College of Idiots: Live Blogging a Rain Delay.

The COI cheerleaders prepare sandwiches for the long awaited Cubs game over at COI headquarters.

Who doesn't love a live blog? No one? Oh yeah.

I can't think of anything to write as of late. And I've been busy working on my new site over at the Andy White Fan Club, so I thought I would live blog the game tonight. And since I will get off before the game is over, you won't even get the end of the game.

So I'm at work and with not much actual work, so here goes (all times local, Phoenix time)...

4:16 - WGN is on the AIR! Too bad the Cubs aren't. It's a rain delay.

4:18 - Andres Blanco is starting at 2nd and batting 8th. Did I mention that I started my new site, the Andy White Fan Club? Another brief timeout and then WGN will go back to it's local stations. I'm listening to the game since I'm at work. I wonder what happens since I am listening on MLB Radio? Guess we will find out.

4:22 - Fans are entertained by the Nats-Giants game on the big screen. Randy Johnson is going for win #300. Hey, Big Z is going for #100. Is there some sort-of history behind that? Looks like the guys are going off the air...

4:24 - So I guess off the air means I get to listen to the ambient noise in the booth.

4:26 - Looking for a photo for the front of the post, I thought I would see if Cubs Cuties would have any of girls in the rain. I thought it would be appropriate. Unfortunately, I ended up at this site: THE Cubs Cuties. Much different than what I was looking for. God this woman LOVES talking about her kids, although she is a Cubs fan from what I gather, they even named one of their kids Wrigley. Back to my search...

4:34 - I wonder if the THECubsCuties blog lady is aware of CubsCuties blog at all. Should I warn her? So I found the only one with rain at the actual site Cubs Cuties, I think the girls are in HS, so sorry about that. I'm not a perv or anything.

4:40 - Changing the photo, that last one was just too creepy. Even for this site. Instead...

4:54 - Still no work, and no game. So I read that Sammy retired today. Damn, just when Milty is about to go on the DL. Now who will play right field? Oh yeah, both Reed and K-Fuk have been doing just fine. If only we could find a position for Fox.

5:00 - I'm listening to the closed feed, that station engineers get. I wonder what they're talking about over on WGN or showing for the game. If I'm lucky, I might get home in time to watch the game. So I was looking up the Sosa thing, and over at ACB, they did a "tribute" of sorts for Sammy and their best memories. I can't say I was sad when he left. By the end he was a cancer to the clubhouse, as the ceremonial beating of his boom-box showed (that's one good thing Bako did for the Cubs at least). But I also have my favorite Sammy memory. I can't remember the date or the year, but one summer a bunch of friends and I traveled into Wrigley to catch a game. The Cubs were down all day, but started to come back in the ninth. Sammy came up to the plate and hit a dinger and the Cubs won the game. As much as a great memory it was, I actually can't remember much more than that. I have the photo somewhere though. So anyone with good Sammy memories?

5:20 - Just finished posting over at the Andy White Fan Club. Did I mention the Andy White Fan Club blog? Andy White Fan Club. Now time for a much needed break.

5:40 - Well this is going on a little long. It's what, 7:40 in Chicago? So you're about to put the kids to bed, grab a cold Old Style and you're WAIW koozie and watch Rookie of the Year on DVD again right? I wish I had something else to listen to. I guess the guy came on again at 5:30 and said that there was still no news about the game. Looks like we won't get to see Z tonight as planned, even if the game goes ahead. Too bad. Wonder what Bullpen wonder will start in his place? Maybe Rule 5. Do we still have that guy? Why? I just checked, he pitched on the 31st so I guess so.

5:50 - A little notes on This Day In Baseball History:

1890 - Submariner Tim Keefe of the New York Giants franchise of the Players League defeats the Boston Reds, 9-4, to record his 300th win. 'Sir Timothy', who won 19 straight decisions in 1888, will finish his 14-year career with 342 victories. 119 years later Randy Johnson becomes the latest pitcher to reach the feat of 300 career wins.

1974 - On ten-cent beer night, the Indians forfeit to the Rangers due the Tribe's unruly fans as the game is called off in the bottom of the ninth with scored tied at five by home plate ump, Nestor Chylak. An estimated 60,000 cups of brew is sold to a crowd of 25,134. Are you sure that wasn't at Wrigley Field?

1986 - In a 12-3 rout of the Braves, Pirates rookie outfielder Barry Bonds hits his first major league home run off Craig McMurtry. Bobby’s son will become the All-time career home run leader hitting 762 during his 22-year career playing for Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Giants.

2003 - Although his bat may have contained cork in yesterday's game, all five of Sammy Sosa's historic bats housed at the Hall of Fame and the76 of confiscated from his locker by major league baseball revealed no signs of tampering. X-rays and CT scans were used to clear cleared Cubs' slugger remaining lumber. 6 years later, Sammy retires.

6:15 - Still no game, could this be the longest delay ever??!?!? GFY Atlanta. I'm outty like tight-rolled jeans. Maybe the game will be on when I get home. (Fingers crossed).

Go Cubs!