103 things

Mar 29, 2011 | Cubs, Featured

Opening day for the Cubs is April 1 this year, which really seems appropriate.  Regardless of when Opening Day is, it always makes you think.  How many things does it make you think?  Well, that’s a ridiculous question.  But just off the top of my head (and...

WGN’s good at promos

Mar 27, 2011 | Cubs, Featured

WGN gives good promo and they did a nice job this year with some “testimonial” ads. Here’s a preview of them, and one of these guys is going to change his mind before his real promo airs. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1mKSKgqfs]...

Cubs could use a little trim

Mar 22, 2011 | Cubs, Featured

Opening day is next Friday (April Fool’s Day, appropriately) and the Cubs are getting to the serious business of figuring out what 25 guys will be on that roster. Granted, the roster that starts the season normally looks nothing like the one that ends it, but...

The most important NCAA pairings

Mar 21, 2011 | Featured

You now have 51 weeks to forget what channel truTV is on your satellite or cable system.  If you went to college in 1994-1995 you remember truTV as all OJ Trial, all the time.  And in those 16 years since, you hadn’t given it a second thought.  Until last...

Lousy teams just wanna have fun?

Mar 17, 2011 | Featured, Media Hacks

In the past 12 days I’ve been in eight different states.  I finally get home, settle in to see what I’ve been missing and sure enough, I’m greeted by more incomprehensible nonsense from Chicago Tribune national baseball dipshit…I mean expert,...

Leading the league in meetings

Mar 3, 2011 | Cubs, Featured

After Carlos Silva endeared himself to his teammates by starting a slap fight in the dugout yesterday, the Cubs had a team meeting this morning led by our most beloved cue ball, Mike Quade. Nobody’s quite sure what Quade told the guys, but I’m sure it...