Aug 11, 2003 | Andy
I’d like to think I’m an optimist, but when it comes to the Cubs I know I’m anything but. However, I’m just stupid enough to think that what we’re seeing isn’t a one-year run at the playoffs like we saw in 1995 and 1998 and 2001,...
Aug 11, 2003 | Andy
In retrospect, it won’t seem like a big deal. Given the 20/20 hindsight of perspective, it will be just another visit to the mound by a major league manager. Only for a moment yesterday, it said everything you need to know about two guys. Mark Prior had...
Aug 8, 2003 | Andy
I get e-mails once and a while (not the Jim Tocco kind, the good kind) from some of you who can’t figure out why so much of the Dose revolves around the Cubs. Let’s see, the longest suffering franchise in professional sports is making actual, tangible...
Aug 7, 2003 | Andy
Longtime friend of Desipio, TJ Brown sent me this link to a Chicago Reader story about the tensions between Sun-Times columnists Jay Mariotti and Rick Telander. The article leaves out Mariotti’s doughnut fetish and Telander’s addiction to one sentence...
Aug 7, 2003 | Andy
I love e-mail. Every message could be anything. A job offer. Your girlfriend sending you naked pictures of herself. Your ex-girlfriend sending you naked photos of yourself. But mostly I get two things. A) Spam and lots of it, and B) funny messages from intrepid...
Aug 7, 2003 | Andy
In 1998 Edward Burns made the third of his so-called Long Island trilogy. Following up on the very funny The Brothers McMullen, and the pretty good She’s The One, he made the movie No Looking Back. It starred him, Lauren Holly, Jon Bon Jovi (seriously), Gwyneth...
