The half assed interview: Mike Fontenot

It’s my own fault. From time to time I feel a pathological need to go over to Bleed Cubbie Blue and read what the nitwits are up to. I should know better by now. Today, if you go there, you are greeted by a way-too-large, extreme close up of a very sleepy, or...

Podcast: Hey, we got a guest!

On this very special Podcast, Andy and Kerm are tired of talking to each other, so they bring in a guest. Chuck from Ivy Chat (www.chucktochuck.com) stops by to talk about the Cubs’ sale, Alfonso Soriano and all kinds of other nonsense. Listen to it here, or...

Cubs channel their inner Kerouac

It never did make any sense. How could the beast of the National League struggle so much on the road? If they got you anywhere near their place, they smacked you, stunned you and dragged you back into their cave and had their way with you. But if they ventured out...

Daryle finally pinches one off

He hadn’t had a hit in three weeks. He’d only come through with hits four times in 40 pinch hit at bats. But for some reason, when Daryle Ward, yes, the Fat Kangaroo himself, dug in with one out in the ninth inning on Friday night in Florida, you just had...

Cubs Live! — Cubs at Braves (DH), 8/13

Pitching matchup Game One, 12 p.m. Cubs: Not so Grand Marquis, 7-7, 4.73 ERA Braves: Charlie Morton, 3-5, 5.70 ERA Game Two, 6:15 p.m. Cubs: Rich Harden, 1-1, 2.10 ERA Braves: Jorge Campillo, 7-4, 2.83 ERA