Aug 7, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Podcast
The podcast is back after weeks off, and really, you’d think we’d have better stuff saved up. Â But, we do talk a lot of baseball for a change, I make some TV recommendations, Kermit apparently has played every video game ever and Warren’s big book...
Jul 30, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
The trade deadline is fast approaching the Cubs have already done quite a bit of heavy lifting. Â Matt Garza is off to pie people in Texas in the face. Â Alfonso Soriano is the third youngest Yankee. Â Scott Hairston it…wait, was he ever really even on the team?...
Jul 29, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks
I got the word this afternoon that Paul Sullivan was no longer with us. Â It’s a sad day, gang. Â A sad, sad day. Bruce Miles doesn’t need this kind of pressure. Â He’s got to do all the work, and they only let him work half the time. So try to hold...
Jul 29, 2013 | Cubs, Featured, Oral Histories
Over the weekend, Al at bleedcubbieblue.com really stepped up his game and wrote about 10,000 words on the different start times of Cubs games at Wrigley Field over the years. Â Now, everyone knows that Al and I are regular chums and I only pretend to give him a hard...
Jul 26, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
Has it really been seven years? Â We were so young then, weren’t we? Â On that November Sunday when the Cubs threw silly money at the flawed, but best free agent on the market and brought Alfonso Soriano to town. Â The contract seemed way too long. Â Eight years...
Jul 25, 2013 | Cubs, Featured
So the Matt Garza era is over in Chicago. Â The man good enough to be traded for Sam Fuld, has been shipped off to Arlington, Texas where he’ll join a really talented team with a batshit crazy (and likely coked up) manager. Â Garza will fit right in. Â Though at...
