Ron Santo RIP.....fucking cancer.....

Ron Santo RIP. 

Bladder cancer. 

Fucking cancer.

I know---have you EVER seen a reference to a sports figure on this blog?  But I grew up in Lisle....I'm a daughter of WGN.  I grew up listening to Wally Phillips in the morning, whom my mother disliked but listened to anyway.  I didn't get it at the time but I do know.  By the time I got to high school we had a deal in which whomever got up first got to choose the radio station.  So it was WGN for her and WLS for me.  Larry Lujack in the morning.  I loved WLS in those days.  Bob Sirott was my all time favorite (and still is) and I had a soft spot for John Records Landecker---mostly because of the 'records' in his name (this was years before I met Melissa Records of course).  And this was before I got older and migrated first to the Loop and then to XRT and then away from music on radio.

But at heart a WGN girl I am.

Then there came a time when I would get in the car and find that Ernie had left the station set on WGN.  He was a big Kathy and Judy fan.  And when I'm tired of all the cds in the car I still will put WGN on in the morning despite all the changes they have made in the last year or so.

And so as a daughter of WGN I came to know Ron Santo.  And now he's gone but he seems to have been very, very well loved. 

Fucking cancer.