You’ve got to focus (because the TV screen is tiny)

Eleven days. Nine games. There’s not enough Milk of Magnesia in the world. But we’ve made it this far, what’s an aneurysm or two among friends? You know it’s been a wild and rocky ride when the FANS were looking forward to a much-deserved day...

Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 7:05 pm

Pitching matchup Reds: Somebody Shearn 3-0, 4.15 ERA Cubs: The Bull Moose 15-7, 3.82 ERA Lineups Reds On the Hopper, cf Jeff Keppinger, ss Griffey the Younger, rf Brandon Phillips, 2b VORP Donkey, 1b Eddie Encarnacion, 3b Joey Votto, 1b Dave Ross, c Tom Shearn, p Cubs...

Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 7:05 pm

Pitching matchup: Lemon Harang 15-4, 3.65 ERA Carlos Zambrano  16-12, 4.14 ERA Lineups Reds On the Hopper, cf Jeff Keppinger, ss Griffey the Younger, rf Brandon Phillips, 2b VORP Donkey, lf Eddie Encarnacion, 3b Joe E. Votto, 1b Tubby Valentin, c Lemon Harang, p...

Cubs Live! — Reds at Cubs, 7:05 pm

Pitching matchup: Reds: Fabio Arroyo 9-14, 4.31 ERA Cubs: Dick Mountain 9-8, 3.81 ERA Lineups Reds Norris “Smells like I’m sitting on the” Hopper, cf Jeff Keppinger, ss Griffey the Younger, rf Brandon Phillips, 2b VORP, lf Eddie Encarnacion, 3b...

Two in hand beats what at Busch?

I’m not going to pretend I was ever any good at math.   But at an early age I learned how to calculate a baseball team’s magic number (sometime around September 1984) and in the year’s since it’s been like second nature to pick the day the...

Fine, nice, whatever, you evil bastards

Just when you think it’s safe to abandon all hope, let the bitterness crust up on you like Carol Marin’s pancake makeup and pack it in for the winter, the Cubs do this to us. We know better.  We’ve seen this movie.  It ends pretty well.  If...