Aug 22, 2008 | Andy
I understand that the Chicago Sun-Times is going the way of the Chicago Daily News and will soon be toes up and out of business, but are they so resigned to that fate that they can’t employ someone with any degree of competence to cover the Cubs in what just...
Aug 20, 2008 | Andy
Dusty Baker is doing such a fine job as the manager of the Cincinnati Reds that his bosses (general manager Walt Jocketty and club president Bob Castellini) felt the need to publish a public apology to the fans for the performance of the dead-ass last Cincinnati Reds....
Aug 19, 2008 | Andy
It’s my own fault. From time to time I feel a pathological need to go over to Bleed Cubbie Blue and read what the nitwits are up to. I should know better by now. Today, if you go there, you are greeted by a way-too-large, extreme close up of a very sleepy, or...
Aug 18, 2008 | Andy
It never did make any sense. How could the beast of the National League struggle so much on the road? If they got you anywhere near their place, they smacked you, stunned you and dragged you back into their cave and had their way with you. But if they ventured out...
Aug 16, 2008 | Andy
He hadn’t had a hit in three weeks. He’d only come through with hits four times in 40 pinch hit at bats. But for some reason, when Daryle Ward, yes, the Fat Kangaroo himself, dug in with one out in the ninth inning on Friday night in Florida, you just had...
Aug 5, 2008 | Andy
Remember last May when Carlos Zambrano beat the crap out of Michael Barrett in the Cubs’ dugout and two days later the Cubs started a hot streak that led them to the NL Central title? Well, the Brewers tried to re-enact that late last season when Manager Ned...
