Power rankings are dumb

Power rankings are dumb

Every week MLB.com and ESPN.com and other .com’s push out their big league POWER RANKINGS!  WHO HAS THE POWER? WHO HAS MORE OR LESS POWER THAN THEY DID THE LAST TIME WE ARBITRARILY AWARDED THE POWER?  It’s pointless.  It’s dumb.  The only power rankings that matter...
Kyle Schwarber injury update and movie review?

Kyle Schwarber injury update and movie review?

HI GUYS.  INTER NET ASKED KYLE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE REHAB WORK I AM DOING ON MY LEG HINGE.  JUST PROMISE YOU WON’T PRINT THIS OUT AND TAKE IT TO THE BOYS ROOM WHEN YOU POOP.  I KNOW GUYS LIKE TO READ WHEN THEY POOP.  I SURE DO LIKE TO. EVERY DAY MEDICINE...
Are we enjoying this enough?

Are we enjoying this enough?

Old Ma Nature decided to give us all a little mental break last night, and she rained out the Cubs regularly scheduled win against the San Diego Padres.  I think we all needed it.  I was asleep by nine o’clock—on the couch, no less—mostly because our beloved,...
Dusty’s back!

Dusty’s back!

Baseball’s best team returns home tonight after just about as thorough a pants-ing of the next best team in a division that you’re ever going to see.  After falling behind 1-0 in the first game of the three-game sweep of Pissburgh, the Cubs kicked the...
Wrigley’s never looked better, just in time

Wrigley’s never looked better, just in time

With Opening Night (why are the Cubs opening at night…again?) just hours away, we’re getting our first good looks at the renovations to Wrigley Field that were mostly made on the outside this offseason. Quite frankly, the park has never looked better....
Buy the ticket, take the ride

Buy the ticket, take the ride

It was inevitable that whenever the Cubs rebuild showed promise that the world would jump on the bandwagon.  When dozens of “experts” pick the Cubs to win the World Series, like they have this year, it’s as much for the story as it is the team. The...