Coghlan’s a good man, and thorough

Jul 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Circuitous flyball route taker and world champion strikeout pouter Chris Coghlan’s production should actually continue to go up now that (for a brief moment, at least) Chris Denforia and Jorge Soler are actually healthy at the same time.  Coghlan and Denorfia...

Goddamnit, they are fun to watch

Jun 25, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Someday, you’ll be old like me, and things that you were sure would always be true will change and you won’t believe them.  Given that I like drinking beer and eating food that I know is horrible for me, I figure I’m halfway to dead. I’ve...

Ten reasons why David Ross is the Cubs backup catcher

Jun 24, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

I may have written this for the Ivy Drip, and instead inspired Sam’s cartoon.  So, if that’s the case, this is recycled content. What are you complaining about?  Don’t cost nuthin’. When fans aren’t complaining about whatever Starlin...

Automatically sending home a runner is dumb

Jun 10, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

I love Len Kasper more than the average man.  I think we’re lucky to have such a good, entertaining, normal, analytical TV play by play guy working Cubs games.  After seven seasons of Chip Caray, I never take Len for granted. But that doesn’t mean I...

How do you measure yourself against other teams? By height.

May 27, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

The Cubs are now in the roughest patch of schedule they’ve had yet this season.  They’ve split the first two games at home with the surging Washington Nationals, 2then three with the defending American League champion Royals3.  Then they’ll be off...

Something out of left field

May 19, 2015 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks

The 2015 edition of the Chicago Cubs cares not for your timetable.  This is supposed to be the year they sniff around .500 get us all excited and then next year they contend for a bona fide playoff spot.  They seem hell bent on pushing things up. Well, parts of the...