Some mornings, news breaks that needs to be checked, re-checked, confirmed, and then I’m still not sure it’s true because it just doesn’t compute. Len Kasper bolting from his gig as the Chicago Cubs TV play-by-play guy to do radio for the White Sox qualifies. Kasper has been a companion to Cubs fans for 16 seasons […]
Even matching golf shirts are annoying to me as a uniform for broadcasters calling live sporting events, so what might you guess my response is to seeing Chicago Cubs announcers Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies wearing suits and ties every game? Suits and ties are for attorneys and accountants, not a couple of guys paid to […]
by Kent Sterling Nothing lasts forever, so the Chicago Cubs likely being carried on another television station in Chicago is part of the evolution of life, business, and media. The Cubs exercised an exit clause to opt out of their deal, and so unless WGN-TV can bid successfully for the rights to broadcast a schedule […]
by Kent Sterling Thank God for DVR technology. Otherwise, I never could have kept up with the spate of simple autobiographical blunders that peppered an uncomfortable interview with Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies in the top of the seventh prior to Mr. Cub singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during today’s home opening 7-4 […]