Dodgers tribute to Vin Scullly

As an unabashed Cubs fan, and loather of all…most…things Dodger (especially Ken Landreaux), it may surprise you that I love Vin Scully.  He’s the best, by such a long way that there is no number two.  The Dodgers had an awesome bobblehead night for...

This is just the kind of stuff we miss

Now that the 90th greatest Cub of all-time is off to Texas, look at the hilarity we are missing: I love MLB Network, but if someone would invent a Kevin Millar filter that would change the channel whenever he’s about to come on, they’d make a billion...
Dempster’s full-page ad

Dempster’s full-page ad

Predictably, on his way out to Texas (where he proved his value by allowing 8 earned runs in 4 1/3 IP last night), Ryan Dempster took the time to take out a full page ad in one of the local papers.  Much to the chagrin of Sun-Times hack Gordon Wittenmyer (who gets a...

A Desipio oral history of the Ryan Dempster trade

Ryan Dempster, Cubs pitcher 2004-2012 I said all along that all I wanted to do was help the Cubs, and if I could help them by being traded to a contender for some supergreat prospects, then I was happy to do it.  Theo [Epstein, Cubs President of Baseball Operations]...

They don’t did a trade

Twitter is a pretty great place, and these are the salad days. In the past three days I’ve gotten into a Twitter argument with my old nemesis @jacquejones11 (here), I predicted to the second when Chip Caray (@kapaya1234 – here) would Twitter ban me, and...

My side of the story — by Ryan Dempster

Hello again, everybody, it’s your old friend Harry Caray here to talk to you about a really important subject…drinking Budweiser! Nah, just kidding, it’s your old pal Demps.  How’s it going?  Had you going there didn’t I?  I...