Mar 7, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
There are two things I can’t quite understand about the Cubs bunting tournament. 1) The media’s fascination with tweeting out round by round results. Two years ago, most of these guys (and Carrie) acted like Twitter was way too complicated for them to ever...
Mar 6, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
I know that High Heat and MVP Baseball 2005 get a lot of love as the greatest video baseball games ever, and I loved them both, and RBI Baseball, of course. Â But the gold standard has to be The Show now. I’m a mostly grown man and my wife will occasionally hear...
Mar 5, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
When Dale Sveum wrote out his intersquad lineup and had Alfonso Soriano listed as his leadoff hitter, I was impressed. Â I had no idea Sveum could spell anything with more than one syllable. Â When he did it again for the Cacti League opener, I was intrigued. Â When I...
Feb 21, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over. Â To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof. Â Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not...
Feb 13, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris. Â It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a...
Feb 10, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
The 2012 Cubs are unique, not in that they’re going to be bad, but because they’re actually designed to be that way. Â Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are trying to turn the whole damned franchise around and it’s going to take some time. Â So this...
