He’s off to a better place

I get asked from time to time (and more often, lately) if I get tired of devoting so much of my little corner of the Interwebs to ripping really bad sports columns. Oh, I do. But if they keep writing them, I’ll keep hacking them.  Somebody’s got to do it....

Phil Rogers: Baseball dipshit

Some things are just too predictable.  People will drive like morons during the first snow storm of the year, Best Buy will fail to have more than two checkout lanes open during Christmas shopping and Phil Rogers will take every chance to remind us that he...

Be careful what you wish for

The Cubs announced yesterday that Ryne Sandberg is going to manage the AAA Iowa Cubs this season.  This news, that their beloved Hall of Fame second baseman is that much closer to managing the “real” Cubs has some Cubs fans really excited.  Then again,...

You must be this tall to be traded to the A’s

Because you can’t spell “Attack of the Angry Dwarves” without A’s, the Cubs have found a taker for awful, little, utility infielder Aaron Miles, and all it cost the Cubs was Miles, a million dollars and a balder version of Jack Cust. The Cubs...

Where the crappy economy shows in baseball – arbitration

Yesterday the Cubs officially announced that they would not be offering arbitration to four of your all-time favorite Caucasians.  Gritty, bald, bad-backed centerfielder Reed Johnson; sometimes-dominant, of-injured pitcher Rich Harden; terrible mongoloid Kevin Gregg;...