Feb 26, 2007 | Andy
While the Cubs are hard at work in Mesa doing the kinds of things that will help them win games (like Jock Jones learning how to stay in rundowns long enough for…oh, never mind, Jock’s just busy getting picked off over and over again), the rest of the NL...
Feb 20, 2007 | Andy
On the day when Jim Hendry and Carlos Zambrano’s agents made an arbitrator sit alone in a Phoenix hotel conference room while they worked out a $12 million deal for Carlos, Cubs fans all over were given a gift that no doubt will keep on giving. As intrepid...
Feb 16, 2007 | Andy
$300 million doesn’t buy what it used to (it used to buy 600 million packs of bubblegum cards and now it buys about 147 of them), and so the newer, more expensive Cubs arrive in camp much better than when last we saw them, but are they good enough? That’s...
Feb 13, 2007 | Andy
You’re really not a big time athlete until you learn to refer to yourself in the third person. Rickey Henderson perfected the art, and took it to heights no one ever expected. Rickey is infamous for referring to himself only as Rickey. Not just after...
Feb 6, 2007 | Andy
Can it? Losing the Super Bowl, especially that soggy mess we saw Sunday has a way of ruining what, by virtue of winning enough to go to game itself, was a great season. The 2006 Bears were fun to watch, fun to root for and given the sad sack, mediocre nature of most...
