Bonkers for Baseball? Post Your Passion on Patch!

Peanuts, beer, hotdogs and summer sun — it's baseball season in Illinois and we want to hear all about the our Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles high school teams, the Kane County Cougars and of course the Cubs and the Sox!

Calling all sports fanatics, Patch wants you! Are you passionate about the Kane County Cougars? How about the Cubs or Sox? Are you wild about Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles high school baseball or softball? A local league? Attend every Little League game? Then we want hear all about it!  Part of the Patch mission is to strengthen communities and improve the lives of their residents, but we can't do it without you. Our Local Voices section allows members of the community — from cooking enthusiasts to local politicians and everyone in between—to interact and post directly to the site. These posts then appear on the homepage, in the daily newsletter and are shared by editors via Facebook and Twitter. The best thing about sharing your stuff …

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Jeff Ward

Chickens? We Don't Need No Stinking Chickens!

Aldermen are bad enough. Do we really want to compound them with backyard fowl?

Lord, please save us from bloggers of any kind. As for me, I can't tell you how grateful I am for editors like Rick Nagel, John Russell, Paul Harth, Tim West, Mike Cetera, Dave Parro and the others who took the time to bestow their wisdom and vast expertise upon me, for I have seen what can happen when some of you are left to your own devices. Just because you happen to have a random thought, that doesn’t mean you really need to write it down, and it certainly doesn’t mean you should share it with the rest of us. What’s that old adage about opening your mouth and removing all doubt? That said, teenage blogger Jeff Hersheway does have some talent, but he’s the rare exception that proves the rule. (Jeff: Email me for some suggestions on how …

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Jeff Ward

8:33 pm on Monday, August 27, 2012

Hal, I was wondering when someone would pick up on that. And thus the joke! Jeff   more ›