The curse of numbers

The Cubs are so old they actually predate the time when every player wore a number.  No Cub wore a number on his jersey until 1932, nearly a quarter century after the Cubs last won a World Series.  Oh great, another thing to add to the list of things invented after...

Meet the Cubs

Fresh off a 97 win regular season and a perfectly awful postseason, the Cubs are back in Mesa and getting ready for the longest Spring Training in memory.  Somehow, adding the World Baseball Classic to the mix has resulted in more spring training games and an extra...

An open roster spot for…

It’s Groundhog Day, and fittingly the Cubs are clearing space on their roster, and it might just mean we get to relive one of the most disappointing chapters of a recent Cubs history so chock full of them that it boggles the mind. On Monday the Cubs traded...

Cubs have rickets

This kind of thing only happens to the Cubs, right?  They finally find a buyer for the team, and the guy has rickets?  Where is this guy from, Galapagos?  Nobody gave him a glass of milk or a citrus fruit when he was a kid?  He’s going to be the most bow...

How much does batshit crazy cost?

It’s always something with the Cubs.  It took them thirty years to find a third baseman to replace Ron Santo.  It’s been longer than that now since Billy Williams left left field and they still haven’t found anybody to stand out there for more than...

Jay Mariotti does not understand the Interwebs

According to Deadspin, former Sun Times columnist and all around douchebag Jay Mariotti has a new job. Remember that Jay quit the Sun Times last summer because he finally figured out that Interwebs were the wave of the future (present) and he didn’t think the...