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...
You do understand what rebuilding means, right?

You do understand what rebuilding means, right?

Apr 22, 2012 | Cubs, Featured

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...