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:

Clay Matthews should let his freak's flag fly. Putting it up in a ponytail for the Grammys was like ''The Lakefront Lip'' shutting up or the Cubs .  .  . I can't. It's too early, too inevitable.