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player ready...1. 2005 performance
Jeff Blake: He hasn’t played this preseason.
Nigel Thatch: He’s 0-2 with a 12.46 ERA pitching for the Schaumburg Flyers of the independent Northern League. He’s has given up 18 hits and four homers in 8 2/3 innings.
Winner: Blake. Sometimes less is more.
2. Before Chicago
Blake: He appeared on the Jets, Bengals, Saints, Ravens, Cardinals, and Eagles.
Thatch: He appeared on “American Dreams,” “Half & Half,” “Without a Trace,” “NYPD Blue,” “7th Heaven,” and “Moesha.”
Winner: Push. Neither won a title or an Emmy.
3. Fascinating tidbit
Blake: He’s the godson of former White Sox player Tim Raines.
Thatch: Ricardo Chavira, the “Desperate Housewives” actor, plays the cameraman in the original Leon ads.
Winner: Blake. And it was a better book than a movie.
4. Winner is . . .
Blake. Thatch has seen action on the field in Chicago while Blake has yet to take a snap. Of course, if Blake never plays a down for the Bears, we’re all winners here.