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The Chicago Tribune of Tuesday, May 9, 1876, describing a game in St. Louis between the Chicago White Stockings aka Cubs and the St. Louis Brown Stockings aka Cardinals.

Mark Prior trying to come back, Wood may be on the block

Ed Lynch is leaving

San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean quoted in today's Chicago Tribune re: a bad contract swap for Milton Bradley. LINKY

While none of the Cubs are on it, the special really takes an interesting look into the lives of the players off the field.

The players involved are Jorge Posada (Good story about his son), Casey Daigel and his struggles, David Eckstein and one other who's name suddenly escapes me..

If you catch a rerun listed it's a good watch.

This was the response of Tim Dierkes of mlbtraderumors.com to my question: "What kind of deal will Rich Harden get this off-season? And who will give it to him?" in today's live chat.

Paul Sullivan story from Tribune

Tomorrow marks the end of an era. Guiding Light a show probably your mother or grandmother watched leaves the airwaves after a combined 72 years on TV and radio.

Why the quote? I used to cover it for soap magazines and got to be an extra as a doctor a few times.

The Cubs connections:

1. Irna Phillips used to sit at Wrigley and write scripts in the late 30s and early 40s.

2. Characters were Cub fans as Springfield was supposed to be in the NW suburbs of Chicago unofficially. Through the years many a Cubs souveniere was seen.

3. For a few years in the 80s one of the writers was a huge Cubs fan and many 1 day characters were named after Cubs.

4. A few years ago they had a storyline where a character was a major league prospect. One of the writers at the time actually grew up with Hendry and Hendry helped with accuracy for the storyline.

I watched the show on and off for 26 years. Been DVRing it all week.

Many famous people got their starts on the show.

And it's the linchpin for a lot of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon arguments.

How are Kevin Bacon and Hayden Pannetiere (sp) of Heroes connected?

Kevin Bacon was on Guiding Light with many people who were on when Hayden was,