Apr 27, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories
The current edition of the Cubs is awful. They’ve won six of their first 18, which is awful. But the Cubs know awful better than anybody else. And so, here’s the start of a short series titled: Terrible Cubs of a Recent Vintage, a (fake) oral history of...
Apr 26, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks
Our good friend Paul Sullivan posted a shot of a horde of seagulls hanging out in the left field bleachers yesterday late in the Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley. The photo consisted of several seagulls, two drunk guys in Cubs jerseys and four people huddled up in the...
Apr 24, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks
When last we left our fearless ranking hero, he was trying to rhyme Lewis and Holland with Spahn and Sain, and he was marveling at how normally docile Atlantonians could be so creatively vile towards Ryan Braun. Phil Rogers’ MLB power rankings Rangers hold...
Apr 22, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Cubs fans take a lot of shit, and most of it is undeserved. I said “most” of it is undeserved. Â If the way many Cubs fans (not us, of course…we’re the brightest of a largely dull bunch) are reacting to the realities of watching a rebuilding...
Apr 17, 2012 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
Power rankings go back to the days of JG Taylor Spink (not really) and I was being paid to half-ass them 15 years ago (really) for various sites. Â One thing about them has never changed. Â They’re pointless. Â They’re an easy way to churn out a column...