Apr 8, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
As opening day got closer we were suddenly inundated with ads featuring the Cubs. Â 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...
Apr 3, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
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...
Apr 2, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
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...
Mar 30, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Yesterday we took a tour of the Cubs position players as we head into the 2012 season. Â It wasn’t a pretty sight. Â 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...
Mar 30, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Major League Baseball has officially hired recently retired Tony LaRussa as a “special advisor.” Â 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...
Mar 29, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
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. Â An outfield of four washed up guys and the plodding Joe Mather, an infield that’s...
