Feb 20, 2007 | Andy
On the day when Jim Hendry and Carlos Zambrano’s agents made an arbitrator sit alone in a Phoenix hotel conference room while they worked out a $12 million deal for Carlos, Cubs fans all over were given a gift that no doubt will keep on giving. As intrepid...
Feb 16, 2007 | Andy
$300 million doesn’t buy what it used to (it used to buy 600 million packs of bubblegum cards and now it buys about 147 of them), and so the newer, more expensive Cubs arrive in camp much better than when last we saw them, but are they good enough? That’s...
Feb 13, 2007 | Andy
You’re really not a big time athlete until you learn to refer to yourself in the third person. Rickey Henderson perfected the art, and took it to heights no one ever expected. Rickey is infamous for referring to himself only as Rickey. Not just after...
Feb 6, 2007 | Andy
Can it? Losing the Super Bowl, especially that soggy mess we saw Sunday has a way of ruining what, by virtue of winning enough to go to game itself, was a great season. The 2006 Bears were fun to watch, fun to root for and given the sad sack, mediocre nature of most...
Feb 1, 2007 | Andy
You’d think they’d learn. The national media, so quick to dismiss the Bears against the mighty New Orleans Saints all had egg on their face (probably from a free brunch buffet) after they all picked the wrong team to win the NFC. But, they’re at it...
Jan 30, 2007 | Andy
Dear Jeff Joniak, Please stop it. All of it. You know what you’re doing. What, you don’t? Come on, you can’t be that clueless. Nobody is that clueless. Well, one guy was, but he finally left after like seven years of torturing us with overaffected...
