Look at this gem: Hot Days of August!

Feb 12, 2013 | Cubs

YouTube is the greatest.  Check this out.  Here’s a commercial free version of a late season special produced by WGN-TV in 1984 recapping the rise of the Cubs.  You get Steve Stone in a leisure suit, Harry in a sissy blue sweater, Jim Frey creepily staring...

Soul crushing flashback: Cubs-Padres Game 5, 1984

Feb 11, 2013 | Cubs

All winter long I’ve been tempted to take the time to watch the replay of game five of the 1984 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Padres.  Why?  I mean, I know how it ends, and it’s ugly and painful.  But I was 11 years old when it...

Podcast 9 — Kegel Convention?

Jan 28, 2013 | Cubs, Podcast

This podcast has actual breaking news in it. Well, it would have if we didn’t wait five days to publish it. We lament the addition of yet another Hairston. And, we talk about Candy Maldonado. Well, why wouldn’t we? Oh, and Pre, I talk about your extra long...

These Duquettes are pretty awesome

Jan 22, 2013 | MLB

As a frequent listener of MLB Network Radio, I have come to appreciate the level headed analysis of former Mets and Orioles GM Jim Duquette (he’s the cousin of current Orioles GM Dan).  This summer, Jim was gone for a while, because his ten year old daughter...

Conventional wisdom

Jan 21, 2013 | Cubs

In case you didn’t notice (and judging by the attendance, you didn’t), the Cubs Convention was this last weekend.  Loveable LoserFest had a new home, this time the Sheraton hosted the events, and the first thing Cubs fans did was complain that the...