Aug 6, 2003 | Andy
Bet you didn’t think I could use butt and foot in the same headline. Well, you’d be wrong. Hey, I didn’t say it was a good one… Because we’re Cubs fans, we don’t think of things like this. But take a step back away from our...
Aug 5, 2003 | Andy
Honestly, we’re all a little confused here. Not just because Karry is holed up on the roof of the Desipio Tower lobbing empty bottles of Cold Duck at us. It’s August and both Chicago baseball teams are within spitting distance of a playoff spot. Normally,...
Aug 4, 2003 | Andy
You know your team is hanging on by its fingernails when: 1) Every time you get a one run lead you do a rain dance. 2) Mark Grudzielanek is lost for four weeks and you weep uncontrollably. 3) Lenny Harris is released and puts a curse on the team. 4) Augie Ojeda is...
Aug 1, 2003 | Andy
Somewhere on his resume, Andy MacPhail is going to have to put the following: – One-time boy genius who won World Series in 1987 and 1991 with the Twins – Instigated huge sweater-vest trend of the mid 1990s – Traded not once, but twice for middle...
Jul 31, 2003 | Andy
Before you bunch your undies and scream to the heavens that Jim Hendry could have waited a week and gotten Aaron Boone for one good minor league pitcher, consider that a) it’s not true, b) how did your undies get bunched? Yikes. Boone to the Yankees. Ventura to...
Jul 30, 2003 | Andy
It really doesn’t matter what you tell yourself. You can hide behind a blanket of skepticism and try and convince yourself that just like every other year since 1945 the Cubs aren’t going anywhere. Then you settle in and watch their fourth best starter...
