Left- 4 Center-1 Right-2 First-1 I remember him being moved to 3rd in later innings.

Ditka didn't like Walsh, as he regarded him as an 'academic' and someone who never played the game. Putting a big lineman in the backfield and running him against the Bears was just rubbing salt into the wound for the '84 Bears. Ditka never forgot. Roger Craig was a stud for a few years both running and catching the ball. When Hank Stram was with the Chiefs and had QB Lenny Dawson slide the pocket, a number of teams tried to adopt that offense the next couple years. It didn't last too long.

Actually the West Coast offense was started in the 1970's by Paul Brown of the Bengals. I believe Bill Walsh was an asst. coach. QBs like Virgil Carter and Ken Anderson ran it and then Bill Walsh took it to Stanford and then onto the 49ers.

Just said new ownership wasn't fond of him, IIRC. Talked about the rumors that he slept with August Busch's wife getting him canned from St. Louis. When Reinsdorf/Einhorn took over, they had pretty thin skin and didn't want Harry criticizing the team. Plus, Harry and Jimmy Piersall were Bill Vecck's guys. As to Harry sleeping with August Busch III's wife, she apparently came onto a number of men during her marriage to Busch. During the All-Star break in 1970, Harry stopped over in St. Louis for a few days. Fleishmann Hilliard(the Cardinals PR firm) sent the word out that any local station having Harry on the air would never see another dime of AB money. The PBS station invited Harry to appear on 'The Bill Fields Show' a sleepy Sunday night talk show. The show normally lasted for one hour, but the telephone response was so great that Harry stayed on the air for over 2 1/2 hours. Harry took phone calls and one caller asked about the Mrs. Busch rumors. Harry said 'I'm 50 years old, overweight, the most I've ever made is $75K and I wear Coke bottle glasses. The woman in questions husband is young, virile and heir to billions. If she prefers me over him, who am I to argue with a rumor". Costas was wrong on his story about the night Harry was fired. Harry held his press conference at Busch's Grove(not his home as Costas said) a Busch family owned restaurant. Harry wanted to stick it to the Brewery one more time and sent a waiter across the street to a grocery store and to bring back some Schlitz beer. The number of phone calls to KMOX Radio-the Cardinals flagship station was overwhelming to the Southwestern Bell system. Because the first three numbers of the sports phone line were the same as many of the hospitals, people dialed the first three numbers and got busy signals. I knew Harry and he lived at the Ambassador East during the season.

Haha, yeah...I'm not disinterested in 85 because of 69...I'm disinterested in 85 because it's talked about so damn much. And also, I have much more attachment to teams I was invested in, and at 9 years old, I just wasn't that invested in the Bears. I thought it was one of the weaker type 30 for 30's, mainly because they let the players basically take over it, but they don't have much of anything to say. They think they're a bunch of scary, insane guys with CA-RAZY stories who are actually just really, really boring. It touched on a lot of interesting things (how dominating the defense was, the mix of personalities, basically ushering in modern day media endorsements, the after effects of football), but it was on the level of the 30 for 30's that were basically made by the major sports organizations in that it was too focused on making it a love letter to the subject. The second half was better, if not depressing as hell. Seeing the different reactions to Payton's frustration over not scoring in the SB was interesting (but then when they have an opportunity to do something similar with Ditka going media crazy when he told everyone else not to and how it pissed a lot of them off, that's only briefly touched on and mostly played for a joke), as was McMahon dealing with his injuries. As usual Sammy, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. Or maybe another orifice. You thought it was 'weak' and then cite points you thought were interesting. And you must have stayed with it for the whole two hours because you could easily switched channels. I thought it captured the attitude of the team and how they were built. They didn't gloss over the Ditka/Ryan relationship. If it was a Bears mgmt. production, you would not have heard about McCaskey criticism. Even though it happened 30 years ago, there has not been a team that reached such national attention since, even though teams have had more sustained success.

Agree 100%. Sad to see Buddy Ryan in a wheelchair and suffering. But always good to see Otis Wilson highlights. CSN did an hour program on the 46 Defense and it also was good. Danny White of the Cowboys said that Otis' hits caused White to have two spinal fusions because of his hits. One quick Buddy Ryan story. The Bears were losing at halftime and Buddy goes over to Wilbur Marshall in the locker room and says: "Why don't you take a shower and sit up there with the rest of the cheerleaders." Marshall was pissed and went out in the second half and destroyed the other team. Funny that some people wallow in a '69 team that never won anything and downplay an '85 World Champion. Odd.

What tipped you off? The last post was in April? The last post was in 2014? If you're posting @ 3AM, we have to get you a woman.

