Jun 15, 2019 | Featured, Media Hacks
In a shocking turn of events, the state of Illinois passed a budget this year, on time (well, a couple days late) and it’s balanced (with some fancy math, sure.) How did they accomplish such a feat and find money to fix our crumbling roads and sagging bridges,...
Jun 14, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
My rundown of the thankless exercise the Chicago Bears paid Don Pierson and Dan Pompei to do, the ranking of 100 greatest Bears continues. If you missed 100-76, it’s here. 1 75. Akiem Hicks, DT, 2016 – present Akiem is pretty awesome, and the Bears got him...
Jun 12, 2019 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Your favorite podcast gets even better (yes, we mean this one) with the new addition of Sam Fels, and the guys waste no time getting into the most pressing issues of the day, including their disdain for whatever the bastardized version of baseball is that gets played...
Jun 12, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
If you haven’t heard, this is the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Bears, or Decatur Staleys, or whatever they’ve ever been. They were “born” in 1919 when Vag McCaskey was a plucky little nine year old named Ginny Halas.3 To celebrate the...
Jun 10, 2019 | Cubs, Featured, Mailbag, MLB
Sometimes, you get a Tweet that demands more than a 280 character response. When the subject is worst closers in Cubs history, how can you avoid it? So, we open up the old Tweetbag for this from @FreedmanMatthew: I see that Gregg is actually pretty similar to Antonio...
Jun 4, 2019 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
It’s just Mike and Andy this week, and they rename and then review a book they haven’t read, run through the long and undistinguished history of recent Cubs pitcher draft picks, try to figure out if Carlos Gonzalez is the next Jim Edmonds (in a good way),...
