Jan 4, 2005 | Andy
Ed Meese once said of pornography, “I know it when I see it.” I don’t doubt that. And when it comes to Hall of Fame baseball players, I feel the same way. Numbers never told the whole story of Ryne Sandberg. They told a lot. When he retired he had...
Jan 3, 2005 | Andy
Is it just my imagination or did the Bears actually get worse as the season went along? You get a new coach and a few new players and you expect that it’ll take a while to come together. But just the opposite happened. It took a while for the wheels to fall off....
Dec 23, 2004 | Andy
As the 2004 season gets smaller and smaller in our rearview mirror, one thing becomes painfully obvious. The Cubs were full of dopes last year. Some were obvious. We knew Chip Caray was a dope from the moment he opened his yapper. We knew Wendell Kim was a dope from...
Dec 21, 2004 | Andy
Blame it on the circus, I guess. The Bulls’ seven game west coast road trip in November hid from us what should have been obvious. They’re actually kind of good. They got off to a hideous 0-9 start thanks in part to an opening night overtime loss to the...
Dec 20, 2004 | Andy
Rumors abound that the Cubs will complete a trade today for Twins leftfielder Jacque Jones. Who they will trade for him isn’t really known, because really, it’s only fun to make up half a trade rumor, the other half is where all the work is. It’s...
Dec 15, 2004 | Andy
As far as knowledgable baseball sources go, Chris DeLuca fits right in somewhere between a seven-year-old girl who wonders how many “points” the Cubs have and a syphillitic elephant, so when even he figures out that Sammy Sosa’s days are literally...
