Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
Former Daily Herald Cubs’ reporter Bruce Miles is back to discuss his new blog at brucemiles.net, his new book, “The Phenom” and to talk a lot about the Cubs current and past. Has the Cubs’ six-game losing streak given the team permission to...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
All Cubs seasons are fun to re-live (well, most of them) but some are more fun than others and this time the wheel of crap has gifted us the incredible, ridiculous, insane 1998 Cubs. Sammy Sosa homered every day, Kerry Wood struck out everybody, Terry Mulholland...
Jun 25, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
The season opened in the land of the rising sun and sunk pretty quickly afterwards. Don Baylor was the new Groove in town and he brought back a mediocre former Cubs catcher and an actual lead off man. Kerry Wood didn’t debut until May after surviving his bout...
Jun 16, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
It’s time once again to spin the wheel of crap and this time it lands on 1996. Jim Riggleman’s fighting Cubs tanked down the stretch (surprise), Sammy was bad at the start then great and then got hurt, Ryne Sandberg came back, Doug Jones hit the road,...
Jun 11, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
I’m happy that Wrigley Field is back to full capacity starting today, but is it really smart to allow mouth breathing Cardinals fans into a packed stadium? Having Yadi breathing on people on the field is bad enough, but we know the people least likely to be...
Jun 10, 2021 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast
When the 2021 Cubs tied the 1977 team for best record in May, it made us wonder what the hell happened to those 1977 Cubs. They had an 8.5 game lead and finished 20 games out of first, somehow. So, Mike D. and I brought in old friend Frank Nova (we needed somebody old...
