Jul 29, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories
Over the weekend, Al at bleedcubbieblue.com really stepped up his game and wrote about 10,000 words on the different start times of Cubs games at Wrigley Field over the years. Â Now, everyone knows that Al and I are regular chums and I only pretend to give him a hard...
Jul 26, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
Has it really been seven years? Â We were so young then, weren’t we? Â On that November Sunday when the Cubs threw silly money at the flawed, but best free agent on the market and brought Alfonso Soriano to town. Â The contract seemed way too long. Â Eight years...
Jul 25, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
So the Matt Garza era is over in Chicago. Â The man good enough to be traded for Sam Fuld, has been shipped off to Arlington, Texas where he’ll join a really talented team with a batshit crazy (and likely coked up) manager. Â Garza will fit right in. Â Though at...
Jun 17, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks
This morning I got wind of a new Al Yellon article so poorly thought out, so unreasonably daffy and so incompetent that I cursed the Twitter Gods for suspending my account because I wanted to share some good old Steve Stone motherboy flesh with the world. It was going...
Jun 14, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks
If you’re wondering why the visibility of @desipiodotcom on Twitter is so poor right now, all you kids watching from home, it’s Steve Stone’s fault. Sort of. Yesterday Twitter got flooded with more annoying spam tweets than usual. Â And I got one...
Jun 6, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
The night the Cubs have been waiting for, since this time last year is here. Â It’s the first day (night, actually) of the 2013 Major League Baseball Rule 4 Draft. Â The Cubs have the second pick in the draft thanks to being the second worst team in baseball...
