Mike North

And, as I said, three hours a day.

I don't know how the hell you did five.

It was amazing.

Although in Chicago, you had a little more to talk about.

Well, yeah, I did.

But here's my problem.

I quit drinking in 81.

So I would go to the bar, but... He didn't drink that much either, though.

I wouldn't stay until, you know, like the old days when they used to.

I remember once at 4 a.m.

in the executive house, we were upstairs drinking with Blue Moon Autumn.

I mean, how many people have had that experience?

You know, the alcohol did give you a lot of experiences and being in the bar.

But, oh, yeah, those conversations always.

You know, it would have been fun to have a tape recorder back then when you get eight cranky sports writers going.

And we all thought.

Every time a game went extra innings or, you know, overtime or there was a big delay or something, we all took it as a personal insult.

They were doing it only to us.

Kind of like, you know, because now newspapers are basically dead.

Our deadline, you know, our paper is now being printed in Des Moines.