Mar 8, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Seriously, what is wrong with this asshole? Won’t anyone tell him that he’s not funny, that his Harry Caray impression isn’t actually of Harry, but Will Ferrell doing Harry…poorly? On the surface, Ryan Dempster should be likable.  He seems...
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 29, 2012 | Featured, MLB
On Thursday, Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun beat the rap. Â After flunking a drug test during last year’s playoffs and getting caught red faced (especially around his upper lip), he managed to skip out on a mandatory 50 game suspension, because some dumb ass...
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...
