Jul 6, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
It was a season so bad that the manager made up an excuse to go to Florida to take care of his mother to get out of it early. The last vestiges of the 2008 Cubs were either leaving after or during the season. Opening Day was a bad omen for the rest of the season and a...
Jul 9, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The Dusty era had ended, Sam Zell was in town screwing up the Tribune and trying to pump up the value of the Cubs so he could sell them to some unsuspecting dopes in Omaha, Alfonso Soriano, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Cliff Lee were new to...
Apr 20, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap and it lands on the Lou Piniella’s final full season with the Cubs, 2009. You probably remember it best for Milton Bradley just being a complete psychopath, or for Kevin Gregg kicking his own team in the balls in a...
Aug 17, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured, MLB
Remember in 2007 when Lou Pinella lost his shit and kicked dirt all over a third base umpire? He got suspended and the Cubs went on their first decent winning streak of the season. We did a running diary of game two of his suspension on June 4, 2007 against the...