Cubs Live? — Cubs at Philadelphia, Noon, 8/4

Pitching matchup Cubs: Mark Prior, 7-3, 3.26 ERA Phillies: Brett Myers, 9-5, 3.21 ERA Lineups Cubs Matt Lawton, lf Todd Walker, 2b MVLee, 1b E-ramis, 3b (E-ramis batting clean up? Will wonders never cease?) Jeromy, rf Neifi!, ss (Sixth? Woof.) Jose Macias, cf (Because...

Daily Dose: Nice throw, Engelberg

Hello again, everybody, your old pal Karry Ling here with today’s Daily Dose. I got a call from Andy last night around 9:30 p.m. and it was pretty much just a stream of profanity directed at Michael Barrett, lazy Cubs’ pitchers and Dusty and it ended with,...

Daily Dose: Gland handing?

It has to be fitting that a team that has graced us with nearly a full century of ineptness, is now struggling because of the side effects of flop sweat. Only the Cubs would find a pitching staff full of guys with overactive sweat glands. Just imagine the puddles...

Daily Dose: Listen to the crowd!

WGN Radio isn’t full of dumb guys. Sure, they foist Kathy and Judy at their listeners every day, and Dean Richards has been voted “man” most likely to lose a pillow fight to a girl scout for nine straight years, but they market the hell out of a...

Daily Dose: Now you can’t shut him up

Most Hall of Famers are given a 20 minute forum and have nothing to say. Ryne Sandberg had plenty to say, because he’s been waiting 24 years to say it. In a speech designed to make a case for the player he says is the “best” he’s ever seen,...