Just got finished watching the Cubs put the big hurt (pun intended, Sox fans!) on the our crosstown rivals. I’m a baseball purist so I hate interleague play, but I have to admit I love watching my beloved Cubbies beat the hated White Sox. A nine-run fourth inning is just gravy. And a come-from-behind, walk-off homer yesterday? Man, it doesn’t get any better than that.
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Some of you might be wondering what inspired my blog’s name. It’s an homage to my days as a wire service reporter at City News Bureau of Chicago. We didn’t get bylines back then, and anyway we did things old-school. For instance, instead of having a staff full of reporter-writers, we had a staff of reporters and a separate staff of writers — known in industry parlance as “rewrites.”
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