Mar 6, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
I know that High Heat and MVP Baseball 2005 get a lot of love as the greatest video baseball games ever, and I loved them both, and RBI Baseball, of course. Â But the gold standard has to be The Show now. I’m a mostly grown man and my wife will occasionally hear...
Mar 5, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
When Dale Sveum wrote out his intersquad lineup and had Alfonso Soriano listed as his leadoff hitter, I was impressed. Â I had no idea Sveum could spell anything with more than one syllable. Â When he did it again for the Cacti League opener, I was intrigued. Â When I...
Feb 29, 2012 | Featured, MLB
On Thursday, Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun beat the rap. Â After flunking a drug test during last year’s playoffs and getting caught red faced (especially around his upper lip), he managed to skip out on a mandatory 50 game suspension, because some dumb ass...
Feb 21, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over. Â To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof. Â Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not...
Feb 13, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris. Â It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a...
Feb 10, 2012 | Cubs, Featured
The 2012 Cubs are unique, not in that they’re going to be bad, but because they’re actually designed to be that way. Â Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are trying to turn the whole damned franchise around and it’s going to take some time. Â So this...
