WGN America might never come back to DirecTV

WGN America might never come back to DirecTV

Yesterday, on April Fools’ Day, no less, DirecTV subscribers all over the country woke up to a message on their TV that DirecTV and Tribune Company had not come to a new carriage agreement and as a result 23 Tribune owned local affiliates, and WGN America are no...
Meet the Cubs Pitchers!

Meet the Cubs Pitchers!

Yesterday we took a tour of the Cubs position players as we head into the 2012 season.  It wasn’t a pretty sight.  It was like coming up on a motorcycle accident and realizing that the driver wasn’t wearing a helmet or pants. Today, we hold our nose and...
The Genius goes to work

The Genius goes to work

Major League Baseball has officially hired recently retired Tony LaRussa as a “special advisor.”  LaRussa will be paid $2.5 million to handle “special projects” and will not have to hang out in the New York MLB offices. Pretty amazing that the...
Meet the Cubs!

Meet the Cubs!

Cubs functionally illiterate manager Dale Sveum has narrowed his 25 man roster down to 28 or so (nobody’s sure how high Dale can count), and it’s a sight to behold.  An outfield of four washed up guys and the plodding Joe Mather, an infield that’s...

Breaking: Starlin Castro to host Baseball Bunch

I love the fact that Starlin is doing interviews in English now.  I can’t imagine trying to do that in a foreign language.  But this segment with Harold Reynolds, between Starlin’s broken English and the fact that his “before” and...

I hope Ryan Dempster is killed by a meteor

Seriously, what is wrong with this asshole? Won’t anyone tell him that he’s not funny, that his Harry Caray impression isn’t actually of Harry, but Will Ferrell doing Harry…poorly? On the surface, Ryan Dempster should be likable.  He seems...