Daily Dose: What did the five fingers say to the face?

There are some things that you don’t even try to explain. Your head will explode if you think about it hard enough, so instead you just accept it and move on. How can a team that as recently as eleven days ago was polishing off the second of nearly impossible...

Daily Dose: This guy is good

Seven days ago the Cubs’ prospects for the season were about as promising as the NBC Fall schedule. Then, Mark Prior caught a line drive with his elbow and things looked even worse. But the Cubs won that day, and the next, and the next and the next and you get...

The Desipio Interview: Len Kasper

Over the years, Desipio has had the pleasure of interviewing a number of prominent movers and shakers in sports. Karry Ling scored the first ever interview with Steve Bartman and it was so fresh, Karry didn’t even know what his name was, he just called him...

Daily Dose: Stool sample

You know that your world has been unmistakenly changed when the Cubs need a big hit and you think to yourself, “Damn, I wish Neifi Perez was up.” Granted, you wish for Derrek Lee first, but then…it’s Neifi? Last night, Neifi launched a three...

Daily Dose: I got it! You take it!

Only the Cubs could cost a pitcher a no hitter this way. Their best defensive catcher not only misses a chest high fastball but as he chases it down to the backstop he slips and falls down? Then three batters later a little pop up falls between the shortstop (who...

Pine Tar Rag: The myth of Scott Podsednik

Whenever you hear dopey TV talking heads and supposed baseball experts talk about White Sox leftfielder Scott Podsednik, they talk about the fact that he has more stolen bases than many entire Major League Baseball teams. (Currently, he has more than: 15...