Jul 12, 2010 | Andy
I have one of those lame Cubs fact a day calendars on my desk and every morning, I tear off another day, I read the fact or the trivia question and then I unsuccessfully try to slit my wrists with the little piece of paper I’ve torn off. Today, the trivia...
Apr 18, 2010 | Andy
So what do we really know about ESPN 1000 “baseball insider” Bruce Levine? We know that he lives with his mother’s amateurishly embalmed corpse in a motel where she’s been placed near a window (we don’t know any of this.) We know that at...
Feb 24, 2010 | Andy
Yesterday, Cubs owner (well, one of the owners), Tom Ricketts gave the first preseason address from an owner to his Cubs team since back in 1964 when PK Wrigley asked a room full of players, “You want any gum?” The media were not allowed in the room to...
Jan 26, 2010 | Andy
The Cubs got good news twice today. First, they beat out all the other teams just clamoring to sign two-time Tommy John Disease survivor Xavier Nady to share bunk beds in right field with Kosuke Fukudome. Then, they convinced Billy Beane and the A’s to get Ben...
Dec 31, 2009 | Andy
Last year, I was driving in my car on New Year’s Eve when I heard that the Cubs had signed Aaron Miles to a two-year contract. This year, I was in the car again, when I heard that the Cubs had signed Marlon Byrd to a three-year contract. Clearly, I need to...
