Feb 8, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
So, it’s come to this. The Brewers, a franchise that is such an afterthought that they left the American League in 1998 and nobody even noticed, are apparently tired of Cubs fans coming to games and helping them fill up their weird pole barn with the garage...
Feb 1, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
While we all sit around waiting for Yu Darvish to give the free agent stalemate a good Roto Rootering by finally picking a team, the Cubs have decided to mock us to our faces. On Thursday they announced they had re-signed former Cubs outfielder Damon...
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 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...
Nov 15, 2017 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
Today is November 9 and if you figure that most teams report to Spring Training just after Valentine’s Day, there are about 13 weeks left in the offseason. Gang, I’m worried about Phil Rogers. He’s always been the standard bearer for dumb, but...
