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Ten Foot Mailbag: Star Wars Sucks
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Yeah, I said it. I saw The Empire Strikes Back as a kid and thought, “What the hell is this crap?” Though the Colt-45 guy’s clothes were pretty pimp. And you know what makes the...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Passion, Playoffs And Patrick Kane
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Mere seconds after I filed last week’s TFMB I learned of the passing of Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA of the seminal group The Beastie Boys. Ironic that I answered a question in that...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: It’s About Time, Kerry
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Wow. Kerry Wood is supposedly retiring. I’m not surprised at the decision, though I am at the timing. Sort of out of nowhere, even though anyone who has played tee-ball could see...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Why Do Grown Men Bring Their Gloves To Games?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Hey, Curt Schilling—ha! Schaden—damn—freude. You who spoke out before against government putting its icky, sticky fingers in the business of freedom-loving American entrepreneurs...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: I’m On Summer Break, And You’re Not
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) I’m on summer break as of 11am today. The start of my vacation from one of my three jobs is always a little bittersweet because while I look forward to being away from angry parent...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: How To Win Score Search
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Welcome to The Score Interrogation Ro… I mean, the Ten Foot Mailbag (I’m not welcome at The Score studios.) Lebron haters were very quiet Thursday night. I argue his performance...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: What To Get Dad This Father’s Day
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Full disclosure—I’m banging this drum again to anger people who don’t want to think. Call me a troll, I don’t care. People have to get angry at being wrong about something before...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Starlin Castro, Quitting Smoking And Bruce Willis
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Sixty hours. That’s how long it has been since I last lit a cigarette. Nonsmokers don’t get it. “Just stop doing it,” they say. “Quitting can’t be that hard,” they blather. Shut....
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Which Athlete Would Make The Best Delivery Guy?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) The White Sox are coming off a very impressive sweep of the Texas Rangers, the first team to do that in 2012. Just when the Sox were beginning to make people have serious doubts...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Jay Paterno Needs To Shut Up, And French Fries
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Memo to Jay Paterno, son of dead disgusting person Joe Paterno: Step away from the interviews. I understand how difficult it must be to accept that your dad was a monster much the...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: When Should The Penn State Talk Cease?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) This space is reserved for the weird and lighthearted of sports and life. For just a moment I’d like to deviate from that. In case you’ve been in a cave today prior to reading...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: For Whom Should An Ex-PSU Fan Root?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) You waited and waited and waited, and finally it came back Thursday night. And you who were so excited for a Bears preseason football game got exactly what you deserved. First,...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Notre Dame’s New Uniforms And Watching A Cubs World Series
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Game play is of ultimate importance when I’m taking in a sport. I want the most entertaining product possible—if I have a dog in the race, then that means my preferred team winning...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Lance Armstrong And ‘Shirseys’
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) “I’d like to begin by saying f*** Lance Armstrong. F*** him and his balls and his bicycles and his steroids and his yellow shirts and the dumb empty expression on his face.” George...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: White Sox, Cubs And The Brighter Future
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Oh, hello, football. Didn’t see you there. How’ve you been? I hope well. You look good. Man, seems like I haven’t seen you in forever. You, um, still working out those issues or...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Penn St. Vs. US Swimming Sex Scandals
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Art Modell, the former Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens owner, died Thursday at the age of 87. I’ve known of few men more vehemently hated by a fanbase—that of the Browns—than...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: All-Time Ginger Quarterback Power Rankings
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) So… that Bears/Packers game, huh? Yeah… Looking at the schedule before the season began, most rational fans had to have had this one chalked up as a loss, so while the 24-hour...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Who Plays Cutler In A Movie?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) So I’m attending the White Sox game Friday night. As is just my luck, the White Sox are in a bit of a bad stretch and really putting a damper on what I had hoped to be a meaningful...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Bears Will Lose Sunday, AL MVP, And Tacos
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Trap game, son! While I certainly hope otherwise, I’m planning on the Chicago Bears losing to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. So much so that I’m picking the Jags in the...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Bears Bye Week Blues
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Ugh, the Bears bye week. It’s like that point in time on Christmas morning as a kid after you’ve opened all your presents and are jacked as hell to get to playing with them, but...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Lance Armstrong Vs. Tiger Woods
