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:
Baseball season in review: It's better to have been the king trying to leap the lowhead dam than the sucker lolling on the bottom of the pool below.

Cubs are 16 games out, Sox are 12. What's the difference really?
The way it's going, Ken S. will be elected Mayor - on the Perch America ticket - before either Chicago team wins anything.