Jan 23, 2018 | Bulls, Featured, NBA
Just before opening night I said, out loud, to no one in particular, “I’m not even going to watch a single Bulls game this year.” They were going to be so bad, and all I’d read and heard was that the haul they got for Jimmy Butler was so...
Jan 22, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
It’s an odd time for Chicago sports to say the least. The Bears are rebuilding (again) with a quarterback who presumably likes his queso with actual cheese and plans to vaccinate his unborn kids. Oh, and their coach is actually younger than Tom Brady. The...
Jan 20, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
Every year at the Cubs Convention somebody asks Tom Ricketts a question about Sammy Sosa and every year (at least since 2010) Tom bungles the answer. It should not be a hard question to field, especially since he knows it’s coming. What he should do is...
Jan 20, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks
It’s my own fault, I know that. Nobody forced me to do it, I brought it on myself. For some reason, I keep listening to the Bill Simmons podcasts when he has Mike Francesa on to talk NFL playoffs and make their laughably bad picks. If you haven’t...
Jan 19, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
As part of our ongoing (never ending, really) celebration of Desipio’s 20th anniversary, I’m still digging up golden oldies. Given the mild backlash my Monday Cub O’ Coffee column on The Athletic got because I was “mean to Tom Ricketts and...
Jan 4, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
It’s still our 20th anniversary. Today we look back just a couple of years to the time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened yet. Originally posted, January 14, 2016 Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s...