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Just one question for this week’s TFMB because, well, I said so. so what makes nike dropping [Lance] armstrong different from a person like Tiger woods who cheats on his wife?—Drew...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: What If Yaz Actually Hates Hawk?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Bears vs. Panthers. The last living 1985 Chicago Bear comes home to bite the hand that fed him or something. Cam Newton vs. Jay Cutler. Two bitchy, pissy quarterbacks that Warren...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Bears O, Obama, And Oh, Paterno Emails
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) As I kind of took in Election Night (I say “kind of” because unlike people who decide to feed off of emotion when it comes to making decisions regarding our country, I opt to...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Cutler Sells And Christmas Songs
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) One of the great things about Chicago is its fractured structure of neighborhoods, each with an identity and culture of its own. I say fractured in a good way—this sprawling...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Could Bo Jackson Have Been The Best Ever?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Way to go NHL. Thursday night, you doused a fleeting shred of hope of a season with kerosene, lit a match, and made its mother take pictures. I want the NHL back, I really do. But...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: I’d Be Josh Hamilton’s Handler
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Start you off with some bullets about a busy week in sports (and, yes, I used the word “bullets” a week after a mass shooting because even such a horrid act of senseless violence...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Bears Future Coach And Immature Athletes
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Happy New Year. Let’s be honest—2012 really sucked for Chicago sports. Outside of college football, with the either loved or hated Notre Dame, Northwestern being above average in a...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: The Te’o Story Brings Out The Worst In People
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) In case you hadn’t heard, Tom Brady—the face of the NFL, bastion of all that is good and pure about a viscous game—was recently fined $10,000 for trying to vasectomise Ed Reed in...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Who Wins A Chicago Championship Next And Jersey Etiquette
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) I was very impressed with the way the Chicago Blackhawks handled themselves Thursday night in their first meeting with Raffi Torres since Torres injured Marian Hossa on an illegal...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Jordan’s Birthday And An Emailing Bigot
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Hey, do you know that Sunday is Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday? It’s possible you don’t because you’re not extremely simple and just might happen to be one of the few people who...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Dealing With Rec League Cheaters
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) O.J. Pistorius. That’s what I’ve begun calling the South African runner accused of murdering his girlfriend (and I don’t want to place value on one murder victim over another, but...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Booing Former Players And Learning Hockey
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Look at this guy. Look at him. I’m used to hearing Cubs fans annually “quit” their fanship like it was smoking or coordinating fights between homeless people for the purposes of...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Bears Moves And Spring Baseball Broadcasts
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) The Blackhawks began the long climb back to bloated bandwagon status with a shootout win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night. Everyone who self-jettisoned after the...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Paying College Athletes And Shortening The MLB Season
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) One of my favorite things to ever happen in sports is occurring this weekend. While I enjoy The Masters, it’s not the tournament itself I’m referring to. Augusta National officials...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Talking To Kids About Boston And Apologizing To PSU Fans
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) It was a really, really, really, really, really, really bad week to say the least. Chicagoans should count themselves lucky that it was mostly just our commutes and basements that...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Does Food Poisoning Diminish Jordan’s Flu Game?
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) A few notes before getting to your questions this week. First, after a tumultuous few days of polarization between people on the right side of history and intolerant...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Oh No, There’s A Packers Fan Reality Show
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) So the 2012-13 Bulls are in the past and we can move on to the Blackhawks’ run for the Stanley Cup, icky baseball teams, and anticipation of Camp Trestman. Or not. That’s not an...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Frankfurters, Deutsche Banks And Hitler Calls The Birthday Lin
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Today’s date is 4/20. For mature people that date means nothing more than it’s Friday, and we’ve survived another week that has taken years off of our lives. For wastes of organs,...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Ozzie, Baby Rose, and Toe Salami
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) Friday night is The Score’s 20th Anniversary Celebration Roast. I’ll be in attendance, as I was for the thoroughly entertaining Boers and Bernstein Roast two years ago and the…...
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Ten Foot Mailbag: Urology, Sideline Candy, And DahMahNah
By Tim Baffoe- (CBS) The Cubs lost in the most Cubs way possible short of forfeiting due to locusts to open the 2012 season Thursday. Good thing I’m at peace with that. But I still heard fans jumping...
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