Cubs offseason target? A big fish?

Oct 20, 2008 | Andy

Really, my main goal in life is to become one of those quasi-media people who people near the Cubs organization float rumors to.  I may have actually met that goal! Somebody who could concievably know e-mailed me to say that when the Cubs gathered in Arizona...

Even more indignity?

Oct 20, 2008 | Andy

The best thing about the Chicago media is how predictably lame they are. We all knew last night, after seeing the previously woeful Tampa Bay Rays win the American League pennant, that our friends at the newspapers would spin it as more indignity for the Cubs. The...

Oh, those poor Rays fans

Oct 17, 2008 | Andy

When Tampa Bay Rays fans greet each other, eventually they ask, “How many weeks have you been a fan?”  Wait, no, I’m sure there are some actual long-suffering Rays fans, fans who paid money to watch Fred McGriff do whatever crap Fred McGriff did, or...

An open letter to TBS Sports

Oct 14, 2008 | Andy, Featured

Dear TBS Sports, Why do you hate sports so much?  What did it ever do to you?  Did the Rafael Ramirez/Bruce Benedict Braves teams of the ’80s sour you so much on sports that you have to try to torture innocent baseball fans all over America? Because, to put it...

Podcast: Reliving the unbearable

Oct 9, 2008 | Podcast

As much fun as the podcasts have been this year, this one?  Not so much.  We got to pick through the wreckage that was the Cubs brief and spectacularly incompetent playoff run. So come on, enjoy it with us!  Who wouldn’t want to spend 80 minutes of their...