Sep 25, 2017 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
Baseball gave the Best Fans in Baseball™ a swift kick in the gnads when they had the Cubs open the defense of their World Series title in Busch Stadium back in April. The Cardinals responded by bringing out the giant horses to crap all over the field, and they rolled...
Sep 11, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured
It’s a funny thing about the 2003 season, because it ended so horribly, and was followed up by the even worse experience of 2004 we don’t just not look back fondly on the season, we hardly look back on it at all. But until games five, six and seven of the...
Sep 11, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured
Desipio is so old that when it started there wasn’t any social media. It’s not like Twitter made me more of a smartass, it just allowed me to inflict it on more people. Such is the price of fame that it occasionally comes back to bite people. Like when...
Aug 17, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
It seems perfectly sensible now that Theo Epstein left the Red Sox to take on the task of rebuilding the Cubs, but at the time it was a complete shock. First, that Theo would want to come, and second, that the Ricketts didn’t screw it all up. Here’s the...
Aug 17, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured, MLB
Remember in 2007 when Lou Pinella lost his shit and kicked dirt all over a third base umpire? He got suspended and the Cubs went on their first decent winning streak of the season. We did a running diary of game two of his suspension on June 4, 2007 against the...
Aug 7, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured
In our twentieth year (no shit) we’re taking looks back at great moments in Desipio history. In our first installment we relived the Cubs winning the World Series.40 But today we revisit an absolute classic. We’re going back to February 9, 2011 when...
