Feb 9, 2006 | Andy
In today’s Sun-Times, Ron Rapoport (who knows something about crotchety old men) takes us through former Cubs’ announcer (and undeserving Ford Frick Award winner) Milo Hamilton’s new book. In the excerpts of the book that the Sun-Times ran today,...
Feb 8, 2006 | Andy
The biggest shame of the 2005 Cubs season was that their removal from the pennant race in July (probably more like April) meant that Cubs fans were robbed of a chance to see the great Henry Blanco in action when the games meant the most. Last night, down South America...
Feb 5, 2006 | Andy
Every year the Super Bowl gets bigger and bigger. Along the way it becomes less football game and more mere spectacle. Super Bowl XL had all the trimmings. Dueling four hour plus pregame shows (just who’s the genius who thought Michael Irvin needed to be on free...
Feb 3, 2006 | Andy
It’s been a while, and I’m all backed up with pithy observations. Wait, backed up? Yeah, that just sounds wrong. On Saturday, I was standing in my bathroom, shaving and out of habit I reached over and turned on the radio. Much to your chagrin I...
Jan 30, 2006 | Andy
Over at Cubs.com (where the motto is “Everything’s great, no matter how much everything sucks), Carrie Muskat does what apparently every “independent” MLB.com writer has to do for his/her teams sometime this week. She puts together a quickie...
Jan 26, 2006 | Andy
Over at the big four letter Web site, Sports Guy is doing another of his “Curious Guy” bits where he prints e-mails he’s traded with “famous” people. His first few were with people of dubious fame (like overrated social commentator Chuck...
