Pictures and catchers report

Pictures and catchers report

The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over.  To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof.  Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not...
Not every video montage is inspiring

Not every video montage is inspiring

Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris.  It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a...
Keeping the dream alive

Keeping the dream alive

The 2012 Cubs are unique, not in that they’re going to be bad, but because they’re actually designed to be that way.  Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are trying to turn the whole damned franchise around and it’s going to take some time.  So this...
Dempster ponders his future

Dempster ponders his future

Our good friend at Big League Stew, Kevin Kaduk, thinks it’s funny that I loathe Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster so much.  And I can see why.  Dempster’s been a Cub since 2004 and there have been much bigger louts and disappointments to root against in that...
There are no AAAA players

There are no AAAA players

The Cubs equipment truck is on its way to Mesa, which can mean only one thing…hijack that puppy and get all the clean jock straps you can stuff in your shorts!  No, wait, it means Spring Training is on the way.  You know what else says that?  A fucking...
An open letter that should have stayed shut

An open letter that should have stayed shut

Some days it doesn’t pay to be busy.  I was tied up all day, and so this morning, when I read Al Yellon’s open letter to Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer about re-signing Kerry Wood, I tried the old, “clear my calendar, THIS is all I’m doing...