Steve Stone got me suspended by Twitter

Steve Stone got me suspended by Twitter

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.  And I got one...
2013 MLB Draft Preview

2013 MLB Draft Preview

The night the Cubs have been waiting for, since this time last year is here.  It’s the first day (night, actually) of the 2013 Major League Baseball Rule 4 Draft.  The Cubs have the second pick in the draft thanks to being the second worst team in baseball...
Maybe Pythagoras is just full of shit

Maybe Pythagoras is just full of shit

Dale Sveum is not a mathematician.  In fact, he doesn’t seem to be much of a thinker.  So it’s unlikely that he understands that his fourth place Cubs really shouldn’t be bad.  They ought to be mediocre. Woo!  Cubs fever.  Catch it.  And die....
Can’t spell Most Valuable without Valbue(n)a

Can’t spell Most Valuable without Valbue(n)a

The Internet long ago identified me as the biggest Luis Valbuena jock sniffer on the planet, and to that, I can only say, “So?” Long, long ago, I founded the Hank White Fan Club and we, to this day, share glorious tales of Henry Blanco’s long (16...
Too quick to apologize

Too quick to apologize

Yesterday was quite a day for the guy at Bleacher Nation, Brett Taylor.  It started innocently enough: a recap of the exploits of the Cubs minor leaguers–written by a guy named Luke they are infinitely better than the ones at Al Yellon’s House of...

So are the Cubs broke, or cheap, or both

From today’s Sun Times it’s pretty apparent that Gordon Wittenmyer isn’t going to stop writing about how the Cubs: a) have no money b) have huge, crippling, staggering, suffocating debt c) can’t pay free agents d) refuse to pay free agents e)...