Stray Cast: Chicago baseball & fishing

It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

After all, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here’s today’s:

Sox baseball in 2011 reminds me of stubbing a rock while wading, then doing a slow-motion tumble into the Kankakee River. Baseball at Wrigley? Coming back to the landing and finding the passenger-side window smashed.

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