Daily Dose: The Dopes

As the 2004 season gets smaller and smaller in our rearview mirror, one thing becomes painfully obvious. The Cubs were full of dopes last year. Some were obvious. We knew Chip Caray was a dope from the moment he opened his yapper. We knew Wendell Kim was a dope from...

Daily Dose: Bulls Fever! Catch it…(and die)

Blame it on the circus, I guess. The Bulls’ seven game west coast road trip in November hid from us what should have been obvious. They’re actually kind of good. They got off to a hideous 0-9 start thanks in part to an opening night overtime loss to the...

Daily Dose: Feel the Jock-u-larity

Rumors abound that the Cubs will complete a trade today for Twins leftfielder Jacque Jones. Who they will trade for him isn’t really known, because really, it’s only fun to make up half a trade rumor, the other half is where all the work is. It’s...

Daily Dose: So long, buddy?

As far as knowledgable baseball sources go, Chris DeLuca fits right in somewhere between a seven-year-old girl who wonders how many “points” the Cubs have and a syphillitic elephant, so when even he figures out that Sammy Sosa’s days are literally...

Daily Dose: Hey, this ain’t a beauty pagent (thank God)

When Notre Dame made it’s second-to-last ill fated hire, Athletic Director Kevin White said that George O’Leary was straight out of “central casting.” He was Irish, Catholic, had an O and an apostrophe in his name and it was his dream to coach...