Feb 15, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
So, Joe Maddon has decided to put “the art back in baseball” with some commissioned artwork of dubious quality. The pieces are mash ups of famous works of art with some lame baseball imagery and graffiti on them. I personally prefer the one that...
Feb 14, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Oral Histories
There’s really no better way to get the inside story on something than to do in-depth interviews with the people involved and let them tell their story in the form of an oral history. A crucial part of that is to let the event breathe, and age, so you can give...
Feb 8, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
So, it’s come to this. The Brewers, a franchise that is such an afterthought that they left the American League in 1998 and nobody even noticed, are apparently tired of Cubs fans coming to games and helping them fill up their weird pole barn with the garage...
Feb 7, 2018 | Featured, MLB
It’s been a while since we’ve been asked to choose a side between millionaire baseball players and billionaire owners. The last time we really had to do it, Don Fehr was freshening up his lipstick and leading the MLB Players’ Association to five...
Feb 1, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
While we all sit around waiting for Yu Darvish to give the free agent stalemate a good Roto Rootering by finally picking a team, the Cubs have decided to mock us to our faces. On Thursday they announced they had re-signed former Cubs outfielder Damon...
Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, MLB
Over the span of an hour the Brewers traded a pair of top-100 prospects for Christian Yelich and then signed Lorenzo Cain for $80 million over five years. Those are a couple of bold moves, and just the kind that will energize the only fanbase in the league that would...
