Oral History: Neifi saves the season
The 2016 Cubs created a new generation of Cubs legends with guys you will never forget for all the best reasons. But lost in the glow of a world’s championship are the Cubs who paved the way. The greats who toiled in the obscurity of losing. Those who should…
Spoiler alert: They’re going to do it again
Two years ago the Cubs were indisputably the best team in baseball. They won 103 games and they somehow toted 108 years of baggage all the way to the finish line and, maybe you’ve heard this, won the World Series. They did it with an impossibly young team, and…
2018 MLB Over/Unders
t’s a tradition unlike any other. No, it’s not Jim Nantz creepily giving his tie to a player after the national championship game. It’s time to check out the Bovada over/unders for wins and figure out which side to get on. Arizona D’bags 85.5…
An oral history of the Mitch Trubisky trade
Bears fans booed. Mike Glennon wept. John Fox looked confused. John Lynch’s CTE subsided just long enough for him to act smug and get kudos from the sycophantic NFL media. And that was just when they found out that Chris Berman wasn’t going to host the…
In defense of Joe Maddon
So crazy Joe Maddon wandered into a boutique shop and saw some awful mashup art on the wall and commissioned the “artist” to make four posters showing how to put “the art in baseball?” Coming off last year’s lame “D-Peat”…
Joe’s new motivational idea is a real work of art
So, Joe Maddon has decided to put “the art back in baseball” with some commissioned artwork of dubious quality. The pieces are mash ups of famous works of art with some lame baseball imagery and graffiti on them. I personally prefer the one that…
An oral history of the Yu Darvish press conference
There’s really no better way to get the inside story on something than to do in-depth interviews with the people involved and let them tell their story in the form of an oral history. A crucial part of that is to let the event breathe, and age, so you can give…
The Brewers insecurity is reaching St. Louisian levels
So, it’s come to this. The Brewers, a franchise that is such an afterthought that they left the American League in 1998 and nobody even noticed, are apparently tired of Cubs fans coming to games and helping them fill up their weird pole barn with the garage…
MLB players v. owners – Whose side we got?
It’s been a while since we’ve been asked to choose a side between millionaire baseball players and billionaire owners. The last time we really had to do it, Don Fehr was freshening up his lipstick and leading the MLB Players’ Association to five…
Cubs finally replace Tony Campana
While we all sit around waiting for Yu Darvish to give the free agent stalemate a good Roto Rootering by finally picking a team, the Cubs have decided to mock us to our faces. On Thursday they announced they had re-signed former Cubs outfielder Damon…
Desipio Mailbag – Twelve million dollar ham sandwiches and Taco Bell orders
You have questions, and I have half-assed answers. The Desipio Mailbag makes a triumphant return and if you have burning questions (likely a result of sitting on Ryan Braun’s toilet seat), you can send them to me at ask@desipio.com. And remember, there are no…
Free ideas for the XFL
So, Vince McMahon is proof of something the Cubs last reminded us of a couple of years ago with Chris Coghlan–a bad idea repeated is still a really bad idea. He’s bringing back the XFL, the league that brought us guys paralyzing themselves chasing after…
Milwaukee’s loading up to host the Wild Card game
Over the span of an hour the Brewers traded a pair of top-100 prospects for Christian Yelich and then signed Lorenzo Cain for $80 million over five years. Those are a couple of bold moves, and just the kind that will energize the only fanbase in the league that would…
Bob Nightengale’s Hall of Fame ballot is the worst
The only reason reasonable people follow USA Today baseball writer Bob Nightengale on Twitter is either because they, like Bob, are founding members of the Dusty Baker Fan Club, or just for the amusement you get from the stupid shit that he writes. The Baseball Hall…
Stop worrying and enjoy the Bulls
Just before opening night I said, out loud, to no one in particular, “I’m not even going to watch a single Bulls game this year.” They were going to be so bad, and all I’d read and heard was that the haul they got for Jimmy Butler was so…
If the White Sox didn’t have a radio deal would you notice?
It’s an odd time for Chicago sports to say the least. The Bears are rebuilding (again) with a quarterback who presumably likes his queso with actual cheese and plans to vaccinate his unborn kids. Oh, and their coach is actually younger than Tom Brady. The…
Moron the Cubs stance on Sammy
Every year at the Cubs Convention somebody asks Tom Ricketts a question about Sammy Sosa and every year (at least since 2010) Tom bungles the answer. It should not be a hard question to field, especially since he knows it’s coming. What he should do is…
Why do I do this to myself?
It’s my own fault, I know that. Nobody forced me to do it, I brought it on myself. For some reason, I keep listening to the Bill Simmons podcasts when he has Mike Francesa on to talk NFL playoffs and make their laughably bad picks. If you haven’t…