WBC “Live” – Team Japan v. Team USA

Read Saturday’s “Open Letter to Tom Ricketts” OK, this isn’t really Live since I’m not posting it until after the fact, but I sat through three hours of World Baseball Classic semifinal so you wouldn’t have to.  It’s the US...

An open letter to Tom Ricketts (and family)

Dear Tom Ricketts (and your dad and your sister and whoever else is going to own the Cubs in a month or so), I see from credible reports (wait, Carrie wrote that?  Oops.) that you and the Tribune Company are getting close to completing the first part of the sale of...

Dead..or National?

There are probably two things that will really point out to you just how terrible your baseball franchise is.  First, if you are the go-to team when guys want to start a franchise in their baseball video games, that’s bad.  Because most guys want to take a...

Dog days of spring

I like the World Baseball Classic as much (actually probably a lot more) than the average fan.  But it still doesn’t make any sense to me that spring training has to be longer because of it.  Shouldn’t it be the same size, or even shorter given that...