AMC aired the movie It Happens Every Spring this past week.

It was a cute movie about a professor / scientist who discovers a fluid that would make a ball avoid wood.

Yes, I know - such a thing would be considered cheating these days.
I'm sure some batters thought Bruce Sutter had this potion back in the 70's.

I am curious where this movie was filmed. How many ballparks did they visit? They show a Cubs/Cards game where the left side of the park looks a lot like Wrigley Field. But the shots of the dugout and the rest of the outfield don't have the right look, so I wonder if they used some shots of Wrigley and mixed them with another park.

Or perhaps the previous Busch stadium or wherever the Cards played in 1948 had a similar design to Wrigley. I don't know.

Check this website to see when this movie might air again in addition to the upcoming Mon, May 8 at 5:00 AM Central airdate.
If you're recording it, give it a bit of padding time. When I recorded it, the PVR shut down before the movie had ended. :(

http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=169...

http://www.amctv.com

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Weblinks for Chicago Cubs fans

TV listings for Chicago Cubs fans.

Feel free to add to this list.

Source: Tivo listings

Room by Room

Next showing: Baseball Bedroom Redecorating with a baseball theme.

* Fri 5/26 7:00 AM
* HGTV
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, Educational, Home Improvement, Home and Garden, How To

MTV Cribs

Next showing: Baseball player Johnny Damon

* Sat 5/20 1:00 AM Central
* MTV2
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, News and Business, Home and Garden, Interview, Home Improvement

Costas NOW

Next showing: Baseball's home-run debate; Willie Mays Major league baseball's home-run debate; interview with former professional ballplayer Willie Mays; the history of steroids in baseball; the history of the home run.

* Thu 5/18 6:30 PM
* 75 HBO
* 1 hour
* No rating
* News and Business, Sports, Talk Shows, Interview, Sports Talk, Talk Show

Real Weddings From the Knot

Next showing: Christin and Michael A Southern beauty queen and a professional baseball player get married.

* Sat 5/20 4:30 PM
* OXYGEN
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, Reality, Romance

Nash Bridges

Next showing: Hardball Nash and Joe try to protect a gifted baseball player (Jose Canseco) from deportation.

* Mon 5/22 2:00 AM
* USA
* 1 hour
* No rating
* Drama, Action Adventure, Mystery and Suspense, Crime Drama, Suspense

The Drew Carey Show

"Drew & the Life-Size Jim Thome Cutout" Trying to fit in with the guys, Kellie steals a life-size cutout of baseball player Jim Thome, resulting in a police chase.

Fri 5/26 12:30 PM
TBS
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Comedy, Sitcom

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Edens Lost and Found

"Chicago: City of the Broad Shoulders" Active volunteers and community leaders; Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley helps build Millennium Park

Thu 5/18 8:00 PM 11 WTTW
Duration: 1 hour
No Rating
Interests, News and Business, Public Affairs, Community

FoodNation With Bobby Flay

"Chicago Neighborhoods" Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods; Swedish pastries; gyros.

Fri 5/19 9:30 PM FOOD
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Interests, Educational, How To, Travel, Cooking

What You Get for the Money

"$600,000" Homes for around $600,000 in Chicago, Portland, Maine, Omaha, Neb., Gainesville, Fla. and Reno, Nev.

Thu 5/18 7:00 PM FLIVING
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Interests, Educational, How To, Home Improvement

King of the Hill

A season in the life of Ferguson Jenkins. Chicago Cub, Cy Young winner, Canada's greatest pitcher.

Fri 5/19 11:30 AM (Multiple airings)
197 DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
Duration: 1 hour
No Rating
Documentary, Sports, Biography, Baseball

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Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

WHITE SOX & CUBS - Cubs' edge in TV ratings slips

Teddy Greenstein
Published May 26, 2006

Bottom line, the Cubs' popularity has taken a giant hit over the last two years. In 2004, Cubs games drew an average rating of 9.1 on WGN/WCIU and 6.5 on Fox Sports Net. (One ratings point equals 34,380 Chicago-area households.)

This season they're at 4.9 on WGN/WCIU and 3.4 on Comcast SportsNet. So the audience is down about 45 percent.

Read entire article at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bas...

Cartoons of the day...

Superhero Pranks
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/triple...

Baseball questions
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/triple...

Superhero games
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mgg.as...

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

I'm curious how WGN's non-baseball and WB ratings compare to their Cubs and White Sox game coverage.

It seems like they get far better ratings for Cubs games on WGN than Comcast, which makes sense because WGN has a much greater audience due to cable, satellite tv (including c-band/big dish), and over the air antennas. We could even watch the Cubbies on WGN a bit while in Florida, something we couldn't do via Comcast Chicago Sportsnet.

(Yes, I'd like to see more Cubs games on WGN like in the old days.
We get superior picture quality on WGN compared to Comcast.)

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

Is anyone watching the game on TBS?

I like their graphics showing how the batter did in previous innings.

What other differences are their between the WGN/Comcast and TBS coverage of the game?

TBS and the Atlanta Braves
http://www.tbs.com/sports/braves/

Chip Caray
http://www.tbs.com/stories/story/0,,4418...

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

Did anyone else notice the 15 minute "Bloopers" program scheduled last Friday at 1pm - 1:15pm on TBS just before the Cubs/Braves game?

I thought it was an odd length of time for a show and an even stranger timeslot for a program like that, since usually a timeslot like that would be used for a pre-game show of some sort.

Towards the end of the program was a Bloopers segment showing ESPN reporters cracking up while reading a 2002 news story regarding Kerry Wood.

I wonder if the TBS sportscasters (Chip Caray, etc.) viewed this just before their show started and that was why they seemed to be giggling a bit at the beginning of their telecast???

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TV listings for Cubs fans - June/July 2006
http://www.cubsnet.com/node/1207

TV listings for Cubs fans August 2006
http://www.cubsnet.com/node/1378

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie