Stranger Things Have Happened

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22 Sep 2008 10:04 PM

I live in Wisconsin so technically I should be a Brewers fan who sends bad wishes in the direction of Chicago and their world famous Cubs. The problem is I love Eddie Vedder and the Pearl Jam font man has just released a song for the Chicago baseball team that I find intoxicating.

The new tune (which was created at the request of Cubs great Ernie Banks) is called "All the Way." The song is available on Pearl Jam's Web site right now, but you can hear it being played almost non-stop on Chicago radio stations and in bars near Wrigley Field.

"Someday we'll go all the way," the refrain goes. "Yeah, someday we'll go all the way."

The song's lyrics reference the glaring fact that the Cubbies haven't won a World Series in 100 years, but are a step closer to ending that streak now that the team defeated the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday to clinch the NL Central title.

So why did Banks ask Vedder to pen the inspirational tune? While most people assume that the Pearl Jam singer is from Seattle (home of the grunge sound made famous back in the 90s), the award-winning "Evenflow" crooner is actually a native of Chicago and is a longtime Cubs fan, so the choice was not as strange as most people first thought.

If you are looking for strange facts consider this equation: Talking caveman + TV exposure = Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame.

Apparently, it's not as hard to be inducted after all.

Those annoying (to some) Geico Caveman are now part of advertising history. The hairy, yet articulate dancing cavemen joined the Serta Sheep as the most recent advertising icons elected to the Walk of Fame (courtesy of an online poll taken by the American public).

The U.S. Postal Service slogan "We Deliver For You" and the UPS tagline "What can Brown do for you?" also were inducted Monday. Past Walk of Fame inductees include Tony the Tiger, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the Geico Gecko and Colonel Sanders.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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Libby Pelham (12876) 23 Sep 2008 11:49 AM

Ah, I love the cavemen - they definitely deserve the Walk of Fame! Can't remember if I've mentioned it before or not, but one of the cavemen is played by Ben Weber, who played Skipper on the first couple of seasons of Sex & the City.

Michele Cheplic (37339) 24 Sep 2008 04:39 AM

I guess his first series did better than his most recent show.

Libby Pelham (12876) 24 Sep 2008 05:21 AM

Yeah, but he did disappear from SATC after the first or second season.