Why people are still booing Dusty

He hasn’t managed the Cubs since October 1, 2006, and since he left the Cubs have been one of the best teams in all of baseball.  So why do Cubs fans still insist on booing Dusty Baker whenever he pokes his head out of the visitor’s dugout at Wrigley...

This never gets old

Thanks to copious amounts of rainfall yesterday we didn’t get to enjoy much of the verbal stylings of Joe Morgan and Steve Phillips on Sunday Night Baseball, though the guys did do a cut-in during Baseball Tonight.  It was as if Steve felt guilty over depriving...

Cubs Live — Cardinals at Cubs, 7 p.m.

Another Sunday night, another Cubs game.  Tonight, we’re the special guests of Baseball Prospectus’ Baseball Daily Digest’s live blog of Sunday Night Baseball.  It’s us, them and some unsuspecting Cardinals’ fans from The Cardinal...

The bullpen, she’s no good

As one reader mentioned this morning, while the Wittenmyer’s of the world try create their own controversy, there is something that is actually glaringly wrong with the 2009 Cubs. The bullpen, she’s no good. Mainly, because the guys down there aren’t...

Does Gordon’s douchebaggery know no limits?

I wasn’t lying when I said that I don’t even bother to read the Sun-Times for any Cubs news these days.  But when an intrepid reader e-mailed me this morning to tell me what Gordon Wittenmyer wrote today, I just had to look. Didn’t I? So yes, I...

ESPN’s Sunday Night Babble…er, Baseball

The real opening day is Monday (at Wrigley, during the day, etc.) and we’ll have a GameCast, so stop on by at 1:20 for the first pitch (or whenever it stops raining), but the Cubs were in action on Sunday night, on ESPN, with our favorite announcers Jon Miller,...