Shameless Self-Promotion: The Heckler's Joe Malonecki steals the show on NBC-5

The White Sox might have a new mascot on their hands. Joe Malonecki rocked the NBC-5 morning show live from US Cellular Field Friday and next thing you know the South Siders sweep the Cubs. Malonecki definitely had something to do with it. More than the crappy Cubs pitchers or their sad offensive output anyway ...

Shameless Self-Promotion: Mariotti mention Len and Bob's shoutout for some reason

Sun-Times megacolumnist Jay Mariotti doesn't miss much apparently. For some reason he worked Len and Bob's shoutout of The Heckler in his column Saturday. Kinda weird, but we'll take it:

Up in the TV booth, you could see Len Kasper preparing for comic relief by showing his audience the Wrigleyville parody rag, The Heckler, which revealed Kasper's new gig as a reality-show host while breaking news that partner Bob Brenly was injured in a post-game fight with the Pittsburgh Parrot.

Please, someone, lift us from the madness.

Thanks Jay, I guess. Read the whole thing here.

Shameless Self-Promotion: The Heckler gets major shoutout during Cubs' national broadcast

During today's WGN Cubs broadcast Len Kasper and Bob Brenly plugged The Heckler's May '08 issue, which just came out yesterday. They joked about a couple articles about each of them and Len (who's long been a FOTH -- Friend of The Heckler) held the issue up to the camera. Here are pics to prove it:

Spotted: Ben Gordon at Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige show

While other NBA stars were competing in something called the playoffs, a not-so personable Ben Gordon took in the Jay-Z/Mary J Blige show at the United Center Sunday night. He was gracious enough to pose for this photo, but not gracious enough to smile. Oh well. Get 'em next year Ben.

By Brad Zibung, editor in chief

Spotted: Chick fight outside Wrigley

Much has been made recently of unruly Cubs fans at Wrigley Field. I'm definitely not one to argue with that, but when something as special as a girl fight breaks out and we get a short grainy cell phone video of it, you're damn right we'll share it with our readers.



Special thanks to FOTH (Friend of The Heckler) Katy for risking life and limb (presumably) to take this video and then share it with us.

Shameless Self-Promotion: Oh man, we're media whores

It was a huge week for The Heckler. In addition to releasing our April issue -- which marked the start of our sixth year of publishing excellence -- we hosted the 100th Annual Next Year Day with Rick Telander and Too White Crew (oh yeah, Bill Murray showed up ... ). We also got all kinds of ink in the press. We were mentioned or referenced in:

The Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Tribune

ESPN.com ("Headliner of the Week")

CNNSI.com ("Make this your mission")

The Chicago Sun-Times (again!)

Red Eye (Under "Sightings")

WGN-AM (No link on this one. Just trust us.)

WGN-TV Morning Show (No link on this one either. You'll have to trust us again.)

Not bad for one week, eh?

Spotted: Bill Murray partying it up with The Heckler and friends

Saturday's Next Year Day event at Cubby Bear with The Heckler, Rick Telander and Too White Crew drew nearly 1,000 people, including none other than Bill Murray. Check out more pics by clicking here.

He even jammed with Telander's band "Del Crustaceans." Watch the clips here.