Rozner’s drunk, isn’t he?

Over the weekend, Chicago Tribune baseball “expert” Maude wrote that he thought the Cubs had a realistic chance at being the team the San Diego Padres trade Jake Peavy to.  Maude, however, opined that the deal would also include a swap of first basemen,...

Cubs offseason target? A big fish?

Really, my main goal in life is to become one of those quasi-media people who people near the Cubs organization float rumors to.  I may have actually met that goal! Somebody who could concievably know e-mailed me to say that when the Cubs gathered in Arizona...

Even more indignity?

The best thing about the Chicago media is how predictably lame they are. We all knew last night, after seeing the previously woeful Tampa Bay Rays win the American League pennant, that our friends at the newspapers would spin it as more indignity for the Cubs. The...

Oh, those poor Rays fans

When Tampa Bay Rays fans greet each other, eventually they ask, “How many weeks have you been a fan?”  Wait, no, I’m sure there are some actual long-suffering Rays fans, fans who paid money to watch Fred McGriff do whatever crap Fred McGriff did, or...

An open letter to TBS Sports

Dear TBS Sports, Why do you hate sports so much?  What did it ever do to you?  Did the Rafael Ramirez/Bruce Benedict Braves teams of the ’80s sour you so much on sports that you have to try to torture innocent baseball fans all over America? Because, to put it...

Now what do they do?

As a Cubs’ fan…no, that’s too narrow…as a Chicago sports fan, you learn never to expect anything.  So even thought the Cubs won 97 games and were playing an 84 win team in the first round of the playoffs, you’d have been daft to expect...