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Chicago’s legendary coaches and managers all had furry upper lips when they clinched championships. Mike Ditka of the Bears. The Bulls’ Phil Jackson. Ozzie Guillen from the Sox. And the Blackhawks’ Joel Quenneville. Must be the luck of the ‘stache.
“There’s no denying the performance-enhancing ability of the mustache,” said Aaron Perlut, president of the American Mustache Institute. Related Can you guess that celeb ‘stache?
The so-called facial hair think tank and faux advocacy group on Wednesday is set to announce Chicago as America’s most “mustache-friendly” city, citing our reputation for harboring the likes of firefighters, police officers and athletes with lip fuzz. The style is expected to get more attention in November as Chicagoans grow lip sweaters for fundraisers such as Movember and Mustaches for Kids.
But is the ‘stache – which undoubtedly has seen its popularity climb in recent years—still cool? “I think it’s sexy,” said Erica Badie, 27, a social worker who lives in the Loop. Badie, whose boyfriend had a mustache, is all about it. She carries a mustache-shaped mint case and even has a mustache-design pillow at home. And the trend doesn’t seem to be fading.
Look no further than Urban Outfitters, where shoppers can buy mustache mugs, pint glasses and even bandages sporting the motif. And a number of bars have hosted mustache-themed parties. The American Mustache Institute, based in St. Louis, will host its annual ‘Stache Bash on Oct. 28 at Joe’s Bar near Goose Island. That’s when the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year will be announced.
Although the mustache has had a dry spell for years, evidence of an uptick abounds. Celebs such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney have been known to groom their upper lip whiskers, as have hipsters and millennials. Last month, the Chicago Beard Union sprouted up as a local chapter of Beard Team USA, a competitive facial hair group that has had members featured on IFC’s reality show “Whisker Wars.”
Q101.com pal Jeremy Scheuch, 32, of Humboldt Park, grew his handlebar mustache eight years ago for a theme party. He decided he liked it and has kept it ever since. Not even Scheuch’s wife, Maya, who has been with him for three years, has seen him without his ‘stache—except in pictures.
“It’s really playful. It’s a nice feature for his face,” she said. She, interestingly, has her own instant mustache – in the form of a tattoo on her index finger. Scheuch’s stache is definitely a conversation starter. Some people tell him it looks horrible. Others ask how he gets it to stay on because they think it’s fake, especially around Halloween. Guys congratulate him on it. When a girl says, “I like your mustache,” he sometimes gives her a smart-ass remark: “I like yours too.”
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Source: http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/ct-red-mustaches-20110927,0,5789917.story
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Upon Weezer’s announcement as headliner of Riot Fest, there was much scoffing and dismissive hand gesturing in the world of music nerds. I should know; I was one of the naysayers. Part of that has to do with Riot Fest being an ostensibly “punk” festival, featuring myriad bands who many of us thought lost to time, the rest of us still wearing their t-shirts on a weekly basis. Weezer, especially with regard to the band’s later catalogue, does not fit that mold. To many, promoters might as well have booked Gucci Mane (pending imprisonment) to headline at Congress this past Sunday.
But from everything I’ve seen this weekend at Congress, the merits of each night’s headliner has had nothing to do with staying punk, or embodying any particular genre. If that were the case, no one would have been at Danzig on Friday. The real excitement of Riot Fest lies in the multigenerational, resiliently relevant fanbase that each of these bands seems to have accrued. To use Danzig’s term, it’s about “legacy.” While the Descendents and Danzig crowds may have been more monochromatic, at least in wardrobe, Weezer seemed to play to a chunk of fans from each year of their almost two-decade career. And no one was rolling their eyes.
Despite the sudden passing of former bassist Mikey Welsh on Saturday night, Weezer brought a now-typical surplus of goofy fun to the Congress on Sunday. With powerhouse touring drummer Josh Freese on the kit, the band plowed through a career-spanning set of hits. Pat Wilson joined Rivers and Brian Bell on guitar, occasionally shredding through solos with commendable proficiency—the weirdly impeccable “Paranoid Android” cover best exhibited this.
Welsh’s lone contribution to the Weezer discography, the Green album, got its fair share of representation. “Hash Pipe” set the Congress ablaze, and “Island in the Sun” received a somber treatment, with Rivers kicking off the song solo and his bandmates joining him piece-by-piece.
Every member of Weezer has figured out how to sing exactly like Rivers Cuomo. As the bespectacled, soccer-shirt-and-khakis wearing frontman made his way around the stage, introducing the band, each did a dead-on impression of the rock star. If you looked away, you would’ve thought Rivers to be the only man onstage.
To condemn Rivers of egomania, as he guitarlessly jumped up and down during songs off Raditude, minutes after playing the stellar Pinkerton b-side “I Just Kicked Out the Love of My Dreams,” was certainly the operative gut reaction. But when he returned to the stage after a brief intermission, dressed head-to-toe in the same outfit from the Blue album cover (sans glasses, mind you), we remembered why we loved this band in the first place.
Like a lot of people—and certainly a lot of people sitting with me in the mezzanine for both sets—I’ve followed Weezer’s career “arc” with an ever-evolving grimace on my face. Unfortunately, and a bit ironically, my distaste for the new material has driven me further and further away from the early records I’ve always loved. Blue, in particular, has fallen victim both to time and my increasing hatred of the “Sweater Song.”
Source: http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nightlife/music/14979921/riot-fest-2011-weezer-at-the-congress-theater-live-review-photo-galle
God is this a sweet pic.
Q101.com has long reviled Larry Merchant. At times he has seemed drunk during his post-fight rambling soliloquies. Between him and the wretch-inducing HBO PBP man Jim Lampley, it’s been tough to sit through boxing on HBO for decades. That’s just our opinion. However…
The recent tussle between Merchant and the equally-addled Floyd Mayweather Jr. had us rooting for Larry. It may have been the only time we dug him. Now he’s facing slings and arrows from all sides, and in this fight, we’re actually rooting for the old coot. Read on:
HBO commentator Larry Merchant is a well-respected figure in the world of boxing.
The sports journalist has called hundreds, if not thousands of bouts in his 30-plus years with the organization, though no moment has been more significant than that of his in-ring encounter with pound-for-pound great, Floyd Mayweather.
After Mayweather knocked out former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz on Sept. 17, the colorful fighter drew the ire of Merchant.
After a deliberate clash of heads from Ortiz in the fourth round, the fighters were separated by referee Joe Cortez, who dropped the ball when he didn’t send both fighters to their respective corners. He called for a time-in while Ortiz appeared to distract, and shortly thereafter Mayweather connected on a powerful left-right combination that ended the bout.
Merchant infamously entered the ring questioning Mayweather’s tactics, to which the boxing great did not take kindly, vehemently calling for the HBO representative to be fired. Merchant responded by saying, “If I was 50 years younger, I’d kick your ass.”
Though he runs the largest mixed martial arts organization, UFC president Dana White has long been a boxing fanatic, even operating his own boxing aerobics classes before mogul-ing it up with the Las Vegas-based promotion.
Following the Mayweather-Merchant blowout, White didn’t hold back any punches about how he felt the veteran boxing commentator handled the situation.
“…Merchant gets in there—this babbling, senile, insane idiot. This guy has been around for way too long, he gets on there again and just embarrasses HBO,” the UFC exec began.
“Dude, you’re 107 years old. You have no business being on television anymore.”
Needless to say, White’s comments toward the 80-year-old (not 107) Merchant did not go unnoticed by the HBO representative, who complimented White on his endeavors by becoming a financially successful man thanks to his exploitation of this “Fight Club-esque” sport.
“Anyone who can make a multimillion dollar business out of street fighting has to be respected,” Merchant said when he spoke with BoxingScene.com.
“My opinion is that anyone is allowed to put up a tent, put on a show and invite people to come. And obviously he’s had a lot of success. Good for him.
“I don’t watch it. I don’t get a so-called sport in which you can have a 6-2 record and be called a world champion. I just don’t appreciate the finer points of MMA.”
Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/868545-hbos-larry-merchant-responds-to-ufc-president-dana-white
Stay tuned for White’s response. He won’t let this transgression go on without retort.
Why is this jolly guy smiling? 'Cause he's seen the 'Human Centipede 2' Trailer and you haven't, that's why.
If there was one thing the world was clamoring for, it was a lesson in psychology and film studies to go alongside its ass-to-mouth torture porn.
Director Tom Six returns with the sequel to his somehow irresistibly vile puke-inducer, “The Human Centipede,” adding a self-awareness to the film that shows Six knows just how insanely disgusting he had made the original.
In this sequel — which had advancing screening attendees literally vomiting in the aisles — a bug-eyed sociopath becomes obsessed with the first film and seeks to create his own human centipede, which is 12 humans conjoined, rear ends to mouth, sewn together to make one scatological nightmare.
Knives, hammers, screams, bearded psychologists, worried mothers and barren warehouses mark the two minute trailer for “The Human Centipede 2 [Full Sequence],” which can be enjoyed by the whole family on October 7th. Except in England, where it is banned. Here’s Scott Weinberg, columnist from The Guardian, to explain why:
As a relative fan of the first film, I sat down with Part II expecting … something crazy, gross, and potentially enjoyable. What I got was an hour of sweaty boredom and then 30 minutes of grungy, filthy, visceral misery. A plotless, ugly, grating mess that exists for pure shock value and nothing else. It’s a dreary slog through one man’s frankly obnoxious obsession with our basest and messiest bodily functions. And while it sucks to give Tom Six the press he clearly desires, this is easily one of the most disgusting films ever made.
Here’s the trailer (good luck…you’re on your own):
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/human-centipede-2-trailer_n_983176.html
Let this vid serve as your reminder: We are only 11 months or so away from the Air Guitar Championships…The practicing is beginning in earnest around Chicagoland. Are you ready?
Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in orange. (Photo: Laughing Squid)
Q101.com HIGHLY endorses the work and beliefs of Tim Ferriss. What? WHAT?!! You don’t know who he is?! Well, he is the author behind a must-have book if you want to break free from “Cubical Land”, The 4 Hour Workweek, as well as some other very intriguing and even trans-formative books. He’s also the entrepreneurial mind behind many, many businesses. You should read his stuff, even if you like Cubical Land…you will learn tips and strategies to rock it there, and in your personal life too, even if being the boss (we prefer “owner”, naturally!) doesn’t appeal to you. With any luck, he’ll be a Q101.com Blogga someday! His insights are ridiculous!
Read on from Tim’s blog here mon frere:
I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA. It was 2007. We were both in hoodies, had a shared penchant for the F-bomb and burritos, all of which led to a caffeine-infused mindmeld.
It would be the first of many.
The matchmaker then introducing us was the prophetic and profane Dave McClure, General Partner of 500 Start-ups, which is now headquartered just down the street from Red Rock.
Mr. Noah has quite the start-up resume.
He was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, had previously worked for Intel (where he frequently took naps under his desk), and had turned down a six-figure offer from Yahoo. Since we first met, Noah’s helped create Gambit, an online gaming payment platform and a multi-million dollar business; and AppSumo, loved by entrepreneurs and moms everywhere. He also helped pour fire on both the 4-Hour Workweek and 4-Hour Body launches.
The purpose of this post is simple: to teach you how to get a $1,000,000 business idea off the ground in one weekend, full of specific tools and tricks that Noah has used himself.
He will be your guide…
For some reason, people love to make excuses about why they haven’t created their dream business or even gotten started. This is the “wantrepreneur” epidemic, where people prevent themselves from ever actually doing the side-project they always talk about over beers. The truth of the matter is that you don’t have to spend a lot of time building the foundation for a successful business. In most cases, it shouldn’t take you more than a couple days.
We made the original product for Gambit in a weekend. “WTF?!” Yes, a weekend. In just 48 hours, some friends and I created a simple product that grew to a $1,000,000+ business within a year.
Same deal for AppSumo. We were able to build the core product in one weekend, using an outsourced team in Pakistan, for a grand total of $60.
Don’t get me wrong–I’m not opposed to you trying to build a world-changing product that requires months of fine-tuning. All I’m going to suggest is that you start with a much simpler essence of your product over the course of a weekend, rather than wasting time building something for weeks… only to discover no one wants it.
I know what you’re thinking: “Yes, Noah, you are SO amazing (and handsome), but what can I do this weekend to start my own success story?”
Here are the steps you can take right now to get started on your million dollar company:
At this stage, you are simply looking for something that people are willing to spend money on. So grab a seat and write down a list of ideas that you think might be profitable. If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas, try using the methods below to speed the research process along:
Review top sellers on Amazon. Find products that already have guaranteed customers, then build something complementary. A good example of this is Dodo making a gorgeous $60 case to buy for your iPad (which costs over $500, and over 5 million sold). Think of all the things you do on a daily basis. Anything done more than once has potential for a product or service to improve the process. For me, one of those products was a mirror I could hang in the shower. It saves me tons of time while shaving, and now I don’t know how I ever lived without it. Be cognizant of products you use and frequently complain about. Before Gambit, we were constantly asking our payment tool partners for certain features, yet our requests were always rejected. That was the impetus for us to create Gambit for our own games. Check completed listings on eBay. This allows you to see how well certain products are selling. It’s also an easy way to measure sale prices of items and gauge the overall percentage of the market that’s receiving bids (i.e. in demand). Look for frequent requests on Craigslist gigs. These listings are from people actively searching for someone to give their money to in exchange for particular services. Try searching for certain keywords (e.g. marketing, computers, health) and keep track of the total number of results displayed. Evaluate the most popular keywords and see if you can create a product or service around those requests. Browse the Q&A on LinkedIn. On average, LinkedIn users are worth $134, so there is a good chance they’ll have money for you if you can provide solutions to their problems.
Review top sellers on Amazon. Find products that already have guaranteed customers, then build something complementary. A good example of this is Dodo making a gorgeous $60 case to buy for your iPad (which costs over $500, and over 5 million sold).
Think of all the things you do on a daily basis. Anything done more than once has potential for a product or service to improve the process. For me, one of those products was a mirror I could hang in the shower. It saves me tons of time while shaving, and now I don’t know how I ever lived without it.
Be cognizant of products you use and frequently complain about. Before Gambit, we were constantly asking our payment tool partners for certain features, yet our requests were always rejected. That was the impetus for us to create Gambit for our own games.
Check completed listings on eBay. This allows you to see how well certain products are selling. It’s also an easy way to measure sale prices of items and gauge the overall percentage of the market that’s receiving bids (i.e. in demand).
Look for frequent requests on Craigslist gigs. These listings are from people actively searching for someone to give their money to in exchange for particular services. Try searching for certain keywords (e.g. marketing, computers, health) and keep track of the total number of results displayed. Evaluate the most popular keywords and see if you can create a product or service around those requests.
Browse the Q&A on LinkedIn. On average, LinkedIn users are worth $134, so there is a good chance they’ll have money for you if you can provide solutions to their problems.
Now that you’ve found an idea, it’s time to assess whether there’s a big enough pool of prospective buyers. In this step, you’ll also want to ensure your market isn’t shrinking, and that it fares well compared to similar markets.
I use Google Trends, Google Insights, and Facebook ads when I’m in this part of the process. They’re great tools that help me evaluate the growth potential of my target market.
For example, let’s say you decide to build information products for owners of Chihuahuas (remember “Yo quiero Taco Bell”?). Here’s how I would check to see if there are enough customers:
1. Search Google Trends for the term “chihuahua” and other similar words (e.g. poodle, dogs) for comparison: (Click image to expand) We can see that the word “chihuahua” has a decent search volume (relative to “dogs”), and that “poodle” isn’t as popular. It also looks like the number of searches for “chihuahua” has been relatively stable for the last few years. 2. Double-check on Google insights: Google Insights is great, because it breaks down the search data by location (i.e. what regions the searches are coming from), by date, and what they’re searching for (news, images, products). Click here to see the full report for the above chart. 3. Look at the total number of people available on Facebook for dogs: 3.1 million. Not bad, not bad. And for Chihuahuas: 84,260 people. Score.
1. Search Google Trends for the term “chihuahua” and other similar words (e.g. poodle, dogs) for comparison:
We can see that the word “chihuahua” has a decent search volume (relative to “dogs”), and that “poodle” isn’t as popular. It also looks like the number of searches for “chihuahua” has been relatively stable for the last few years.
2. Double-check on Google insights:
Google Insights is great, because it breaks down the search data by location (i.e. what regions the searches are coming from), by date, and what they’re searching for (news, images, products). Click here to see the full report for the above chart.
3. Look at the total number of people available on Facebook for dogs:
3.1 million. Not bad, not bad.
And for Chihuahuas:
84,260 people. Score.
You can also see if there is a large property that you can piggyback on.
Paypal did this with eBay, AirBnb is doing it with Craigslist home listings, and AppSumo looks to the 100 million LinkedIn users. If you can find a comparable site with a large number of potential customers, you’ll be in good shape.
