Les Grobstein can remember numbers and facts in sports that blows my mind. This guy can be found on the Score radio station at night time and he can remember the time and date of a Lew Alcinder rebound in the final seconds of a game in the early seventies that prevented a regular season NBA game from going to overtime. Les Grobstein goes by the nickname "grobber' and he grabs all the American sports stats of the major American sports stats and can pick his brain sports storage and bring it up amazing Chicago sports radio fans since 1977. Les Grobstein though is weak on international sports and didn't mention anything on the New Zealand India matchup in the finals of the Cricket20. Les Grobstein and other Americans are jingoists when it comes to sports and the sport of cricket is never brought up by the Grobber.
Nor is Rugby and Australian Rules football and other international sports that are not followed in America or promoted because corporate financing has not found a way to profit from inducing popularity of these sports. It seems to someone like Lester that too many sports will clog his brain and he will only follow what the American sports programmers and advertisers will tell him to follow and speak of so despite the growing number of Indo-Pako's in this country Grobstein ignores the sport of Cricket that basically is little different from baseball. a Grobstein can't understand the passion and complexities that make Cricket a huge sport in the former British dependencies and how merry the sport is especially compared to the boredom and ritual apsects of baseball that are a pale imitation of this grand old sport from England. cricket is a huge sport and like soccer often ignored by WSCR and other huge sports talk radio programming in America and undoubtedly if money was thrown into these sports dudes like Les Grobstein would be remembering past stats and facts like he was a fucking computer. Grobstein acts like he is Gods gift to sports facts but the only facts he knows are big American sports and couldn't tell you who was in last years cricket championship or what the North Melbourne kangaroos record was in 1990.
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