“[While Granite City's Oktoberfest shows its European roots, it's not alone, says Chase.] One of our mainstays is our Brother Benedict's Bock, which is a traditional German beer, ... It's our own interpretation, but yes, the influence of Europe is there.”
“Web analytics, CRM, it all comes from direct marketing. Online marketers think they invented it, but they didn't. [Direct marketers] hold the primary skill sets, but they don't know they're sitting in the catbird seat.”
“In the early nineties, I went from being a generalist - Campbell's Soup kind of stuff - to focusing on high tech. Headhunters said, 'Don't do that, you'll put a cap on your career.' Old school advertising could be very surface-y. You didn't have to do a lot of research for a 30-second commercial.”
“His command has greatly improved, and so has the movement on fastballs. He developed a changeup that he didn't have in high school, and he's grown up physically.”