What helped me with finding $1,000,000 worth of customers for AppSumo was studying my successful competitors; specifically, Macheist. Their site did a Mac-only deal that generated more than $800,000. Macheist shares their sales revenue publicly, but you can use your own business acumen on the CrunchBase list to see which business you want to replicate. For instance, you might research Airbnb.com, discover that they have a profitable and growing marketplace, then decide to create a similar service for alternative verticals.
I like to create a Google Spreadsheet of the key numbers for my competitors’ businesses. Below is an example of what that might look like for Macheist in their Mac bundles. [Warning to the haters: This may not be accurate, but I used these numbers just to get a rough idea of the business’ potential.]
Once you’ve found your idea and a big pool of potential customers, you’ll need to calculate the value of those customers. For our example above, we’ll need to estimate how much a Chihuahua owner (i.e. our customer) is worth to us. This will help us determine the likelihood of them actually buying our product, and will also help with pricing. Here’s how we do that:
1. Find out how much it costs, on average, to buy a Chihuahua (about $650). This is the base cost. 2. See how much it costs to maintain a Chihuahua each year (i.e. recurring costs). Looks like it’s between $500-3,000. For this example, we’ll call it $1,000. 3. Look up their life expectancy, which is roughly 15 years. This is the number of times they’ll have to pay those recurring costs.
1. Find out how much it costs, on average, to buy a Chihuahua (about $650). This is the base cost.
2. See how much it costs to maintain a Chihuahua each year (i.e. recurring costs). Looks like it’s between $500-3,000. For this example, we’ll call it $1,000.
3. Look up their life expectancy, which is roughly 15 years. This is the number of times they’ll have to pay those recurring costs.
Therefore, a Chihuahua’s average total cost of ownership is:
[$650 + ($1,000*15)] = $15,650
Damn… you could buy a lot of burritos with that kind of cash. Silly dog owners.
In any case, these owners are already committing to spend a LOT of money on their dogs (i.e. they are valuable). After putting down $650 on the dog itself and an average of $80/month on maintenance (a.k.a. food), spending $50 on an information product that could help them train their Chihuahua–or save money, or create a better relationship between them, etc.–does not seem unreasonable. Of course, the product doesn’t have to cost $50, but we now have some perspective for later deciding on a price.
Now we need to utilize the TAM formula (a.k.a. Total Available Market formula), which will help us see our product’s potential to generate a million dollars.
Here’s the TAM formula for estimating your idea’s potential:
(Number of available customers) x (Value of each customer) = TAM If TAM > $1,000,000, then you can start your business.
(Number of available customers) x (Value of each customer) = TAM
If TAM > $1,000,000, then you can start your business.
Let’s plug in some basic numbers to see the TAM for our Chihuahua information product:
(84,260 available customers) x ($50 information product) = $4,213,000
We have a winner!
Okay, obviously you are not going to reach 100% market penetration, but consider the following…
1. This is only through Facebook traffic.
2. This does not include the 5,000,000 monthly searches for “Chihuahua” on Google:
3. This is only for one breed of dog. If you find success with Chihuahuas, you can easily repeat the process many times with other dog breeds.
4. This is only for one product. It’s far easier to sell to an existing customer than it is to acquire new ones, so once we’ve built up a decent customer base, we can make even more products to sell to them.
By all measures, it appears that we have a million dollar idea on our hands. Now we can move on to the final step!
CLICK HERE FOR STEP 4 AND THE EXCITING CONCLUSION, WHICH INCLUDES A CONTEST YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT!
Source: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/09/24/how-to-create-a-million-dollar-business-this-weekend-examples-appsumo-mint-chihuahuas/#more-5754%27
Q101.com can’t live in a world where Abba is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but not the Beastie Boys. They’ve had quite a year…it may get better (not that we think they care about something like this). The Cure would get our vote if we didn’t sit through two stunningly and unnecessarily boring shows of theirs in the 90s. The Chili Peppers, to us, seems like a slam dunk too. We shall see. Read on:
Nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2012 are in. Guns N’ Roses, the Cure, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Eric B. and Rakim, the Spinners, the Small Faces/Faces, Freddy King and Rufus with Chaka Khan are all hitting the ballot for the first time, while previous nominees Beastie Boys, Laura Nyro, War, Donovan and Red Hot Chili Peppers also made the cut. The top vote-getters will be inducted on April 14th, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio, home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Artists that released their their first single or album in 1986 or earlier were eligible for this year’s ballot. “The 2012 Nominees embody the broad scope of what ‘rock & roll’ means,” said Joel Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. “From vocal groups to hip-hop, from singer-songwriters to hard rocking artists, this group represents the spirit of what we celebrate at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-the-cure-red-hot-chili-peppers-nominated-for-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-20110927
Kiss him goodbye. Ozzie is off to a team that had a game that drew less than 1,000 people this year. Who says money isn't everything?
