Tweetbag: Cubs’ bad closer Mt. Rushmore
Sometimes, you get a Tweet that demands more than a 280 character response. When the subject is worst closers in Cubs history, how can you avoid it? So, we open up the old Tweetbag for this from @FreedmanMatthew: I see that Gregg is actually pretty similar to Antonio…
If these balls could talk – Desipio Cubs Podcast
It’s just Mike and Andy this week, and they rename and then review a book they haven’t read, run through the long and undistinguished history of recent Cubs pitcher draft picks, try to figure out if Carlos Gonzalez is the next Jim Edmonds (in a good way),…
Fowl Balls – Desipio Cubs Podcast
The guys debate if Major League or Moneyball is the best baseball movie ever (and throw out a few other possibilities). They break down Kyle Schwarber round lead-off man. What, if anything, Carlos Gonzalez has left. Why Carl Edwards Jr. should never be trusted with a…
Shift for Brains – Desipio Cubs Podcast
How different was the world the last time the Brewers were on Sunday Night Baseball previous to last Sunday’s loss to the Cubs? What’s up with that lawsuit by the former Desipio lurker who claims Conan O’Brien stole five of his precious jokes?…
Deja Yu – Desipio Cubs Podcast
Audio only Subscribe to the podcast here – https://anchor.fm/desipio Episode rundown Segment One – Why Addison Russell still doesn’t get it, and probably never will. Two – There’s a Cubs Fan Code of Conduct? Three – What the hell is…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – Can you have a BIG series in May?
Subscribe to the podcast. The Podcast goes audio only this week, and Kyle is missing, Mike is missing Peter Mayhew, and the guys have actual segments. What the hell was Phil Rogers Tweeting about? What the hell was Joe Sheehan Tweeting about? Dave Kaplan’s…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – Not .500, but they can see it from here
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast Show notes – Conan O’Brien’s Joke-Theft Trial: Everything You Need to Know – Vanity Fair A Little Bit Bad. Comedy Writer Alex Kaseberg Looks like Patton Oswalt will get to testify on Conan’s behalf, and…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – What if they’re just bad?
Desipio Cubs Podcast – “Oh no, they suck again!”
This week it’s Andy and Mike without Kyle. Mike tells thrilling tales of his trip to Texas, Andy breaks news about the postgame after the postgame following Cubs games on NBC Sports Chicago, they try to make sense of Carl Edwards Jr’s ill-fated stop…
Desipio Cubs Podcast – 2019 Season Preview
Al got to interview Tom Ricketts again
Our old pal Alvin Yellon got another crack at interviewing Tom Ricketts (remember his previous disaster?), and it seems only fitting to take the time to take it down. So let’s get to it. MESA, Arizona — Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts had a busy Monday. First, he…
Goddamn this
I woke up this morning to a very large number in the red dot on my Twitter icon, and the first one I read said, “Desipio’s going to wake up to some bad news.” My immediate reaction was that Luis Valbuena had signed a contract with the Cardinals. As…
Grading the NFL announcing teams is not enough
Every year the fine people at Awful Announcing do a poll to grade the announcers in the major sports. A couple of days ago they released this year’s grades for all of the NFL announcing crews. But something was missing. It wasn’t the announcing teams,…
Podcast! – 2018 Playoff Preview: Game 163
You waited patiently for a year, and…they’re back! Andy, Mike and Kyle preview game 163 against the Brewers and, if needed, the Wild Card Game. Enjoy the nonsense: You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
You wanna gets nuts? Let’s get nuts!
Since many of you have decided the Cubs are going to finish the season with five more losses, what would happen if every team in the NL playoff hunt finished 91-71? What would that look like? It would be chaos. Glorious chaos. Because there’s only four…
Cut Mitch a little slack
All offseason the Bears media and Bears fans were aligned in their proclamations to give Mitch Trubisky some time to settle into the quarterback job before they freaked out one way or the other. That was never going to be true, and sure enough panic buttons were…
Same old Dusty
The old Dustbag, Johnnie B. Baker Jr. sat down (presumably without his large adult son Darren sitting on his lap) with The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal to talk about…well, let’s just say Dusty’s nothing if not consistent. Everything is always…
Tweetbag! Who is to blame for the Cubs’ shitty starting pitching?
You’ll be shocked to hear that Twitter doesn’t always foster the most nuanced discussions. Our old friend and sexy librarian Carrie Muskat doesn’t seem to do her mailbag anymore, and god knows when the last time hirejimessian.com did the Muskbox. …