What year did Juan Bautista lead the league in homers?

Jan 31, 2011 | Media Hacks

Spring training starts two weeks from today, but our old pal Phil Rogers is already in midseason form.  Why, in Sunday’s Tribune he managed to make a case you can’t expect Albert Pujols to be able to live on just $14 million a year, he gave Kyle Lohse a...

Phil’s putting us on, right?

Nov 22, 2010 | Cubs

Some days you know Phil Rogers’ writing sucks because he was careless and used the wrong name for a guy, say for example the name of a dead Colombian drug kingpin instead of a Giants’ third baseman.  Sometimes you know it sucks because he’s just not...

Everything’s for sale

Nov 15, 2010 | Cubs, Media Hacks

I’m not going to pretend to be angered by the Cubs’ decision to paint the Wrigley Field marquee purple for this weekend’s epic tilt between a couple of middle of the road Big Ten football teams. I will say that it looks dumb, and that Northwestern...

DeLuca and Phildo try to out hack each other

Oct 29, 2010 | Media Hacks

In today’s Sun-Times editor/baseball “expert”/nincompoop Chris DeLuca reports that sometime last year the White Sox and Marlins discussed a trade of Marlins’ slugging outfielder Mike Stanton for Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. You read that right. ...

Phil aches for Ryno

Oct 20, 2010 | Media Hacks

When the Cubs passed over fan favorite Ryne Sandberg to hire Mike Quade as their new manager yesterday, it was sure to do two things. 1. Give the idiot horde reason to yell nonsensical things like, “The Cubs OWE Ryno a chance to manage!” or...