I resent the inference I’m in it for the cash

A few weeks ago I made a vague reference to the fact that soon you’d be able to get all of your favorite quotes from the 2005 Cubs’ season in a more convienient and costly book form. Well, your long wait is over. The newest addition to your Desipio library...

Jim Hendry’s Wheel of Misfortune

It’s true that Jim Hendry doesn’t have the look of one of those new Saberweenie GMs. You know, of the Theo Epstein, Josh Byrnes, Andrew Friedman ilk. He doesn’t, or maybe can’t, tuck in his shirt. He combs his hair with the Mordecai Brown...

Daily Dose: First place Bears, last place Neifi

Robbie Gould kicked a game winner in front of about 12,000 fans in a 90,000 seat stadium and let’s just say NFL Films wasn’t around for the potential of the Bears’ 20-17 win being tonight’s HD Game of the Week on the NFL Network. The Bears have...

Daily Dose: Postcards from Venezuela

While we’re still not sure why the Cubs didn’t ever bring outfielder Adam Greenberg back up to the majors once he recovered from being drilled in the head with a fastball in his first big league at bat, they did send him to get a little more baseball...

Daily Dose: Golden Boy(s)

Lost amid the hubub yesterday (yes, hubub) of the Matt Lawton steroid fiasco, the collective exuberance over the Bulls’ season opener and an appearance here at Desipio by Gallagher III, was the fact that baseball handed out their Gold Gloves for the National...