Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 7:05 pm

Pitching matchup: Reds: Fabio Arroyo 9-14, 4.31 ERA Cubs: Dick Mountain 9-8, 3.81 ERA Lineups Reds Norris “Smells like I’m sitting on the” Hopper, cf Jeff Keppinger, ss Griffey the Younger, rf Brandon Phillips, 2b VORP, lf Eddie Encarnacion, 3b...

Two in hand beats what at Busch?

I’m not going to pretend I was ever any good at math.   But at an early age I learned how to calculate a baseball team’s magic number (sometime around September 1984) and in the year’s since it’s been like second nature to pick the day the...

Fine, nice, whatever, you evil bastards

Just when you think it’s safe to abandon all hope, let the bitterness crust up on you like Carol Marin’s pancake makeup and pack it in for the winter, the Cubs do this to us. We know better.  We’ve seen this movie.  It ends pretty well.  If...

Death Spiral Live: Cardinals at Cubs, 2:20 pm

Pitching matchup Bathub Meth Brewery: Joel Pinata 5-3, 4.28 ERA Cubs: The Bull Moose 14-7, 3.85 ERA Lineups Shitbirds Some asshole who tucks his ears into his hat, 3b The 33 year old Jap who looks like a nine year old, lf The “27” year old slugger with the...

What ‘over’ feels like

It’s time to play the old game of, “If I told you…” The Cubs, in their present state (disarray) are a prime example of that. If I told you, back in the spring, that with 20 games to go, the Cubs would be within one game of first place, have all...