The curse of numbers

Feb 23, 2009 | Andy

The Cubs are so old they actually predate the time when every player wore a number.  No Cub wore a number on his jersey until 1932, nearly a quarter century after the Cubs last won a World Series.  Oh great, another thing to add to the list of things invented after...

Meet the Cubs

Feb 20, 2009 | Andy

Fresh off a 97 win regular season and a perfectly awful postseason, the Cubs are back in Mesa and getting ready for the longest Spring Training in memory.  Somehow, adding the World Baseball Classic to the mix has resulted in more spring training games and an extra...

The all-steroid podcast

Feb 9, 2009 | Podcast

With everything going on in baseball, Andy and Kerm focus on the important things, like who played centerfield for the Astros in the Kerry Wood 20 strikeout game, which 2001 Diamondbacks are still getting paid by the team and how A-Rod was a quitter for stopping...

An open roster spot for…

Feb 2, 2009 | Andy

It’s Groundhog Day, and fittingly the Cubs are clearing space on their roster, and it might just mean we get to relive one of the most disappointing chapters of a recent Cubs history so chock full of them that it boggles the mind. On Monday the Cubs traded...

NBA Power Wankings – 01 Feb 2009

Feb 1, 2009 | Matt Turvey

Now that the Super Bowl is thankfully over for another year, it’s time to trot out the February 2009 edition of desipio.com’s NBA Power Wankings. Like every single other two-bit sporting website, these authoritative ‘rankings’ are really little...