“People are happy after they make money, f— it.’’-Ozzie Guillen
Wowoweewah is it gonna be quiet around this town. The Bears look DOA (hey, at least they’re under the cap to the tune of about $19 mil…Woot for the McCaskeys making 19 mil more this year!), The Cubs are deader than dead for year 103 and counting, and The Bulls look like they’ll be on the shelf til January if not for the entire season. Now this: Reminiscent of when Ditka was shown the door in ’93, The Sox are apparently parting ways with the manager who brought them their first championship in 88 years in 2005.
Come Tuesday morning, the silence on the South Side could be more deafening than golden.
Until then, Ozzie Guillen was going to spend his final days on the White Sox managerial post much like he came in to it – saying whatever he wants, wherever he wants, whenever he wants.
According to multiple sources, the Sox and Florida Marlins are in the final stages of completing a deal that will send the never-boring Guillen to South Beach, ending his eight-year stay with the organization he grew up in as a player and helped guide to a World Series in 2005 as a second-year manager.
The end is expected to become at the conclusion of Monday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at U.S. Cellular Field, sources said. Sources also said Guillen told his players before the game that it would be his last as Sox manager.
As far as the coaching staff, expect mass changes there, as well, all except pitching coach Don Cooper, who according to sources, already has a deal on the table to stay with the organization.
What Guillen would talk about on the record to reporters on Monday was that he indeed met with board chairman Jerry Reinsdorf earlier in the afternoon at the United Center, and “We talked about it for maybe 30, 35 minutes. I told Jerry to do this meeting back in Mexico because no matter where we do the meeting, people are going to talk and they’re going to put me in this situation we’re in right now. Yes we talked about it. We talked about different things, my future here, how we’re going to do it, what he thinks about the ballclub, what way we’re going. I left the meeting with nothing.’’
Guillen didn’t exactly slam the door on possibly returning for next season, but it was more bob and weave, almost leaving the ball back in Reinsdorf’s court.
“I just told him how I feel,’’ Guillen said. “I feel like I should be back here for more years. If not, well, you know how I feel. I don’t want to be here if that happens. That decision doesn’t have to be made. I’m still under the White Sox’ contract and we’ll see what happens.’’
Sources have indicated, however, that privately Guillen walked away from the meeting knowing his days with the Sox are over, and the talk was more about the details of the split. It was not heated, and if anything, emotional from both sides.
General manager Ken Williams was not involved, and considering Guillen and Williams have not had any real conversations over the last month, it was probably better that Williams wasn’t there.
As far as what Guillen was looking for from the Sox all along, he pulled no punches on that.
“F— more years. I want more money,’’ Guillen said. “I don’t work here for years. No, I want more money. Years, what, I’m going to die poor with the White Sox? Hell, no. Listen this is my job. It’s the only thing I can do. I have to make money out of somewhere. I’m not a doctor or a lawyer, where you’ll have a job for the rest of your life.
“Life is about money. People don’t believe that. People are happy after they make money, f— it.’’
Source: http://www.suntimes.com/7895136-417/ozzie-guillen-out-managing-last-sox-game-tonight-sources-say.html
We’re at the Blink 182 Show at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater….John texts us and asked “if I write Q101 4 Life on my chest and show up to FMBA will you give me a shirt?”
Our response, why stop there? Get Q101 4 Life tattooed on your chest in gansta letters and we’ll consider giving you company STOCK.
Being the animal that John is, he came….he saw….he tracked US down and proudly presented his work of art. A few weeks later superfan John opened his mailbox to find……another set of bills and junk mail. BUT, he also found a small package from Q101! WAIT….I mean a A LARGE PACKAGE FROM Q101….ENORMOUS package.
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