Jul 9, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The Dusty era had ended, Sam Zell was in town screwing up the Tribune and trying to pump up the value of the Cubs so he could sell them to some unsuspecting dopes in Omaha, Alfonso Soriano, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Cliff Lee were new to...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Former Daily Herald Cubs’ reporter Bruce Miles is back to discuss his new blog at brucemiles.net, his new book, “The Phenom” and to talk a lot about the Cubs current and past. Has the Cubs’ six-game losing streak given the team permission to...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
All Cubs seasons are fun to re-live (well, most of them) but some are more fun than others and this time the wheel of crap has gifted us the incredible, ridiculous, insane 1998 Cubs. Sammy Sosa homered every day, Kerry Wood struck out everybody, Terry Mulholland...
Jun 25, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The season opened in the land of the rising sun and sunk pretty quickly afterwards. Don Baylor was the new Groove in town and he brought back a mediocre former Cubs catcher and an actual lead off man. Kerry Wood didn’t debut until May after surviving his bout...
Jun 23, 2021 | Featured, Movie Deep Dive, Podcast
Chevy Chase says it’s his best movie and who are we to argue? We give Fletch the Movie Deep Dive treatment. We discuss the long tortured road it took to the screen in the first place, the differences between the book the movie, the stuff Chevy just made up, and...
Jun 16, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
It’s time once again to spin the wheel of crap and this time it lands on 1996. Jim Riggleman’s fighting Cubs tanked down the stretch (surprise), Sammy was bad at the start then great and then got hurt, Ryne Sandberg came back, Doug Jones hit the road,...
