Daily Dose: Push has come to shove

Cardinals fans think the Cubs got what they deserved last night. They think that the call in the first game that Albert Pujols dropped Aramis Ramirez’s flyball was a bad one and that the call led to two runs for the Cubs that they shouldn’t have had. They...

“Get out the tape measure!”

It was a game that you couldn’t lose. You can’t spend five hours and 15 innings at the ballpark and not come out with a win. With these words, Pat Hughes let Cubdom know that Sammy Sosa had put an end to a very tense afternoon…”Sammy drives...

Daily Dose: Worth the wait

We don’t call him The Franchise for nothing, folks. After pretending it was raining for four hours so they could squeeze in the end of the Jerry Lewis Telethon, WGN finally relented and let the Cubs and Cardinals start the first game of this huge five-game...

An insult to my genius

Labor Day weekend is always a good time. Cookouts, football, baseball, e coli bacteria, shirtless neighbors, and enough sports on TV to make you literally fill your lap with drool just thinking about it. We’re not even halfway through this weekend and I already...

Daily Dose: Announce your presence with authority

It wasn’t just another sweaty night in Missouri last night. Try as they might to downplay the importance of striking the first blow in this ten day bonanza of games against the arch rival (or is that Arch rival?) Cardinals, the Cubs needed to come out and throw...