The time the Cubs let Crane write the season ticket holder letter
As part of our ongoing (never ending, really) celebration of Desipio’s 20th anniversary, I’m still digging up golden oldies. Given the mild backlash my Monday Cub O’ Coffee column on The Athletic got because I was “mean to Tom Ricketts and…
The time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened
It’s still our 20th anniversary. Today we look back just a couple of years to the time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened yet. Originally posted, January 14, 2016 Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s…
The Angels secure Ohtani but will he live up to the hype?
In any sport, when the season finishes, fans as well as teams begin to take stock and the same question is usually on everyone’s lips: “Who can we get in to take us to the next level?” No matter if your side had a losing record, if they managed to scrape into…
Can Phil possibly keep up this pace?
Today is November 9 and if you figure that most teams report to Spring Training just after Valentine’s Day, there are about 13 weeks left in the offseason. Gang, I’m worried about Phil Rogers. He’s always been the standard bearer for dumb, but…
Podcast: 2017 NLCS Preview
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Sometimes it just takes balls
Sometime just after the four hour and 40 minute marathon panic attack that the Cubs put us through, as the TV showed them in their now iconic pose where they pile up for their playoff round victory photo on the pitcher’s mound, one thought popped into the fog of…
Doubt them at your own peril
I get it. I understand why you may be skeptical about the Cubs as they head back to the playoffs for the third straight year. The bullpen was better in the first half than the second. The starting pitching is quality, but in a bit of injury-induced disarray. The…
Podcast: 2017 NLDS Preview
The only negative thing about the Cubs making the playoffs is that when they do, these idiots host a podcast. This time, our heroes were joined by a third host and a very special guest. And, you’ll be shocked who they picked to win.
Baseball heaven will never be the same
Baseball gave the Best Fans in Baseball™ a swift kick in the gnads when they had the Cubs open the defense of their World Series title in Busch Stadium back in April. The Cardinals responded by bringing out the giant horses to crap all over the field, and they rolled…
The time the Cubs swept a doubleheader to win the NL Central
It’s a funny thing about the 2003 season, because it ended so horribly, and was followed up by the even worse experience of 2004 we don’t just not look back fondly on the season, we hardly look back on it at all. But until games five, six and seven of the…
Remember the time the Cubs banned me from Twitter?
Desipio is so old that when it started there wasn’t any social media. It’s not like Twitter made me more of a smartass, it just allowed me to inflict it on more people. Such is the price of fame that it occasionally comes back to bite people. Like when…
The joy of six
This has been a weird Cubs season. Not the least of reasons is that it started with them raising a World Series champions flag and carrying a big gold trophy around the field. But the team that roared through the regular season unchallenged last year couldn’t…
The time we had an oral history on the Cubs hiring Theo
It seems perfectly sensible now that Theo Epstein left the Red Sox to take on the task of rebuilding the Cubs, but at the time it was a complete shock. First, that Theo would want to come, and second, that the Ricketts didn’t screw it all up. Here’s the…
The time Lou Piniella sat in on a GameCast
Remember in 2007 when Lou Pinella lost his shit and kicked dirt all over a third base umpire? He got suspended and the Cubs went on their first decent winning streak of the season. We did a running diary of game two of his suspension on June 4, 2007 against the…
Remember “Who owns the Cubs?”
In our twentieth year (no shit) we’re taking looks back at great moments in Desipio history. In our first installment we relived the Cubs winning the World Series.41 But today we revisit an absolute classic. We’re going back to February 9, 2011 when…
Two decades of morans
And they said it wouldn’t last. Actually, nobody said that because nobody knew it was around. On July 24, 1997 a little website popped up in an obscure corner of a still obscure thing called the Internet. The site wasn’t yet called Desipio, it was still…
Parades over prospects
There are many great traditions that Cubs fans have. Flying the W flag after wins. Throwing opponents’ home runs back onto the field. Checking out each other’s dongs at the troughs.50 And overvaluing prospects they’ve never seen play. Granted, the…
What the hell is wrong with the Cubs?
The Cubs…wait…the World Champion Chicago Cubs…are a whopping 32-33. They have perfected mediocrity a year after posting one of the best seasons in MLB history. They’ve managed to do it without a serious injury. Why it’s happened is a…