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...
Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
The only reason reasonable people follow USA Today baseball writer Bob Nightengale on Twitter is either because they, like Bob, are founding members of the Dusty Baker Fan Club, or just for the amusement you get from the stupid shit that he writes. The Baseball Hall...
Jan 22, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
It’s an odd time for Chicago sports to say the least. The Bears are rebuilding (again) with a quarterback who presumably likes his queso with actual cheese and plans to vaccinate his unborn kids. Oh, and their coach is actually younger than Tom Brady. The...
Jan 20, 2018 | Cubs, Featured, MLB
Every year at the Cubs Convention somebody asks Tom Ricketts a question about Sammy Sosa and every year (at least since 2010) Tom bungles the answer. It should not be a hard question to field, especially since he knows it’s coming. What he should do is...
Jan 19, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
As part of our ongoing (never ending, really) celebration of Desipio’s 20th anniversary, I’m still digging up golden oldies. Given the mild backlash my Monday Cub O’ Coffee column on The Athletic got because I was “mean to Tom Ricketts and...
Jan 4, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
It’s still our 20th anniversary. Today we look back just a couple of years to the time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened yet. Originally posted, January 14, 2016 Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s...
