Jun 21, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
Sandwiched in between the 88 win near-miss 2001 Cubs and the 88 win heartbreaking 2003 Cubs were the gawdawful 2002 Cubs. They got a manager fired, which got Ron Santo’s number unofficially unretired before it could be retired. Moises Alou showed up and...
Jun 2, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The other 15 percent take center stage as the wheel of crap lands on 1983. Lee Elia stood up for his team said a lot of really profane but accurate things and ended up getting fired a few months later, Leon Durham was the only All-Star on the club, Chuck Rainey almost...
May 19, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs are ready to unveil the Fergie Jenkins statue, and the guys get so distracted by the fact the new “statue row” has two empty podiums that they spend the hour trying to figure out which players the Cubs are going to immortalize next. They’re...
May 12, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs went back to the playoffs for a second straight year, and won just as many postseason games as they did the year before. But this was a 97 win team with a Japanese star in right field, a Cardinals retread in center, and a rookie of the year catcher. It was...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1981 Cubs season was so bad that fans were relieved when baseball took two months off right in the middle of the season. The Cubs record was so lousy that they ended up with the first pick in the 1982 draft, but they didn’t have the worst record in the...
Apr 13, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1984 Cubs were mostly still around in 1986 only they were older and mostly injured and pretty bad. The Cubs got off to a hot start, if 2-8 is hot, Lee Smith pitched a lot, like a lot a lot, nobody won 10 games, Jim Frey got fired. The Cubs fielded a dream twosome...
