tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7483260477196396988..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Flashback 1996: It's Pointless to Shift Gears on State StreetNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-12584573318564491532021-01-28T19:08:44.825-06:002021-01-28T19:08:44.825-06:00I remember this column in detail, right down to th...I remember this column in detail, right down to the wig shop and the strobe lights. I was at the time interested in your career because, for a very brief period, we were colleagues at Barrington Press. I remember wondering if you would bring your vivid writing style to the Sun-Times, and being gratified that you did.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91127690181512715202021-01-28T16:23:07.353-06:002021-01-28T16:23:07.353-06:00The desk, the desk!! OY. Love it. And you!!The desk, the desk!! OY. Love it. And you!!Steph Stitzellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807896332225707993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37603368624072903812021-01-28T14:47:28.547-06:002021-01-28T14:47:28.547-06:00Robert Roy Fothergill (1897-1938) weighed at least...Robert Roy Fothergill (1897-1938) weighed at least 260 pounds at one point during his playing career (1922-1933) with three American League teams (Tigers, White Sox, and Red Sox). He was not a home run hitter, but was still one of the best hitters in the majors during the late 1920s. Fothergill's lifetime batting average was .325, 38th-best in major league history. The fat man could hit.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15130787586252685992021-01-28T14:04:20.235-06:002021-01-28T14:04:20.235-06:00Having already congratulated you in a belated repl...Having already congratulated you in a belated reply to your 20th anniv. post, I hesitate to do so again. ; )<br /><br />"Daley is just so sick of being thwarted in his grandiose projects" that 7 years later he sent the bulldozers in to wreck Meigs Field before he could be thwarted that time...<br /><br />I agree with Tate. While a bit off-target in the analysis, perhaps, this column is still largely written in your inimitable style.<br /><br />That office, though. That view. There was a time when Charles Foster Kane could write "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper" in a certain movie and it actually made sense to people...<br /><br />Fine, despite my hesitation, Congratulations on this noteworthy occasion!Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23344908708708676382021-01-28T12:07:36.647-06:002021-01-28T12:07:36.647-06:00Ah. I looked him up, he beat Babe Ruth in a beer d...Ah. I looked him up, he beat Babe Ruth in a beer drinking contest and was a real good bowler having bowled a perfect game. It is a great picture, I just didn't expect a sports picture.Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71058359432702759742021-01-28T09:13:23.756-06:002021-01-28T09:13:23.756-06:00Congrats!Congrats!privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-17811516074582600972021-01-28T08:42:14.017-06:002021-01-28T08:42:14.017-06:00Fatty Fothergill? I BOUGHT that, from the great ba...Fatty Fothergill? I BOUGHT that, from the great baseball photographer George Brace. Bought a number of them. I thought they were beautiful.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9993397474377873672021-01-28T08:36:54.021-06:002021-01-28T08:36:54.021-06:00I don't see the clunkiness, but what stand out...I don't see the clunkiness, but what stand out for me are the boldly original metaphors that make this column unmistakably Steinberg.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73991992068949872482021-01-28T06:53:11.398-06:002021-01-28T06:53:11.398-06:00Great shot of the old office. Everything looks ab...Great shot of the old office. Everything looks about the way I would imagine it except the baseball picture. Someone break in and hang that up without you knowing?Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26298066757013325392021-01-28T02:01:54.961-06:002021-01-28T02:01:54.961-06:00Let me be the first to salute you on twenty-five y...Let me be the first to salute you on twenty-five years as a Sun-Times columnist, which is no mean feat. You're closing in on the longevity of [choke] Bob Greene (sorry). Eight more years and you'll tie Royko. Unlike either of them, you've spent your whole career with the same team, the way Ernie Banks did. <br /><br />Those pictures? They make you look younger than your mid-thirties, or your mid-forties, or even your late fifties. And here's something else to chew on: You've been a Sun-Times columnist longer than either Daley served as mayor.<br /><br />As the kids say...grats. Or is it gratz? (Hey, I'm old...)Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.com