Daily Dose: Flannel Boy is at it again

Somebody was being nice. Or mean. Around here, it’s hard to tell sometimes. But a couple of weeks ago, our perennial favorite, ESPN.com baseball hack Rob Neyer re-did his personal Web site. Don’t worry though, the image of him in flannel remains. Included...

Two things you aren’t likely to forget anytime soon

It’s been quite a couple of weeks for Desipio’s favorite ex-coaches. While Larry Eustachy was trying to pretend photos of a winter visit to a Missouri campus party didn’t exist, Mike Price was doing things to Pensacola, Florida that Goose and...

Daily Dose: Now those are the Cubs we know and love

A bullpen implosion of epic proportions. Infield play that reminds us all of the immortal Tanner-Lupus-Stein double play combo of cinema fame. The ghost (even though he’s alive) of Dandy Don Meredith even turned the lights out to remind us that indeed, the party...

Things I’m loathe to admit

It’s been a while, and I haven’t Dosed in two days, so you get this instead. I know, I know, it’s not the same. But you know what? Nothing’s the same as it ever was. That’s a lie. House of Pain may have sung it, but that doesn’t...

Thursday’s Cubs win? Monumental?

If there is such a thing as a “must-win” one month into a baseball season, Thursday’s game at San Francisco sure had the feeling of one. Never mind all the buildup with Dusty Baker going up against his old team. Of course Dusty didn’t want to...