Baseball players are too dumb to play this slow

Feb 27, 2015 | Featured, MLB

David Ortiz calls the pace of play rules that baseball is implementing this year “bullshit.”  Relief pitchers are worried that they’ll be hurried too much when they come into games because they’ll “only” have two minutes to get...

It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before

Feb 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think...

Look at this gem: Hot Days of August!

Feb 12, 2013 | Cubs

YouTube is the greatest.  Check this out.  Here’s a commercial free version of a late season special produced by WGN-TV in 1984 recapping the rise of the Cubs.  You get Steve Stone in a leisure suit, Harry in a sissy blue sweater, Jim Frey creepily staring...

Soul crushing flashback: Cubs-Padres Game 5, 1984

Feb 11, 2013 | Cubs

All winter long I’ve been tempted to take the time to watch the replay of game five of the 1984 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Padres.  Why?  I mean, I know how it ends, and it’s ugly and painful.  But I was 11 years old when it...

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...