Good points, BB. When Al Davis had the Raiders in LA in the 80's, he wanted to develop the Englewood site for a new stadium. He claims the NFL blocked him and he was forced to move back to Oakland. On the San Diego side, Spanos apparently mentioned to Kronke a couple years ago that WalMart owned 60 acres of the Englewood property and was offering it around. Although Kronke married a Walton relative, he didn't know the property might become available. He never got back to Spanos and then later on purchased it. I'm thinking Spanos was ripped. The Oakland/San Diego deal in Carson was doomed unless one of them was moved out of the same division. As an old coot(David's words), the #19 baby blue Lance Alworth jersey remains one of the coolest jerseys ever. People called him 'Bambi', David. I hope they somehow wind up staying in San Diego

How is St Louis better off for an NFL team leaving the city? One step closer to just burning it all down and starting over. As opposed to that gleaming, progressive Constantinople of the Midwest, Chicago. But I agree. The Stadium site Peacock & Co. proposed was not viable. I wrote a post here over a year ago how StL has faced three "500 year" floods since 1972, and we just had another one over Christmas. Our region has a major problem coordinating the building/management of levees. But StL's biggest problem is brain drain. And the fact that half the city makes Detroit blush. The town is an absolute dump. St. Louis is still fighting the Civil War and remains one of the most segregated cities in the U. S.. Many areas north of the Jones Dome are third world quality. That coupled with the drain of Fortune 500 HQ over the past 20 years, there has been a declining trend in corporate $$$. If you drive around Chicago and Minneapolis, you see new construction all over downtown. You would think the Mississippi would be perfect for riverboats and floating attractions. Last time I was there, Peoria has better riverfront development than St. louis.

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City? Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City? Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City? Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

yeah unfortunately there's a lot more important things that sheffield was a lot better at than attitude. Have you been paying attention the past 3 years? This FO considers mental makeup and clubhouse presence to be very important. No one is discounting that Sheffield was a very good player, but there's a reason he was dealt so many times.

Considering Sheffield hit 500+ HR, I'll take that from Baez. Sheffield's problem was attitude and I don't see nothing but positives from Baez.

It was pretty short. On Soler-Cubs challenged him to lose some weight to become more athletic. Just saw video on him and looks a lot better at the plate and the field. Says his power will increase as he learns to get a little loft which he's working on. Soler's post season showed everyone what he is capable of and only has 125 games in majors. Soler wants to play everyday and to improve his fielding.Confident that a Schwarber-Heyward-Soler would be great. Unless 'we're blown away' Soler will start in RF. Told Soler to ignore trade rumors. More likely to do a small deal. Some major deals they have been approached about, they would never do. On pitching-Joe likes pitching that can relieve and start-Wood, Warren, Cahill, etc..

Theo is on The Score right now. Hope he gets asked about Warren's role and Heyward's position.

Lou Piniella also wore '14' with the Yankees, so there's that. Interestingly '4' was only worn by Lou Gehrig and yet '3' was worn by others besides Babe Ruth, until 1948--years after Ruth retired.

The artist, formerly known as Starlin Castro Chicago Cub, will be on with Bruce Levine on The SCORE @ 9:30 AM. For those who will miss him, here's your chance to love him one more time.

Oh, what is this fresh nonsense. Non-GMO crow is now being served at Sammy's table. Told ya. How you don't grasp the obvious time and time again is amazing. You realize people thought the "fragile psyche" was the ridiculous part, right? I mean, it was even in bold and everything. Wrong again, Sammy It's you who ignored his "fragile pysche". Castro's undoing was self-inflicted. He never learned from his mistakes. He had his moments where he really showed his talent, but there was the other side and it was unacceptable. His value decreased and Theo got what he could for him. Eat up now.

Oh, what is this fresh nonsense. Non-GMO crow is now being served at Sammy's table. Told ya.

It was Joe Maddon at the end of July and the promise(?) was no trade during the season. The season is over. A 25 year-old 3-time All-Star cost-controlled SS is a centerpiece trade chip for Theo and Jed. These speculative dump-diving trades are aiming too low. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-starln-castro-not-traded-20150729-story.html http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/1158534/cubs-still-questions-hope-answer-winter-meetings Thanks, David. Don't read the ST daily. But I still think they're offering him around. He's got such a fragile psyche it seems. What other Cubs player has to be told twice in 6 months that he won't be traded?

It was Joe Maddon at the end of July and the promise(?) was no trade during the season. The season is over. A 25 year-old 3-time All-Star cost-controlled SS is a centerpiece trade chip for Theo and Jed. These speculative dump-diving trades are aiming too low. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-starln-castro-not-traded-20150729-story.html

I'd sure like to see what Chapman could do as a starter. Would you take a chance and stretch him out and give it a go?

Please compare our rotation to the WS champs. Thanks. OK, here goes. If our starters at the end were: Arietta, Lester, Hammel, Hendricks and Haren. Here's what KC starters did in the WS. Volquez-3/6 Cueto-1/9 Ventura-5/3.1 Young-2/4 Volquez-2/6 Other than Cueto's complete game, the rest were OK. I know the extra pressure on Volquez but he was not lights out. Ventura was bad and Young was so-so. The Royals defense was good and certainly helped. I want at least another starter, probably a solid #3. Trade Castro and a minor leaguer to the Mets for Matz right now.