Cubs Report: Starlin’s pretty awesome

Cubs Report: Starlin’s pretty awesome

Back before the season started, some sage looked at the Cubs first 12 games (home series with Pissburgh and Arizona, road trips to Milwaukee and Houston) and declared that they’d better go  at least 7-5 or else.  I’m not sure what I meant by or else, but...
Oh how humiliating

Oh how humiliating

After a promising start to a weekend series up in Wisconsin, the Cubs outdid themselves on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, Matt Garza gave up eight more hits (only 20 allowed in two starts so far–awesome) and the Cubs didn’t bother to score.  But then,...
Drunk Cub fan

Drunk Cub fan

There really is no more hit or miss assignment in TV or radio than the man on the street, and we have this new classic from WBEZ where a bald guy with a beard (always looks like their head was installed upside down) interviews a drunk Cubs fan. She’s the perfect...
Genius loves to banter

Genius loves to banter

Nobody, it would seem, is better equipped to spar with the media after games than The Genius in St. Louis.  Tony LaRussa is a bona fide lawyer.  The man studied how to argue.  And so, you’d expect that he’d enjoy the give and take that you get in a...
Starlin’s no Corey Patterson

Starlin’s no Corey Patterson

If you didn’t know Chris Deluca still had a job at a Chicago newspaper, you’re not alone.  But sure enough, there he was on Sunday twatting away about how the Cubs were going to ruin Starlin Castro just like they ruined Corey Patterson. Apparently, Deluca...
Desipio Live! — Opening Day Pissburgh at Cubs

Desipio Live! — Opening Day Pissburgh at Cubs

Winter’s over, though the weather hasn’t figured it out.  But the Cubs are back, and so are we.  We didn’t invent the GameCast (actually, maybe we did) but we certainly perfected it. This year you can participate from anywhere.  You can comment...