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:

Dale Sveum managing the Cubs is like a shortnose gar bubbling in a collector's aquarium. Robin Ventura is like some panfish in the Chicago River downtown: Nobody's certain what they are.