An open letter to Tom Ricketts (and family)

Mar 22, 2009 | Andy, Featured

Dear Tom Ricketts (and your dad and your sister and whoever else is going to own the Cubs in a month or so), I see from credible reports (wait, Carrie wrote that?  Oops.) that you and the Tribune Company are getting close to completing the first part of the sale of...

Podcast: Somewhere in there is an NBA preview

Oct 27, 2008 | Featured, Podcast

This week’s edition of the podcast includes special guest, Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Kelly Dwyer.  Kelly and the guys were supposed to do an NBA season preview.  Instead it’s basically 86 minutes of stories about Stacy King, Herm Winningham, Bob...

An open letter to TBS Sports

Oct 14, 2008 | Andy, Featured

Dear TBS Sports, Why do you hate sports so much?  What did it ever do to you?  Did the Rafael Ramirez/Bruce Benedict Braves teams of the ’80s sour you so much on sports that you have to try to torture innocent baseball fans all over America? Because, to put it...

Cubs Report: Losing is not an option

Aug 12, 2008 | Featured

One hundred and twenty games into the season, the Chicago Cubs are in first place in the National League Central, have a three and a half game lead in that division, would be up seven games in the Wild Card race if they needed that pathetic crutch, and in fact, have...

ESPN The Magazine: More shirtless dudes

Jul 17, 2008 | Featured

Sometimes, you just have to love the way timing works. On Tuesday, I finally got around to writing my e-mail to ESPN about getting them to stop sending me their wretched magazine. In the e-mail, I noted how, among lots of annoyances, one thing that really confused me...

An open letter to ESPN The Magazine

Jul 15, 2008 | Featured

This is the actual e-mail that I sent to ESPN The Magazine in regards to my subscription to their publication. Fr: andy@desipio.com To: ms_support@espn.go.com Re: My ESPN The Magazine Subscription Dear ESPN The Magazine Overlord, I am currently a subscriber to your...