What is baseball trying to save itself from?

Feb 10, 2015 | Featured, MLB

On Sunday, the world’s greatest Tweeter, Bruce Levine was on the Score talking about all of new MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s ideas about how to make baseball more interesting for “young people.”  The ideas, hopefully aren’t really...

It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before

Feb 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think...

Some Cubs fans are really cool

Feb 5, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Not only does WGN do an excellent job actually broadcasting Cubs games, but every year at this time they put out a video that gets us all fired up for the season.  In recent years, we had this sickly feeling that the video was going to be as good as it gets.  This...

On second thought, let’s just play one

Jan 27, 2015 | Cubs

It’s great to see the sentiment, nationwide, after the passing of Cubs legend Ernie Banks.  He was a great man, a great athlete and for a product of the Negro Leagues, who came to the Cubs in the 1950’s to spend more than 60 years as the face of the...

107 reasons to look forward to spring training

Jan 26, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

I have been working on this for a while and I wasn’t sure whether to leave the original #1 reason in or start over.  Partly, because I’m still upset about the whole thing, but mostly because I’m too lazy to rewrite it, you’ll see what had me...

Cubs trade Valbuena; bail on another season

Jan 19, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

After letting one of their best players shoot off his mouth about winning the division this season, the Cubs wasted little time in sending an indisputable message of their own to their fans. “We hate you, and we want you to continue to suffer.” As though...