So, it’s gonna happen

So, it’s gonna happen

On Friday, it seemed like another blow (in a bad way) to the crotch of the Cubs plans to dominate the National League for a decade or two.  Just days after Andrew Friedman left the Tampa Bay Raymonds for SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to vice president and generally...
Time to start thinking big

Time to start thinking big

This October has been different.  At least it feels different.  Maybe it’s because I have returned to the land of my birth from a short exile into the wilds of northern Michigan, maybe it’s because nothing in baseball seems to make any sense.  The past...
Tom Ricketts fires up the fans

Tom Ricketts fires up the fans

It’s that time of year again.  Cubs season ticket holders got their annual love letter from Tom Ricketts, where he thanks them for supporting them through thin and thin and reminds them that things won’t always this be this bad and asks them if they need...
The Cubs are going to have to save baseball

The Cubs are going to have to save baseball

It’s a tradition unlike any other.  It seems like every fall baseball gets ruined for me.  I love baseball, it’s my favorite sport.  I think it would have to be for me to devote as much time as I do to the Cubs.  But for going on 15 years now I just...
Things are about to get interesting

Things are about to get interesting

I’ve been around long enough to have seen some shit.  As a Cubs fan, it’s mostly all I’ve seen, to be honest.  In the last four decades the Cubs have been good approximately eight times. Eight. Oh, how humiliating. For the last three years they...
A referendum on dumbasses

A referendum on dumbasses

Last night’s trade of Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to the A’s for Addison Russell, Billy McKinney and Dan Straily is basically functioning as a referendum on which Cubs fans are the dumbest.  Not surprisingly it’s a several million way tie....