Feb 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured
Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think...
Apr 27, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories
The current edition of the Cubs is awful. They’ve won six of their first 18, which is awful. But the Cubs know awful better than anybody else. And so, here’s the start of a short series titled: Terrible Cubs of a Recent Vintage, a (fake) oral history of...
Feb 13, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris. Â It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a...
Dec 11, 2011 | Featured, MLB
One of the least surprising things is that baseball players are still using performance enhancing drugs. What is surprising is that they are still getting caught. The latest dummy to get caught is Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun. He doesn’t look like a...
