Cubs Pipe Dream Live: Cubs at Colorado, 4 p.m., 8/19

Pitching matchup: Cubs: Mark Prior, 8-4, 3.90 ERA Rockies: Byung-Hyun Kim, 3-9, 5.33 ERA Lineups: Cubs Matt Lawton, lf Disgusted Bat Flip, 2b MVLee, 1b E-ramis, 3b Jer-o-4-my, rf Neifi!?!, ss Corey Patterson, cf Hank White, c Mark Prior, p Rockies Luis “The one...

Daily Dose: As good as it got

If you need to hire an MIT grad to help you figure out your team’s chances of making the playoffs, those chances can be summed up like this, “You are screwed.” Here at Desipio, we want to help Cubs’ fans realize just how unlikely a playoff...

Daily Dose: Still kickin’ (sort of)

This is why we have such manly love for Carlos Zambrano. The Cubs have entered the “every game is a must win” portion of the schedule and the task of beating snarky little Roy Oswalt to avoid losing a “must win” series was pretty daunting. For...

Daily Dose: We’re not firing people! We’re restructuring!

All things must change to something new, to something strange. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Desipio has been around, for better or worse, since July 24, 1997. While most of you have only stumbled upon it in the past year or two, we’ve been here cranking out...

Daily Dose: The future?

All it took for the Cubs to get back on their feet was a visit from a team worse than the Phillies, Mets and Reds. So we’d all like to send a big thank you down to our pals in St. Louis. The ones who are going to watch a 100 win team lose in the first round of...

Gentlemen, start your stretchers!

Somewhere, Jeff George’s phone just rang. Bobby Wade said, “As far as the team, we prepare for the worst.” And Bobby, you usually get it.