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:
Determining the species of small temperate bass at Heidecke Lake is easier than figuring out why the White Sox signed Kosuke Fukudome.

Mr. Fukudome loves Chicago partly because of the friendly Japanese~American community here......and also, I suspect, because he admires our wonderful populations of carp, which are sacred in his noble homeland.
Totoro Catbus, the first part of your statement might be more valid than I had thought about; the second part, however, my Neighbor, I am not so sure about.