Free the Daily Herald two

Apr 9, 2009 | Andy, Featured

It’s not exactly news to say that newspapers are in trouble.  Within a 10 day span last month, three papers that had each been in business for more than 130 years all went belly up.  Papers are trying to cut costs as much as possible.  Some are doing it more...

2009 Cubs Preview

Apr 5, 2009 | Andy, Featured

Last summer we watched what we figured was the best Cubs team of our lifetimes.  They could pitch, they could hit and they could actually field the baseball (well, not Theriot, but…).  They won 97 games.  They blew away the NL Central (which, everyone says is...

This just seems like a bad idea

Apr 3, 2009 | Andy

If not for an entry on the messageboard posted by Dave B. I would have completely missed this obviously heralded announcement that Mike North is building a sports “radio” station on the Interwebs.  I’m sure North has been promoting it on the TV show...

Holy crap? A real QB?

Apr 2, 2009 | Andy

Wait.  What did you just say? Who traded two number ones and their mediocre QB for Jay Cutler? No, that’s funny, I thought you said the Bears did. Huh?  No, that can’t be right.  The Bears haven’t had a real quarterback for 20 years.  And even he...

2009 MLB Preview – National League

Mar 31, 2009 | Andy

On Sunday night we posted the American League preview and unveiled our new Barely Adequate Knowledge Optimizer formula to show you where each team would finish. The Cubs, so impressed by the formula, decided to dump their own Bako a day later. The longest spring...

Gabor update: Time to call Bekins

Mar 30, 2009 | Andy

According to my good friend Bruce Miles it appears as though there will be no redux of the Gabor Bako era for the Cubs. The Cubs decided they were happy with the old bums they already had and didn’t need two new ones, so Bako and Mike Stanton were both sent...