From an interesting (and somewhat amusing) article from ESPN:

If you polled America’s baseball fans on whether this year’s Cubs are better than last year’s, we bet nine out of 10 would answer: No. But guess again. After 149 games this year, the Cubs are 83-66. A year ago, they were only 79-70.

Jeff just told me “I don’t know anything, but if I did know something, I’d say you were probably getting an offer tomorrow.”

The showing of Inventing: Music at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival was pretty good.

Didn’t have as big of an audience as I’d been expecting (I think I got spoiled at Rochester). I would say there were probably about 30 or so people in the audience. Of course, about 2/3 of them were …