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

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...

Cubs Live? Cubs at Satanic Fowl, 12:45 pm

May 15, 2012 | Cubs Live, MLB

CHC: Paul Maholm 4-2, 4.05 ERA STL: Kyle Lohse 5-1, 2.08 ERA

Phildo’s Power Wankings: Can’t stop that Braves offense!

May 9, 2012 | Media Hacks, MLB

Last time on Mild Retardation Theater, Phil waxed poetic about…Curtis Granderson…again (I know, right?), how Kenny Williams assraped Brad Eldred’s budding career four years ago and how Marlon Byrd’s mere presence had righted whatever was...

Phildo’s Power Wankings: The (not) putting Pujols into context edition

May 2, 2012 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB

When last we heard from our ranking hero Phil Rogers he was trying to understand the Spinx that is Chad Billingsley, he was rewarding the Mets scrappy start by moving them down the rankings, and he wanted to rank the plucky Indians higher, but the feces throwing...

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...