I think Jen has to be saying "wtf"..lol. I love this update! i dont see anything about pending offers and people knocking his door down, talk about shitting it all away.
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Hey Folks,
Well I've been off of work for over a month now. My choice of activities since that time has been not to love many activities. Right now I'm sleeping, playing pickup basketball, going to the OTB, and watching baseball. Be-Be and I will be going on vacation soon, and we're looking forward to it. I mentioned in my last column on northtonorth that Konerko would have 2 weeks to straighten out. Well Ozzie after a few days is sounding the alarm on Paulie already. How many more times can you write Paulie's name on a lineup card? If Paulie can get hot for a 2 week stretch I believe the Sox can extend their lead!
Also Devon Hester is being paid to run back punts, and kicks, and be a decoy on offense with an occasional catch. He's worth what they are paying him just to do that. He will never be a dominant receiver. Just let him do what he does best and be the best return man and special teams returner I've ever seen. And I saw Sayers.
By the way, the emails are coming in fast and furious still. Two that I got were a former producer and on air guy, Tommy Williams, and the other email is from a guy who used to work for me at the Score named Ed Creech. Eddie was a laid back guy and a dog lover. I decided to post Ed's email below. Ed's success and his new life mean more to me and Be-Be than any ratings book, show, station, or paycheck could ever mean. I hope he doesn't mind us sharing but when things looked darkest for Ed that's when his life began.
Talk to you later, Mike, Be-Be, and Lucky
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Hello, Mike. This is former Score producer, Ed Creech. I know a blast from the past, 10 years.
I just read with sadness that you are now unemployed. I have been meaning to write you for years with an update of what's happened to me since I left the Score, but never have. Henry Henderson told me this past winter that he ran into Be-Be at a Notre Dame basketball game and he told her that I would write. Never did. But, the venomous anti-North articles today (fuck Mariotti, that jealous prick!) have inspired me to finally sit down and write.
I want to thank you, Be, and Dan Jiggetts for making my life what it is today. The beautiful gift of Boomerang has meant so much to me. Not just the thought of what you did, but what happened as a result.
On Memorial Day in 1998, about ten days after I left the Score, I was walking Boomerang in Loyola Park and I met this very attractive (blonde and busty) woman walking her dog: a border collie/shepherd mix named Tasha, a rescue from the Chicago pound. It was their first day in the park together. There weren't very many attractive, single women in Rogers Park, so Elena stood out. I had to wait for my severance check from the Score before I could ask her out. When I became flush with cash again, it still took me 4 hours to ask her out. That was a Sunday morning, June 7, 1998. I asked Elena to marry me two months later and we tied the knot on August 6, 1999. I cannot imagine my life without Elena. And, it would never have happened without your kindness and generosity. I met my wife because of my dog, your gift to me.
You have a lot of faults, Mike, but we all do. That is what makes us human. What people tend to forget or minimize is your heart of gold. I remember when I had to put my old dog, Pumpkin, down. You offered to go with me or go for me. You and Piersall were the only ones. It figures. The two crazies are the ones who show the most humanity.
I can never forget you, Mike. Every time I look at my wife, I realize you had a hand. Thank you. Just remember, great things happen to people who leave the Score. For me, it was finding a girl, finding a good gig (teaching. I am now at St. Benedict ES teaching 8th grade religion and social studies. You'll love this, Mike. My principal is compiling a list of words I am not allowed to say in the classroom. You, and George Carlin, have been a bad influence. But, I digress.), and finding real happiness.
I promise to send pictures of the family (Elena, Boomerang, Tasha, and, our newest, Josie). Just give me an email address. Hey! Since you have nothing to do for awhile, if you want to come by and play with the pups, and bring yours, we're in Evanston: ironically, a half-block north of the hot dog stand. There's a backyard and a stocked refrigerator. Call me:
I never realized when I met you how big of an impact you would have on my life. I can never repay you enough other to say, "Thank you!"
God bless and be yourself!!
I think this guy said that everytime he looks at his wife, he thinks of Mike
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