Who doesn’t love Phildo’s All-City teams?

Who doesn’t love Phildo’s All-City teams?

Jun 18, 2012 | Cubs, MLB

Did you know that the Cubs and Sox start a three game series tonight?  Apparently they do, and with the return of three more mildy interesting games comes a second chance for baseball genius Phil Rogers to pass on doing an All-City team, because nobody gives a shit....
Cubs Report: They’re bad

Cubs Report: They’re bad

Jun 1, 2012 | Cubs

We’re now two months into the Cubs season, and I know a lot of you are considering just ignoring the rest of the season.  The Cubs are bad, they are only occasionally actually fun to watch,and it’s summer.  You know, there are things like the beach,...
Kerry Wood has had enough of this bullshit

Kerry Wood has had enough of this bullshit

May 18, 2012 | Cubs

As retirements go, there have been more artfully executed ones.  Sometime yesterday, Kerry Wood decided he was going to retire…tonight, AFTER the Cubs game with the White Sox.  But he made the number one mistake you can make.  He told his wife.  So now...
Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997

Terrible Cubs of Recent Vintage: 1997

Apr 27, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories

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

Apr 26, 2012 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks

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...