Traditions

Mar 26, 2009 | Andy

Edgy Chicago ad agency Energy BBDO has come up with a series of new spots for the White Sox. You know they’re edgy because their name is “Energy!”  They had to settle on that when they found out MethAddled is the name of a St. Louis sports bar. ...

Does the car hop before every stoplight?

Mar 26, 2009 | Andy

The guys at Home Run Derby ran some photos of Alfonso Soriano’s conservative, eco-conscious, Hybrid SmartCar the other day.  It’s disguised as a big assed H2 with enough speakers in it for Curtis Pride to hear. Just take a look at this thing. Now you know...

WBC “Live” – Team Japan v. Team USA

Mar 22, 2009 | Andy

Read Saturday’s “Open Letter to Tom Ricketts” OK, this isn’t really Live since I’m not posting it until after the fact, but I sat through three hours of World Baseball Classic semifinal so you wouldn’t have to.  It’s the US...

An open letter to Tom Ricketts (and family)

Mar 22, 2009 | Andy, Featured

Dear Tom Ricketts (and your dad and your sister and whoever else is going to own the Cubs in a month or so), I see from credible reports (wait, Carrie wrote that?  Oops.) that you and the Tribune Company are getting close to completing the first part of the sale of...

Dead..or National?

Mar 12, 2009 | Andy

There are probably two things that will really point out to you just how terrible your baseball franchise is.  First, if you are the go-to team when guys want to start a franchise in their baseball video games, that’s bad.  Because most guys want to take a...

Dog days of spring

Mar 8, 2009 | Andy

I like the World Baseball Classic as much (actually probably a lot more) than the average fan.  But it still doesn’t make any sense to me that spring training has to be longer because of it.  Shouldn’t it be the same size, or even shorter given that...