Sep 27, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
Soon enough, the panic will set in. We’re Cubs fans, and we have two default settings, anguish and doom. Occasionally we allow ourselves to get really excited about our team, but that doesn’t happen often, and it is always followed by a good, thorough soul...
Sep 14, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
You are here most likely because you, long ago, for no good reason, made a conscious decision to root for the most inept professional sports franchise in America. I made that same decision, about 35 years ago. I was just a punk kid rooting for his dad’s favorite...
Aug 19, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
At this point, it would be nice if the Cubs would just stop lying to us. It’s going to happen, we all know it’s going to happen, and it’s going to be awesome. So how about they just stop downplaying the possibility of it, and let us embrace its inevitability? No, I’m...
Aug 11, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
If you’re going to any of the games at Wrigley this weekend you really need to stop as you go into the park and buy a program. I know that you think you don’t need one now that you are actually paying attention to the games again, and because you can just look up both...
Aug 10, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
When Joe Maddon announced on July 29 that Tommy La Stella hadn’t taken the news that he was being demoted to AAA Iowa very well, I think we all empathized with him. He was being sent to Des Moines only because he still had an option left, and the guy who was going to...
