Remember This Crap – 2008 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast

May 12, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap

The Cubs went back to the playoffs for a second straight year, and won just as many postseason games as they did the year before. But this was a 97 win team with a Japanese star in right field, a Cardinals retread in center, and a rookie of the year catcher. It was...

Pictures and catchers report

Feb 21, 2012 | Cubs, Featured

The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over.  To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof.  Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not...

A musky Winter Meeting Preview

Nov 30, 2010 | Cubs

The Baseball Winter Meetings are being held next week in the very place that I got married just four short years ago.  No, they’re not being held in the rumpus room at Del Boca Vista, but rather at the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando....

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...

Cubs Report: Wait, is this the roster?

Jan 22, 2010 | Andy

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...