Oct 23, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, Podcast
Since that little event called the World Series starts Tuesday night, if we were going to cram in a podcast we figured we’d better do it quick. Last week when we signed off we knew the only way we’d back this week is if the Cubs won the pennant. Well,...
Oct 23, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
I have said, out loud, to no one in particular, that I absolutely want to see the Cubs win a World Series (or two, or seven) but that I’d only really be pissed if I died and never saw these fuckers win a pennant. And tonight, we all saw that, and it...
Oct 21, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
My wife knows nothing about baseball 2 and so this morning she asked me, “How many more games do they need to win to go to the World Series?” When I told her that they just need to win one more, either Saturday or Sunday she said, “Oh, good. That will be fun.” And I...
Oct 18, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, Mailbag
It’s been a while since I opened the old mailbag, but as promised on Twitter the other night, Intrepid Reader @andyrut sent in his surreal interaction with umpire Eric Cooper. Cooper called balls and strikes in game two and showed off his patented wide, and...
Oct 14, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, Podcast
Thanks to the miracles of modern technology you can watch the dopes from Desipio and Hire Jim Essian record their Cubs NLCS preview podcast live. They’re going to do it at 9:30 Saturday morning. It’s basically “Breakfast at Wimble-dumb.” And...
Oct 14, 2016 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
I think it was King Henry V or maybe it was Henry Aaron, but whichever Henry said, “Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more” probably wasn’t thinking about the Cubs returning to the NLCS just 12 months after they made a complete mess of...
