What decade is this? The Cubs re-sign Matt Murton

Feb 5, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

In late July of 2004 the Red Sox still-young General Manager Theodore Epstein traded an iconic Boston superstar to the Chicago Cubs.  Boston was stunned.  People wept.  A pall fell over the city. Oh, in the same trade, Theo also got rid of Nomar Garciaparra. Matt...

Let’s hold off on trading Jorge, eh?

Jan 28, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

Current titleholder of “Worst Twitterer in the Universe” Bruce Levine wrote a surprisingly coherent piece for The Score where he touted the Cubs as the “most likely landing place” for Dexter Fowler. We all liked Dexter.  He did a nice job,...

Designate this

Jan 22, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

The baseball owners are going meet this weekend at Del Boca Vista to discuss how filthy rich they all are, and for the Wilpons to screen the new “Madoff” mini-series. Among the other things they’re going to discuss1 is bringing the designated hitter...

An Oral History of the 2016 Cubs Convention

Jan 14, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Oral Histories

Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s especially true here.  We’ve gotten so good at this, that we’re doing an oral history of the 2016 Cubs Convention before it even happens. CRANE KENNEY, President of the Shit That Doesn’t...

Here’s to 2016 – The year we’ve all been waiting for

Dec 30, 2015 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

If there’s one thing that all these years of being a Cubs fan have taught us, it’s that when you think the team is going to suck you have to convince yourself that somehow they can actually contend, and when you think the team is going to be good, you have...

We’re going to need to think of reasons to like John Lackey

Dec 28, 2015 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

Now somewhat lost amid the hubub over Jason Heyward telling the Cardinals to genuflect and cram “Baseball Heaven” to their nether regions and Ben Zobrist telling the Mets to spend their ill-gotten Ponzi fortune on someone else, the Cubs also signed John...