SPIEGEL: Guys, it was a saahhd weekend, as Ernie Banks passed away. Your thoughts, boys?

DAN: Talking to my Cubs guy, (sigh)...I...I have to be careful how I word this. (sigh) It's not that Theo and Jed and Tom Ricketts are happy Ernie Banks died, but...there's a sense of...I want to say, almost a sense of relief that the organization can move on from one of its...its trappings, that there was this man walking around the park with "Mr. Cub" on his hat, and it's just that...all these things add up to this atavistic mentality that you can't change Wrigley Field because it's timeless. Well, people aren't timeless, as we're finding out, and so now with the renovations, it'll be easier to...to make that break, I guess is how you could say it. I know they felt the same way when Ron Santo died, and of course, the team is going to be publicly maudlin about what a great player he was -- and he was, the numbers bear that out, for the most part -- but...(sigh) in a lot of ways it's one fewer...Cubs thing to have to explain away all the time as they're trying to run a damn business.

SPIEGEL: Wow, you really still are a jackass!

EVERYONE: hahahahahaha!

TERRY: I mean, look, I watched Ernie Banks, and, ah, I, I talked about it with my guy, and he said the same thing, really, that, I mean, great player, one of the best who ever lived, but the fact that, and I mean, the fact that you had this guy walking around with Mr. Cub on his hat, I mean, this was a great player, and now he's like a cross between Ronnie Woo Woo and Andy the Clown! And, uh, I mean, guys, really, when you think about it, the Ernie Banks that we knew and loved, that Ernie Banks died years ago, and really, when you get down to it, it's another guy from that '69 team that never won anything! They never won anything!

MANNELLY: I exist

SPIEGEL: Guys, it was a saahhd weekend, as Ernie Banks passed away. Your thoughts, boys?

DAN: Talking to my Cubs guy, (sigh)...I...I have to be careful how I word this. (sigh) It's not that Theo and Jed and Tom Ricketts are happy Ernie Banks died, but...there's a sense of...I want to say, almost a sense of relief that the organization can move on from one of its...its trappings, that there was this man walking around the park with "Mr. Cub" on his hat, and it's just that...all these things add up to this atavistic mentality that you can't change Wrigley Field because it's timeless. Well, people aren't timeless, as we're finding out, and so now with the renovations, it'll be easier to...to make that break, I guess is how you could say it. I know they felt the same way when Ron Santo died, and of course, the team is going to be publicly maudlin about what a great player he was -- and he was, the numbers bear that out, for the most part -- but...(sigh) in a lot of ways it's one fewer...Cubs thing to have to explain away all the time as they're trying to run a damn business.

SPIEGEL: Wow, you really still are a jackass!

EVERYONE: hahahahahaha!

TERRY: I mean, look, I watched Ernie Banks, and, ah, I, I talked about it with my guy, and he said the same thing, really, that, I mean, great player, one of the best who ever lived, but the fact that, and I mean, the fact that you had this guy walking around with Mr. Cub on his hat, I mean, this was a great player, and now he's like a cross between Ronnie Woo Woo and Andy the Clown! And, uh, I mean, guys, really, when you think about it, the Ernie Banks that we knew and loved, that Ernie Banks died years ago, and really, when you get down to it, it's another guy from that '69 team that never won anything! They never won anything!

MANNELLY: I exist

...maudlin bugle playing "take me out to the ballgame." ugh.

you guys hear that sappy "goodbye to Ernie Banks" thing big-voice man made? It took me about 5-10 seconds to realize this wasn't some bad bit. maudlin bugle playing "take me out to the ballgame." ugh.

I wonder if they'll make fun of the idiots who feel sad for someone they didn't even know? And to leave flowers...my God, man! Why do you care?!?!

Right before a 10-minute digression of Dan begging for OneStep Camp donations.

That reminds me...haven't heard any Cameron Hughes spots lately.

Now that the Cubs are on WBBM, I think you may see a softer & gentler Bernsie over this subject.