Welcome back, Starlin
Every few years baseball’s schedule rolls around and the New York Yankees play the Cubs. It’s a big deal, because, let’s be honest, it’s the Yankees. Twenty-seven World Series championships and a boatload of Hall of Famers in your history…
Let’s go to the video tape
I’ve seen a lot of supercuts of game seven of the World Series. They’re all good, but the one Start Kyle Orton posted on his Facebook feed today is the best I’ve seen. Enjoy. And, the Cubs really stepped it up with this year’s Bryzzo’s…
Cubs Report: World Champs Edition
The defending world champion Chicago Cubs. Is that a real thing? Did I hallucinate all of that stuff in October and November? Even if I did, don’t tell me. So anyway… The defending world champion Chicago Cubs mount their first World Series defense in 108 years on…
Does anybody really miss Sammy?
Sammy Sosa’s back in the news. Have you missed him? Probably not. Former Cubs Manager of Media Relations and the man behind the Cubs half-assed, first-ever attempt at a baseball analytics department, Chuck Wasserstrom has posted an interview with Sammy on his…
The Cardinals punishment is bullshit
For nearly three years a St. Louis Cardinals executive continually hacked into the scouting database of another Major League Baseball team, using their research, stealing their medical reports, and constantly checking and re-checking the notes they were keeping on…
The podcast you never thought would happen
When was the last time your favorite team won the World Series? Ours won it last week! We’re going to re-live the whole thing one more time (who are we kidding, it won’t be the last). Join us live at 10 am Central on Saturday, November 12 as we talk…
The Immortals
Of course, they made us wait. A four run lead in the fifth wasn’t enough. A three run lead in the eighth wasn’t enough. The Cubs couldn’t, wouldn’t and maybe, they shouldn’t have, made it easy on themselves or on us. It took almost…
1,000 Words
Anthony Rizzo and His Immortals. (And Chris Coghlan.)
This is just the greatest damned thing ever
I’ve been accused of beating a joke into the ground (Hank White Fan Club, Luis Valbuena: superstar, Al Yellon is awful) oh, wait, not that last one. But when I predicted and continued to predict1 that Kyle Schwarber’s season wasn’t really over when…
Podcast: World Series (no, really) preview
Since that little event called the World Series starts Tuesday night, if we were going to cram in a podcast we figured we’d better do it quick. Last week when we signed off we knew the only way we’d back this week is if the Cubs won the pennant. Well,…
Call the kids, wake the neighbors, the Cubs are going to the World Series
I have said, out loud, to no one in particular, that I absolutely want to see the Cubs win a World Series (or two, or seven) but that I’d only really be pissed if I died and never saw these fuckers win a pennant. And tonight, we all saw that, and it…
Same place, different time
My wife knows nothing about baseball 4 and so this morning she asked me, “How many more games do they need to win to go to the World Series?” When I told her that they just need to win one more, either Saturday or Sunday she said, “Oh, good. That will be fun.” And I…
Mailbag: Why Eric Cooper is the worst
It’s been a while since I opened the old mailbag, but as promised on Twitter the other night, Intrepid Reader @andyrut sent in his surreal interaction with umpire Eric Cooper. Cooper called balls and strikes in game two and showed off his patented wide, and…
Podcast Live? – NLCS Preview – 9:30 am CST – Saturday, Oct. 15
Thanks to the miracles of modern technology you can watch the dopes from Desipio and Hire Jim Essian record their Cubs NLCS preview podcast live. They’re going to do it at 9:30 Saturday morning. It’s basically “Breakfast at Wimble-dumb.” And…
Once more into the breach
I think it was King Henry V or maybe it was Henry Aaron, but whichever Henry said, “Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more” probably wasn’t thinking about the Cubs returning to the NLCS just 12 months after they made a complete mess of…
Did that really happen?
It was one of those things that happens to other teams. Their fans get to see their favorite team rally from what feels like an impossible situation when it means the most. It doesn’t happen often, in fact, it hardly ever happens, but when it does, you always wonder…
The end starts tonight
Cubs in three. There, I said it. A sweep. Two at Wrigley this weekend, then wrap it up with a beatdown of the humorless, wannabe cowboy, fun police captain on Monday night. Crazy, you say? These the are Giants! They’ve won three of the last five World Series! …
The podcast returns for the playoffs
It’s been about 350 days since their last one but the dopes from Desipio and Hire Jim Essian sat down for 90 minutes of pure podcast goodness. Or ramblings. Or something. If you don’t want to look at them you can subscribe to it on iTunes.