Before the Loop area boomed, I lived at 200 N Dearborn, one of the very first residential development in the loop.

Where the Blue Cross building is today, there is still some land left there, there was a 9 hole Par 3 golf course and a driving range. We went there alot and Ernie was there all the time. You ould sit down with Ernie and he would tell you stories for 3 hours...as long as you kept ordering him a red wine.

Met Ernie as a youth at a bank opening he was paid to be at and at a Cubs open field field thing, but nothing better than after a Jurko, Camr and Harry show, the guy who owned the Club 162...and the former Hi Tops....says they have a speed dating event going on and they need guys....so I end up with with Carm, Jurko and Harry sitting down at the tables and who is sitting at the table next to me...ERNIE! "How ya doing"

RIP

P.S. Adam Dunn Career OPS: .854
Ernie Banks: .830. Good Riddance. *drops microphone*

I've seen these numbers juxtaposed a few times since Ernie's death, as if to suggest SABRmetrics are stupid, I suppose. In fact, this is the entire point of SABRmetrics. To take subjectivity out of the examination of players.

We all know Ernie is the great Cub hero. And we know Dunn is the incompetent oaf. But the numbers put lie to those ideas to at least some degree. Dunn got on base a lot more than Ernie. That's simply an incontrovertible fact. Short of railing against the numbers (and reality) there's no way to escape it.

I'm certainly not going to sit here and tell you that Dunn was anywhere near as good a ballplayer as Ernie Banks, but I'm not going to cite their respective OPS numbers as proof of Ernie's superiority either.

Before the Loop area boomed, I lived at 200 N Dearborn, one of the very first residential development in the loop.

Where the Blue Cross building is today, there is still some land left there, there was a 9 hole Par 3 golf course and a driving range. We went there alot and Ernie was there all the time. You ould sit down with Ernie and he would tell you stories for 3 hours...as long as you kept ordering him a red wine.

I've seen these numbers juxtaposed a few times since Ernie's death, as if to suggest SABRmetrics are stupid, I suppose. In fact, this is the entire point of SABRmetrics. To take subjectivity out of the examination of players.

We all know Ernie is the great Cub hero. And we know Dunn is the incompetent oaf. But the numbers put lie to those ideas to at least some degree. Dunn got on base a lot more than Ernie. That's simply an incontrovertible fact. Short of railing against the numbers (and reality) there's no way to escape it.

I'm certainly not going to sit here and tell you that Dunn was anywhere near as good a ballplayer as Ernie Banks, but I'm not going to cite their respective OPS numbers as proof of Ernie's superiority either.