Posts tagged as "Ron Santo"
  • 12/3 Posted in On the DL Podcast 2 comments

    DL487: LeBron, NFL v NBA, Ron Santo & Soccer’s Future in a Cupless USA with Jon Tannenwald

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    Second show of two today. It would be odd to not have Tannenwald on the show after the World Cup announcement, given how much time he and I talked about this day for the last six months.

    Alas, it’s Qatar. We talk about the bid, what this means for the growth of soccer in America and what it might mean for the head of US Soccer, Sunil Gulati. Tannenwald is, to understate, mild-mannered. This is as heated as he gets.

    But first, we discuss the passing of Ron Santo before talking about LeBron’s return to Cleveland. Is it just me, or my Philly sensibilities, or did nothing really happen? There was booing, there was a blowout and that’s about it. I actually expected worse, and while it’s good that most Clevelanders handled themselves calmly (there were tweets of inappropriate slurs thrown his way during the game and the TNT online cameras caught at least one fan in the stands trying to goad LeBron into a war of words (or more).

    But it allREAD MORE

  • 12/3 Posted in News 0 comments

    Call of the Day: Rest In Peace, Ron Santo

    Terribly sad news for baseball fans today. I have no clue what he’ll write, but I’d make a point to check Big League Stew today because Kaduk will obviously be able to put this news in greater perspective — as a Chicagoan and Cubs fan — than I ever could. But this is a loss for baseball.

    Ron Santo died last night.

    From the Tribune:

    Legendary Chicago Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo died Thursday night in Arizona, WGN-AM 720 reported this morning. He was 70.

    Friends of Santo’s family said the North Side icon lapsed into a coma on Wednesday before dying Thursday.

    The former Cubs third baseman had overcome several debilitating injuries, including the amputation of both legs, to continue to work as a Cubs analyst on WGN, the team’s flagship radio broadcast. He was expected to return for the 2011 season.

    Santo was one of those characters the sport has in almost every city. He was a great — GREAT — player, yet had a second life in the sport as a color analyst and, well, superfan.READ MORE