If Edgar is the choice down 45 to 42 without having campaigned at all doesn't seem to be much of an underdog status.
Slightly OT - the Jeri Ryan character in Boston Public, if I remember correctly, was a high priced lawyer/banker who now works in a poor inner city school. This sounds like Jack Ryan's actual life.

Sorry OJ, won't work. No Republican can win in Illinois without the downstate vote and the downstate Cardinal fans would have a hard time pulling the lever for a Cub.

By the way Raoul, my son and I have tickets for Sunday's game and we'll be wearing our Cubs hats. I told him that it will be the most dangerous place this side of Fallujah.

Orrin: No way on Sandberg. Heard him speak a couple of times. Makes Ben Stein sound like Al Gore these days.

Jeff: No, the most dangerous place that side of the Ryan. Look across the expressway. Wondered the couple of times I've been down that way if a bullet can reach the park from o'r by 'der.

Heard a Sox fan rant on the radio one time about nobody knowing nothin' about baseball nort' o' Madison AVENUE! We don't know our baseball on the North side but we do know our geography!

How about Jeri Ryan? She's already shown that she respects old-fashioned moral values.

& Strom's retired so the cloakroom is safe.

Used to be it was in that North Side park where a Sox hat was guaranteed to be soaked with beer by the third inning. No way would a self-respecting Sox fan waste alcohol, even 3.2 beer, in that way. But the real reason Northside fans didn't go to Comiskey was because they couldn't stay out past their bedtimes, and the fireworks after a homerun would frighten them.

Not totally true Raoul. Back during Veeck's second term (78, 79 or so) I went to a Friday night game at the old Kaminsky (phonetic spelling) to see the Sox play my beloved Tigers. I had first row seats in the right field grandstands and left the park soaked from beer falling from the 1st row of the upper deck. The Tigers won and Al Cowens cold-cocked Ed Farmer. A good time was had by all.

Jimmy won't run. Rumor has it he's been promised an ambassadorship if W wins.

That stuff falling from the upper deck wasn't personal. The ledge holding the white painted railing was about a foot wide and where you put your refreshments. So a lot of stuff came over that railing by accident, and fans in the know would never have sat where you did. Lower deck general admission was always best several rows back, depending on the wind direction and speed. (Hey that could've been me up there! I once lost a cup over the edge.)

The worst case of something going over the edge I saw was one game when some Sept. callup for the Sox, (Jim Brazile?) hit two homeruns to the exact same seat along the upper deck railing. The guy who caught the first ball missed the second, and in the process, knocked the first ball over the edge, too.

Another entertaiment was to reach down to put your empty cups (if there were beer sales or you'd made the trek to civilization) in the lights of the scoreboard just below the ledge. They didn't always stay put.

Veeck - Disco Inferno.

Cubs fans are all morons anyway.