What are the Cubs packing?

Feb 9, 2010 | Andy

Thanks to the hard hitting work of the Sun-Times investigative unit the world has a list of just exactly what the Cubs equipment staff have packed for the trip to lovely, destitute Mesa, Arizona.  And, it leads to ghey-est headline we’ve had here since...

How to report the news

Feb 8, 2010 | Andy

The BBC’s Newswipe with an explanation of how to report the news. It’s pretty much exactly right.  The only thing they’re missing is a segment on how to be like Chris Hansen and convince a pederast he can leave the house only to have him tackled by...

Cubs 2012? God help us all

Feb 7, 2010 | Andy

Since I was a kid I’ve always looked forward to picking up The Sporting News baseball preview magazine.  There’s a lot wrong with it, of course, it’s written way too early in the offseason to catch all of the transactions, their predictions suffer...

Chicago Now 185, Readers 0

Feb 5, 2010 | Andy

When the Tribune Company launched Chicago Now last spring, they did so to great fanfare.  People said that it was going to revolutionize how people in Chicago shared ideas and information. Wait, there wasn’t any fanfare.  Nobody even cared they were doing...

Guest column: Theriot’s pretty good!

Feb 4, 2010 | Uncle Marty

Dear people of the Internet, I’m Andy’s Uncle Marty and after arguing with him on the telephone last night for a good ten minutes about the merits of Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot, he called me a smart guy and dared me to write down some of my thoughts on...