Daily Dose: Schmidt for brains

There are times, of course, when hazing can be dangerous. You’ll hear about it in a few weeks when college kids go back to campus and some freshman girl drinks twice her body weight in Michelob Ultra and passes out on some train tracks and gets run over. But...

Daily Dose: Putting the ! in Neifi!

Many of our intrepid readers were upset on Friday when we effectively canned the season after a pair of disastrous losses in Cincinnati. Some of you thought we were submitting to knee-jerk reactiveness, others just figured, accurately that I’m a dope. While the...

Daily Dose: Rearranging the deck chairs

According to published reports in both Chicago and Cincinnati, Cubs’ General Manager Jim Hendry and Reds’ General Manager Dan O’Brien met yesterday about swapping a couple of Cubs’ pitchers (of the Welleymeyer-Mitre ilk) to the Reds for Austin...

Cubs Live: Cubs at Cincinnati Reds, 11:30 a.m., 7/21

Pitching matchup: Cubs: Greg Maddux, 8-7, 4.57 ERA, 2994 strikeouts, 892 walks Reds: Eric Milton, 4-10, 6.93 ERA, 948 strikeouts, 376 walks Lineups Cubs Jerry the Lesser, cf Todd Walker, 2b The MVP, 1b E-ramis, 3b Michael Barrett, c Jeromy Burnitz, rf Ron Ce, ss Matt...

Daily Dose: A shoulder to cry on

The strange thing is that apparently some Cubs analysts and (lots of) fans haven’t actually watched the team play in 2004 or 2005, because the hysterical reaction to another Kerry Wood injury just seems out of place. It sucks that he’s hurt again, and for...