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Phil Rosenthal: More Mark Grace, please — but fewer sponsor plugs and Harry Caray impressions: Winners and losers from Marquee Sports Network's 1st Cubs broadcast

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

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