Fisted Foul Live! NLCS Game Three

Game three of the NLCS is conveniently being played today at 3 pm Central time and many of us are going to be stuck at work without any way of watching it.  (Except for on TV, or the Web, or listening to it, or watching a Gamecast or…oh, shut up, you know what...

Hire Mike Quade

The Cubs 8-3 win over Houston on the second to last day of the season gave them their first series win (in six tries) against the hapless Astros.  It also pushed the Cubs record under interim manager Mike Quade to an impressive 24-12, and that includes an absurd 17-4...

Are the Cubs better after the fire sale?

At and around the trade deadline the Cubs, wallowing in fifth place, traded away their best starting pitcher, their opening day shortstop, a second baseman, their All-Star first baseman and their manager retired because frankly, going home to a sick mother was a more...

Big Z is kicking ass and confusing the Cubs

For any other team, this development would be manna from Heaven.  An overpriced, overemotional pitcher who the team had completely written off has turned himself back into one of the best pitchers in the National League with a stretch run that has taken his trade...

Mike Quade Fan Club gets the good news

Exclusive footage of the reaction of the Official Mike Quade Fan Club hearing the news that he would be named interim manager of the Cubs. The tension builds as Jim Hendry announces the ten candidates for the interim job, and the guy who looks like Geovany Soto gets a...

I hate them now more than ever

So Lou Piniella called it a career yesterday.  After 48 years as a player, general manager and manager, he took off his uniform for the last time and headed home to Tampa to take care of his mother.  I’m sure a lot of people don’t believe that’s...