Top 20 Cubs foul balls of all-time

You know what says great writing? Lists! Oh, you can’t beat the tired, old, yarn where you stop trying to take random ideas and weave them cohesively into an actual story and just list the damn things. Now that…that’s writing. Sometimes, the lists...

Conventioneering

The Cubs Convention is not just about Ryan Dempster showing what it looks like when he rams a moose up his ass. No, it’s that and so much more. This year’s was no different. Every year I go to the convention with my dad and every year I come back and tell...

Time to pay up you gum-trust fund pansies

Another topic that we missed while I was sitting around doing nothing (I did finish Bioshock in a marathon two days, though…yeah never mind) was the word that new Tribune Company owner Sam Zell not only wants to sell Wrigley Field to the state, but also that it...

Gee, you’re dumb

Here’s the worst thing about taking a hiatus from writing pithy columns, there are days when you read something that somebody else wrote and you just ‘have’ to make fun of it. But you can’t, because you’re on hiatus.I don’t...

This time it will be better

Never before has TV more extensively covered sports than it does right now.  We can pretty much see any game we want and keep it forever.  One thing that hasn’t kept up is the quality of the broadcasts themselves. The picture is better and clearer, we can...

Shirtless hugs for the NL Central Champs!

We’re Cubs fans, we wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves if it was “easy.” Carlos Zambrano mowed them down in Cincinnati, an old friend did just enough in his start in Milwaukee and the all-time saves leader made it...