Jun 11, 2008 | Andy
I don’t usually do requests. But over on the message board Slaky found a three day old steamer that Gordon Wittenmyer wrote in the Sun Times. I saw it on Friday and ignored it. I didn’t even click on it because from the headline alone I could tell it was...
Jun 10, 2008 | Andy
On Thursday, the Cubs and Braves are going to play the first “throwback” game in Wrigley Field history. The Cubs have played hundreds of “setback” games, but never a throwback one. The difference is subtle. in a throwback game, teams wear...
Jun 9, 2008 | Andy
Now that Jim Edmonds is a productive, happy, and popular member of the Chicago Cubs, it’s time we all pretend that we were never mean to him, questioned his sexuality, accused him of bestiality or sets bags of flaming feces on the stoop in front of his favorite...
Jun 2, 2008 | Andy
Before we get to the actual Cubs Report, I have a complaint about Len Kasper that I wasn’t going to publicly acknowledge, but I feel I have to. Len was guilty yesterday of using a disgusting, deplorable, insensitive and altogether offensive ethnic slang term,...
May 27, 2008 | Andy
In Little League the traditional spot on the field to “hide” your worst defender is right field. That’s where you put the kid with the asthma inhaler and the glasses that are so thick that if they fell off his head and came to rest at just the right...
May 23, 2008 | Andy
In today’s Daily Herald, Bruce Miles gives Jim Hendry some credit for finally assembling a team that knows how to get on base. Bruce credits two moves in particular. Hiring Lou Piniella, a manager who has always emphasized the need to get your fanny on the...
