OH, HE'S INSPIRING SOMETHING, ALRIGHT:  Peter Cetera will not be joining Chicago at the Rock and Roll Non-Country Popular Music of the 1950s and Beyond Hall of Fame induction ceremony, because ...

In January, Cetera posted a letter on his website saying he was willing to perform "25 or 6 to 4" that night, also suggesting that all of Chicago's living members, past and present, be invited to play the song.... 

Lamm was communicating with Cetera by email and said "there was always a desire and assumption on my part" that Cetera would be there and perform during the ceremony. But Cetera apparently had other ideas. "He decided he wanted to play [the song] in a different key if he was going to play with us, which is definitely not going to happen, and then he wanted to play with his band but not with us and sing his songs or sing whatever songs the Hall wants him to sing," Lamm said. "It's all very strange."

PANTS ON THE GROUND:  My total Idol viewing amounts to probably 20 minutes, but yeah, when 538 538's about it in honor of the "series finale" we'll link to it.  (And probability of the show being back on the air in some manner by Spring 2018 seems to me to approach 1.)

IT'S A WRAP!!  Erik Bauersfeld, voice of Admiral Ackbar, has died.

CROSSOVER:  The National Basketball Hall of Fame today announced that its 2016 induction class will include Allen Iverson, future WWE HoFer Shaquille O'Neal, Tom Izzo, Sheryl Swoopes, Yao Ming, and Jerry Reinsdorf.