It 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:
If baseball starts like coho fishing did during the weekend, I would promise not to make any meatball Cubs cracks in 2012. That's as likely as my catching a record pumpkinseed.

We know neither is happening anytime soon. You've probably already cracked on the Cubs since posting this. Good luck on the pumpkinseed though.
Trust me, I have two places I fish in mind for the pumpkinseed record. That is almost as beatable as the yellow bass record.