This would have been too good to be true

Jul 24, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”  But what did he know?  And besides, if the Cubs had brought E-ramis Ramirez back for a two and a half month swan song, E-ramis is Dominican, so we can ask Colin Cowherd if...

Taylor Teagarden and the Miracle of GAB

Jul 23, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

There are signs, there are omens, and then…there are things that can only be explained as truly miraculous. The 20,000 or so people who actually stayed through the end of the second game of yesterday’s Cubs-Reds doubleheader at Great American Ballpark...

Starlin is a rough watch

Jul 21, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

I’m pretty sure that I still like Starlin Castro more than most Cubs fans.  I’m pretty sure that if you like him “at all” it’s more than most Cubs fans.  We have history with Starlin.  He was a 19 year old rookie called up to a bad...

Cubs at the break: By God, they are actually good!

Jul 16, 2015 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

Sports fans are the worst, aren’t we?  If, back in spring training, you were assured that the Cubs would go into the All-Star Break seven games over .500, in the lead for the last playoff spot in the National League, and that Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo would...

Coghlan’s a good man, and thorough

Jul 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Circuitous flyball route taker and world champion strikeout pouter Chris Coghlan’s production should actually continue to go up now that (for a brief moment, at least) Chris Denforia and Jorge Soler are actually healthy at the same time.  Coghlan and Denorfia...

Goddamnit, they are fun to watch

Jun 25, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Someday, you’ll be old like me, and things that you were sure would always be true will change and you won’t believe them.  Given that I like drinking beer and eating food that I know is horrible for me, I figure I’m halfway to dead. I’ve...