More Mark Grace, please.
During his too-short, three-inning visit to the Marquee Sports Network booth during the channel's debut Cubs game Saturday night, Grace called the Cincinnati Reds baseball's equivalent of the NFL's underperforming Cleveland Browns.
The former Cubs star rhapsodized about how, as a player, his diet featured jelly doughnuts, Philly cheesesteaks and Tootsie Rolls.
He reminisced about playing first base during Kerry Wood's storied 1998 20-strikeout game.
"I could have put my glove on my head," Grace said.
The Cubs beat the Athletics on Saturday in their exhibition opener, 12-2, but the real winner was Grace, who was funny and charming and insightful.
The guy was the life of the party.
He even read promos with gusto.
There was much talk during the game about the geegaws and gimmickry Marquee will have at its disposal once the season starts.
There were loads of promos touting the Cubs-centric programming this partnership between the ball club and Sinclair Broadcast Group will yield.
Someday, perhaps, the channel's microphones _ pinned Saturday on Jason Heyward during batting practice and Anthony Rizzo during the first few innings _ will yield something nearly as entertaining as announcers Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies kept saying they did.
For now, however, it's Grace's brief guest turn that should entice fans, not the technology.
If Marquee is smart, it will figure out a way to make him a full-timer.
There were, of course, other winners and losers from Marquee's launch.
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