Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997

Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997

The current edition of the Cubs is awful.  They’ve won six of their first 18, which is awful.  But the Cubs know awful better than anybody else. And so, here’s the start of a short series titled: Terrible Cubs of a Recent Vintage, a (fake) oral history of...
Somebody’s red ass is showing

Somebody’s red ass is showing

Our good friend Paul Sullivan posted a shot of a horde of seagulls hanging out in the left field bleachers yesterday late in the Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley. The photo consisted of several seagulls, two drunk guys in Cubs jerseys and four people huddled up in the...
You do understand what rebuilding means, right?

You do understand what rebuilding means, right?

Cubs fans take a lot of shit, and most of it is undeserved. I said “most” of it is undeserved.  If the way many Cubs fans (not us, of course…we’re the brightest of a largely dull bunch) are reacting to the realities of watching a rebuilding...
Now we’re lousy with Cubs ads

Now we’re lousy with Cubs ads

As opening day got closer we were suddenly inundated with ads featuring the Cubs.  Nothing moves product quite like a team that will be lucky to avoid losing 90+ games again. It started with this ad from MLB The Show 12 featuring what it will look like (assuming we...
Opening day without the old man

Opening day without the old man

My  nephew, my brother and I were looking for a pin for dad to wear on the lapel of his suit.  There were plenty to pick from, he had Cubs pins and lots of Notre Dame pins.  He had some on his Cubs hat, some on his Notre Dame hat and a bunch more in a drawer that...