Virtually unlimited nonsense

Virtually unlimited nonsense

This morning I got wind of a new Al Yellon article so poorly thought out, so unreasonably daffy and so incompetent that I cursed the Twitter Gods for suspending my account because I wanted to share some good old Steve Stone motherboy flesh with the world. It was going...
Somebody’s red ass is showing

Somebody’s red ass is showing

Our good friend Paul Sullivan posted a shot of a horde of seagulls hanging out in the left field bleachers yesterday late in the Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley. The photo consisted of several seagulls, two drunk guys in Cubs jerseys and four people huddled up in the...
An open letter that should have stayed shut

An open letter that should have stayed shut

Some days it doesn’t pay to be busy.  I was tied up all day, and so this morning, when I read Al Yellon’s open letter to Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer about re-signing Kerry Wood, I tried the old, “clear my calendar, THIS is all I’m doing...
Al and Tom, a farce in three acts

Al and Tom, a farce in three acts

You remember, because nobody could ever forget, that last year, Al Yellon had a sitdown with Cubs “owner” Tom Ricketts, where he asked Tom 100 questions, and 94 of them were “Who owns the Cubs?” After a thorough grilling like that it’s no...
Marking their territory

Marking their territory

The monumental Ricketts-Yellon sit down is over.  Al ran the third part of his largely uninformative,  unintentionally hilarious interview on Friday.  If you’re wondering why the Cubs would grant somebody like Yellon this access and not a real writer like...