Jul 20, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
A year after the Cubs’ inexplicable playoff run and Sammy Sosa 66 homer season, the Cubs were without Kerry Wood (because of Tommy John Disease), but decided the keys to returning to the playoffs were bringing back 40-year old Gary Gaetti and signing Benito...
Jul 16, 2021 | Andy, Cubs, Featured, MLB
Some of you younger fans might not know that for much of our existence of Cubs’ fandom we’ve had an annual July rite that we gleefully got to eschew from 2015 until this year. The annual picking of the spoiler team we had to root for through the rest of...
Jul 15, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
It’s time for a Cubs podcast and Kyle joins Andy with Sam out on assignment, and the guys have breaking news to discuss with Joc Pederson traded to the Barves for an enormous prospect (literally.) They play a fun game of “Is he gonna be traded,” they...
Jul 9, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The Dusty era had ended, Sam Zell was in town screwing up the Tribune and trying to pump up the value of the Cubs so he could sell them to some unsuspecting dopes in Omaha, Alfonso Soriano, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Cliff Lee were new to...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Former Daily Herald Cubs’ reporter Bruce Miles is back to discuss his new blog at brucemiles.net, his new book, “The Phenom” and to talk a lot about the Cubs current and past. Has the Cubs’ six-game losing streak given the team permission to...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
All Cubs seasons are fun to re-live (well, most of them) but some are more fun than others and this time the wheel of crap has gifted us the incredible, ridiculous, insane 1998 Cubs. Sammy Sosa homered every day, Kerry Wood struck out everybody, Terry Mulholland...
