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Remembering Les Grobstein — and the Lee Elia rant The radio icon’s death brings back memories of the former Cubs manager’s tirade in 1983 and a column-that-wasn’t two decades later.
Nobody is going to see this.'” Levine’s brother was former Chicago sports radio personality Les Grobstein (aka “The Grobber”), the keeper of the flame of the Elia tirade.
Les Grobstein spent more than 50 years in sports broadcasting. He's best known for preserving Cubs manager Lee Elia's profane rant after a 1983 loss.
Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports radio reporter and talk show host who recorded Lee Elia’s famous profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs fans, has died.
Les Grobstein had worked in the Chicago radio scene for five-plus decades, most recently hosting overnights on 670 The Score since 2009.
As Lee Elia once said, 85 percent of the world worked and the other bleeping 15 percent watched day baseball at Wrigley Field. But there was only one Les Grobstein, who did both.
Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports radio reporter and talk show host who recorded Lee Elia's famous profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs fans, has died.
Les Grobstein, a longtime Chicago sports radio reporter and talk show host who recorded Lee Elia's famous profanity-laced postgame rant about Cubs fans, has died.
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