Daily Dose: Postcards from Venezuela

While we’re still not sure why the Cubs didn’t ever bring outfielder Adam Greenberg back up to the majors once he recovered from being drilled in the head with a fastball in his first big league at bat, they did send him to get a little more baseball...

Daily Dose: Golden Boy(s)

Lost amid the hubub yesterday (yes, hubub) of the Matt Lawton steroid fiasco, the collective exuberance over the Bulls’ season opener and an appearance here at Desipio by Gallagher III, was the fact that baseball handed out their Gold Gloves for the National...

Say it ain’t so!

It’s true, the Chicago Cubs are a haven for steroid abusers. Deadspin.com is reporting the long rumored American League playoff team outfielder who tested positive for steroids is none other than former Cub, Matt Lawton. That means that of the 12 players who...

Daily Dose: What’s the Rusch?

See, it’s fun to make bad “rush” puns today. The Cubs solidified their stranglehold on fourth place in the Central Division by re-signing Glendon Rusch for two more years. Rusch will make $2.75 million in 2006 and $3.25 million in 2007 for the...

Another game winner from our pal Jeff

The only thing that was missing was Brian Urlacher scaring the ball out of Terrell Owens’ hands. It was overtime, the Bears’ defense had the opponent’s offense in a bind and Jeff Garcia was looking to make a game winning TD pass. Just like a day...

Back to business

Yesterday marked the opening of business again for baseball. Technically, nothing really stops them (well, except for strikes and any time Bud takes a day off to have another boil lanced off his neck), but they don’t like to announce things or do any real...