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Yesterday, Cubs owner (well, one of the owners), Tom Ricketts gave the first preseason address from an owner to his Cubs team since back in 1964 when PK Wrigley asked a room full of players, “You want any gum?” The media were not allowed in the room to hear what Tom told the team. But then [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Because Cardinals players need more ways to kill themselves

Posted on 22 February 2010

The other day Major League Baseball announced that it was banning firearms from clubhouses and it was surprising. Surprising that they hadn’t done that…oh, 100 years ago, or so. But you knew that somebody would be pissed off about it. Even if a gun has about as much place in a big league clubhouse as David [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Community projections are for idiots

Posted on 22 February 2010

There’s this thing–it’s not a trend, exactly, more like a folly–going on at other sites (one, in particular) where they ask for their readers to guess what stats players will end up with at the end of the season. They average those stats and they publish it like it means something. Well, it does means something. [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Best magazine cover…ever

Posted on 10 February 2010

Our good friend Al Yellon is the proud editor of a fine Cubs preview publication titled…well, actually that’s kind of what we’re confused about. Check out the cover over here. Either Derrek Lee’s head is covering up a pretty important pair of letters, or this is the kind of magazine that just reinforces a very misguided [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

What are the Cubs packing?

Posted on 09 February 2010

Thanks to the hard hitting work of the Sun-Times investigative unit the world has a list of just exactly what the Cubs equipment staff have packed for the trip to lovely, destitute Mesa, Arizona. And, it leads to ghey-est headline we’ve had here since “Will Corey ever see a third ball?” While the list of what [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

How to report the news

Posted on 08 February 2010

The BBC’s Newswipe with an explanation of how to report the news. It’s pretty much exactly right. The only thing they’re missing is a segment on how to be like Chris Hansen and convince a pederast he can leave the house only to have him tackled by nine angry sheriff’s deputies. Share on Facebook Continue Reading

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Andy

Cubs 2012? God help us all

Posted on 07 February 2010

Since I was a kid I’ve always looked forward to picking up The Sporting News baseball preview magazine. There’s a lot wrong with it, of course, it’s written way too early in the offseason to catch all of the transactions, their predictions suffer as a result, and well, it’s The Sporting News. But it’s always been–along [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Chicago Now 185, Readers 0

Posted on 05 February 2010

When the Tribune Company launched Chicago Now last spring, they did so to great fanfare. People said that it was going to revolutionize how people in Chicago shared ideas and information. Wait, there wasn’t any fanfare. Nobody even cared they were doing it. The only reason we even knew they were launching was because they’d convinced [...] Continue Reading

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Uncle Marty

Guest column: Theriot’s pretty good!

Posted on 04 February 2010

Dear people of the Internet, I’m Andy’s Uncle Marty and after arguing with him on the telephone last night for a good ten minutes about the merits of Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot, he called me a smart guy and dared me to write down some of my thoughts on the matter, and he said he would [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Cubs sign Nady; assign Sheets to AAA Oakland

Posted on 26 January 2010

The Cubs got good news twice today. First, they beat out all the other teams just clamoring to sign two-time Tommy John Disease survivor Xavier Nady to share bunk beds in right field with Kosuke Fukudome. Then, they convinced Billy Beane and the A’s to get Ben Sheets in shape so they can trade for him [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Did Bud pick the Cubs spring training home?

Posted on 24 January 2010

A lot of us raised eyebrows (well, not Mike Quade, he doesn’t have any to raise) when as kind of a footnote to the Cubs announcement that they were going to stay in Mesa, Arizona for the next 25 years, we learned that Interim Commissioner of Baseball For Life Bud Selig “encouraged” the Cubs to [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Cubs Report: Wait, is this the roster?

Posted on 22 January 2010

In less than a month the Cubs will commune in the desert to prepare for the 2010 season. I’m not sure if you’ve heard but it apparently has been 102 years now since they last won the World Series. Who knew? Somebody should make a big deal out of this. It [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Just how dumb do they think we are?

Posted on 12 January 2010

Since it shocked no one, and I got in plenty of cheap shots yesterday, I wasn’t going to write again about Mark McGwire’s half-assed admission that he used steroids during his playing days in Oakland and St. Louis. But given the Ari Fleischer-fueled spin machine (seriously, that’s who he hired) that keeps foisting miserable Tony LaRussa [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

Wow! What’ll we learn next, that Willie Wilson used coke?

Posted on 11 January 2010

Well here’s stunning news, gigantism survivor and former baseball slugger Mark McGwire has admitted to something everybody in the world already knew he did. Except for Tony LaRussa. In a statement to the Associated Press, McGwire admitted that he used steroids, HGH, Darvon, Vagisil, Ben Gay and in a pinch he’d rub a little jalapeno in [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

A Byrd in the hand is worth…oh, screw it

Posted on 31 December 2009

Last year, I was driving in my car on New Year’s Eve when I heard that the Cubs had signed Aaron Miles to a two-year contract. This year, I was in the car again, when I heard that the Cubs had signed Marlon Byrd to a three-year contract. Clearly, I need to stop driving. In the end [...] Continue Reading

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Andy

The Oughts – Killers and Thrillers – 2003

Posted on 29 December 2009

Our look back at the fourth bestest decade in Cubs history continues with the yin, the yang and the up your yingyang of the seasons when the Cubs at least sort of contended. Those would be the 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Cubs. Each season included a win that made you believe that “it” was [...] Continue Reading

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