Mar 30, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Major League Baseball has officially hired recently retired Tony LaRussa as a “special advisor.” Â LaRussa will be paid $2.5 million to handle “special projects” and will not have to hang out in the New York MLB offices. Pretty amazing that the...
Mar 29, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Cubs functionally illiterate manager Dale Sveum has narrowed his 25 man roster down to 28 or so (nobody’s sure how high Dale can count), and it’s a sight to behold. Â An outfield of four washed up guys and the plodding Joe Mather, an infield that’s...
Mar 8, 2012 | Featured, MLB
The Cubs 30 Clubs in 30 Days is a gift that keeps on giving. Â First we had Ryan Dempster going all assclown and doing his horrendous Harry Caray impersonation, then we got Starlin Castro trying to explain how he’s going to fix his fielding by actually looking...
Mar 8, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
I love the fact that Starlin is doing interviews in English now. Â I can’t imagine trying to do that in a foreign language. Â But this segment with Harold Reynolds, between Starlin’s broken English and the fact that his “before” and...
Mar 8, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Seriously, what is wrong with this asshole? Won’t anyone tell him that he’s not funny, that his Harry Caray impression isn’t actually of Harry, but Will Ferrell doing Harry…poorly? On the surface, Ryan Dempster should be likable.  He seems...
Mar 7, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
There are two things I can’t quite understand about the Cubs bunting tournament. 1) The media’s fascination with tweeting out round by round results. Two years ago, most of these guys (and Carrie) acted like Twitter was way too complicated for them to ever...