* There is Power in a Union, Billy Bragg

* Night Shift, Bob Marley

* Cleaning Windows, Van Morrison

* We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, The Animals

* Finest Worksong, REM

* Fruits Of My Labor, Lucinda Williams

* Hard Times For An Honest Man, John Mellencamp

* Honest Work, Graham Parker

* I Am The Working Man, Dusty Drake

* I've Been Working, Bob Seger

* Labor Day, Black Eyed Peas

* Man In A Cornershop, The Jam

* Workin' Man Blues, Merle Haggard

* Mr. President Have Pity On The Working Man, Randy Newman

* Smithers-Jones, The Jam

* We Can't Make It Here, James McMurtry

* Welcome To The Working Week, Elvis Costello

* Working Class Hero, John Lennon

* Working In A Coalmine, Lee Dorsey and Devo versions

* Working Man, Rush

* Working Nine To Five, Dolly Parton

* Maggie's Farm, Robert Allan Zimmerman

* Why Don't you Get a Job, The Offspring

* Dirty Work, Steely Dan

* That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On, Sam Cooke

* Hard Day's Night, The Beatles

* Money, Pink Floyd

* Workin' for a Livin-Huey Lewis and the News

* Takin' Care of Busines, BTO

* The Promised Land, The Boss

* Career Opportunities, The Clash

* Death Or Glory, The Clash

* Money for Nothing, Dire Straits

* Truckin', Greatful Dead

* 30 days in the hole, Humble Pie

* We built this City, Jefferson Starship

* If I had a Hammer Take, Peter, Paul, & Mary

* This Job and Shove It, Johnny Paycheck

* Blue Collar, Bachman-Turner Overdrive

* Working on the Chain Gang, Sam Cooke

* New York Mining Disaster 1941, the BeeGees

* Five O'Clock World, the Vogues

* Just a Job to Do, Genesis

* 40 Hour Week, Alabama

* 16 Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

* Cumberland Blues, Grateful Dead

* Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man, Travis Tritt

* Fade Away, Stellar Road

* Welcome To The Occupation, REM

* Workin' On The Highway, Springsteen

* Everybodys working for the weekend, Loverboy

* Dirty Work, Steely Dan

* Bang the Drum all day, Todd Rundgren

* Waitress, Freddy Jones Band

 *No Thing On Me, Curtis Mayfield

* U.S Blues, The Grateful Dead

* Working For The Man, Roy Orbison

* Pay You Back With Interest, The Hollies

* Let's Work Together, Canned Heat

* Passenger Side, Wilco

* Back on the Chain Gang, The Pretenders

* Get A Job, The Offspring

* Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett (early in the song mentions a "Labor Day" show)

Yesterday I heard an interview of Ernie Banks (Mr. Cub) and Ernie Banks on Jonathan Brandmeier's show (around 9am). A coworker heard it too and she called it a "heartwarming interview." It was pretty cool. I believe you can hear the interview on Brandmeier's PodCast. This other Ernie Banks plays for the Washington Wild Things. You can read more about him here. Brandmeier had Mr. Cub on his show and called this young Ernie Banks. The younger Banks was clearly fresh out of bed and was not expecting the call. But he right off expressed his admiration for Mr. Cub.

What is it with Andrew Greeley?  Why does he feel compelled to smear and put down Sox fans? 

When the Sox won the World Series Greeley wrote an ugly, hateful smear on Sox fans.  Now he's at it again.  This time it's a gratuitous smear of Sox fans.

Who are those who reject compromise of a useless and criminally deadly war like Iraq? They are the blusterers, members of "veteran's organizations," mountain folk, crackers, West Texans, blue collar workers, evangelical clergy, neo-cons, Republicans, white ethnics, Sox fans...

Here's a heaping helping of the smears, stereotypes and lies spread by Greeley less than 3 years ago:

It's not as though the White Sox are a real Chicago franchise like the Cubs or the Bears or Notre Dame...the behavior of White Sox fans, an intolerable bunch of human beings when baseball is the subject (who beat up on wives of opposing players)...My seminary classmates who were Sox fans were insufferable on the days they won and we lost. More mature than they were, we Cub fans felt no need to cackle triumphantly when the Sox lost...

So, let's see Greeley thinks Cubbies fans are superior to Sox fans and he demonstrates this by stereotyping and spreading ugly smears.  Really, "father," WWJD?

 

 

 

The Wall Street Journal examines "The Decline of the National League."  Included is a graphic entitled: "The Long National League Nightmare." 

Of course, all said and done the history does not make an AL victory inevitable Tuesday nor another World Series Championship to the AL.

Interesting read.

They play the same game. They pick from the same pool of players. For some reason, though, they don't get the same results.

By just about every measure, the 16 teams in Major League Baseball's National League are inferior to the 14 in the American League. The AL has won 11 of the last 16 World Series, including three of the last four. The annual All-Star Game, to be played Tuesday, has practically become a farce: Not counting a 2002 tie, the AL has won 10 straight.

'I told my family and my friends that before my career ends, I want to play for the White Sox. Right now, my priority is helping this club. That's what I am trying to do. But I used to be, when I was growing up, I was a White Sox fan. But every time I say that, the Chicago Cubs fans get jealous and pissed off.'' - Carlos Zambrano, as quoted in the Sun-Times, March 16, 2008

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If you're looking for a bit of baseball fun reading, head over to Salon.com and read the article, "The 18 Best Jewish Ballplayers of All Time"

"So who are these 18 bashin' boychiks?"

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The Tribunes own Jimmy Greenfield says it's the 2006 Sox.

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Keep on the sunny side...

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