From the Chicago Tribune: "As recently as Sunday, Stone planned to call just 13 Friday Sox home games, serve as a three-days-a-week baseball analyst for WSCR-AM 670 and perhaps continue his postseason work for TBS. Then Sox vice president Brooks Boyer called to ask if he wanted a roster spot on the Sox broadcast team. Within 36 hours, the one-year contract was done."

(Hat tip: Baseball Primer.)

He's calling games for the wrong Chicago team. How did it come to this? Wrigleyville23 blames Dusty.

The Cubs radio booth is a man down. "Masur, who spent the last eight years on Cubs broadcasts, including
five seasons doing one-half inning of play-by-play during Pat Hughes' breaks, agreed to a two-year deal with an option for 2009 to serve as play-by-play and color man on Padres' radio broadcasts," reports the Chicago Tribune. "Masur will join veteran Padres announcers Jerry Coleman and Ted Leitner in the booth and do up to three innings of play-by-play and six innings of color, plus pregame interviews."