Len Kasper and Bob Brenly rock the Cubbie Blues
Posted by: Richie Rich in Announcers, Charity, Cubs
It’s Limbo week here at HRD.
You know Limbo Week - the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day when the office is void of management (yay) and the other people who need to use their vacation days before they lose them.
If you’re one of the few who are working this week and need something to do … well I suppose you could watch the Chicago Cubs television announcers, Len Kasper and Bob Brenly, do a little rocking out at their Len and Bob Bash back in January 2007.
Here’s Len and Bob at last year’s bash, performing two songs. Len Kasper is on the mic and Bob Brenly is on guitar (sporting the backwards white baseball cap).
Here’s Len and Bob covering Folsom Prison Blues …
And here’s Len and Bob covering Summertime Blues …
Interesting that they covered two songs with “Blues” in the title.
They’ll be doing it again this year at the Second Annual Len and Bob Bash at the Chicago House of Blues on January 17, 2008 in advance of that weekend’s 2008 Cubs Convention. All proceeds to benefit Chicago Cubs Charities. The 2007 Bash raised over $50,000.
Say what you will about the way Steve Stone left the Cubs’ broadcast booth in 2004 (after the Cubs fell apart in late September), but the Cubs did a fabulous job when they hired Kasper and Brenly.
They’ve connected with Cub fans, have a cool blog, and bring passion and fun to their call of the game.
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December 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I really loved Steve Stone but some of the comments he has made in the past after leaving have been a little off putting. I didn’t want to like Len and Bob, but over the past season or so they really started to grow on me. I wish somehow they could bring Pat and Ron Santo to the television booth for a couple innings every game.
If you have never listened to a Cubs game on WGN radio you are missing out on an experience to say the least…think Harry Caray’s later years with more baseball experience and less Bud Light. Ron Santo is a fricken nutjob on the radio and its almost as fun to listen to his reaction when the Cubs lose as it is when they win.
To say he gets into the games he broadcasts would be an understatement.