Steve Stone Is Back

Okay, so it's looking like March 4th is the best day of 2008 so far. At least it is for White Sox fans. Not only did Brett Favre announce his retirement this morning, but Chris Singleton has apparently left the White Sox radio booth to go do some Baseball Tonight work at ESPN. (Why am I not surprised that ESPN would hire Singleton? He's incredibly boring and has trouble completing sentences at time. It's basically a perfect fit.)

His replacement? Steve Stone.

This is amazing news because listening to Chris Singleton on the radio with Ed Farmer was intolerable. They were horrible together.

Stone was already slotted to be doing a few games in the radio booth with Farmer and Singleton this season, but it's now going to be a full time job, and I couldn't be happier about it. I've never made a secret of my fondness for Steve Stone, even though he called Cubs games. He was the main reason I even watched Cubs games growing up, well, besides the fact that I didn't have cable in my room as a kid, and there was also the possibility of seeing the Cubs lose.

Now if only we could convince ESPN to hire Darrin Jackson away, and we could move Stoney into the television booth with Hawk Harrelson.