Cwis Wusso interviews Wen Kaspuh
The shoutiest of all MLB Network hosts, Christopher “Maddog” Russo had Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper on High Heat yesterday to talk about the upcoming Cubs season. I’ll admit that I generally like Russo, especially when he gets all wound…
Jeff Samardzija: The Mentalist
There are hazards to reading anything Rick Morrissey writes. Â Mostly, you risk the danger of another one of his ill-thought-out hot takes making you dumber, but occasionally, they can cause hysterical blindness. Â I’m not really sure what his meeting of the…
National League over/unders
A couple of days ago I broke down the Bovada over/unders for the American League. Â If White Sox fans could read, I’m sure they’d be extra angry with me. Â Today, lets check out them out for the National League, and, I’ll throw in extra prop bet for…
American League over/unders
Bovada in Las Vegas has posted its over/unders for every big league team in 2015. Â It’s an inexact science to be sure, and not only can I tell you which way to go, but I’ve got my own over/under for each team. Â Let’s start with the American League….
Why can’t Kris Bryant make the opening day roster?
Because the Cubs are no longer idiots. 26
As if you don’t already like Anthony Rizzo enough
Cubs fans have had basically a decade of great first basemen who also happen to be awesome people.27 Â If you didn’t get a chance to see the MLB Network features on Anthony Rizzo, his battle with cancer, his great story about the first time he met Jon Lester,…
NL Central position power rankings
You know a writer has run out of things to write about when he or she starts doing lists. Â The first official workout of spring training is still days away, so you are damn right I’m out of ideas. How about we rank every starter in the National League Central…
What to watch for in Cubs spring training
It’s officially less than a week until the start of spring training. Â The Cubs will be christening their newly named, year-old ballpark by giving away game used urinal pucks to the first 14 fans who attend the first workout. If you get one, don’t…
We just found the best feature in the Wrigley rebuild
The Cubs have released a video explaining ‘phase one’ of the Wrigley Field reconstruction. Â It’s got everything you’d expect. Â Some cool aerials shot by an illegal drone, lots of pictures of broken bricks in the snow, some architectural…
What is baseball trying to save itself from?
On Sunday, the world’s greatest Tweeter, Bruce Levine was on the Score talking about all of new MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s ideas about how to make baseball more interesting for “young people.” Â The ideas, hopefully aren’t really…
What if Bleed Cubbie Blue never existed?
I try not to spend that much of my time ripping things to pieces that Al Yellon has written. Frankly, I just don’t have the time. Even the shut-ins who actually frequent his site don’t have that kind of time. But sometimes, he tees one up so perfectly…
It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before
Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think…
Some Cubs fans are really cool
Not only does WGN do an excellent job actually broadcasting Cubs games, but every year at this time they put out a video that gets us all fired up for the season. Â In recent years, we had this sickly feeling that the video was going to be as good as it gets. Â This…
On second thought, let’s just play one
It’s great to see the sentiment, nationwide, after the passing of Cubs legend Ernie Banks. He was a great man, a great athlete and for a product of the Negro Leagues, who came to the Cubs in the 1950’s to spend more than 60 years as the face of the…
107 reasons to look forward to spring training
I have been working on this for a while and I wasn’t sure whether to leave the original #1 reason in or start over. Â Partly, because I’m still upset about the whole thing, but mostly because I’m too lazy to rewrite it, you’ll see what had me…
Cubs trade Valbuena; bail on another season
After letting one of their best players shoot off his mouth about winning the division this season, the Cubs wasted little time in sending an indisputable message of their own to their fans. “We hate you, and we want you to continue to suffer.” As though…
Cubs seeking radio pre and post game host
One of the interesting things about the Cubs leaving WGN radio for WBBM is that apparently WBBM doesn’t have anybody hired yet to do pre and post game shows. Hey, as long as it isn’t George Ofman, I think we’d all be happy. But they’ve…
The Sporting News is full of shit
If you missed it, and because it was in whatever is left of The Sporting News, you probably did, the once esteemed publication picked the Cubs to win the World Series. This season. I know. Fuck them, right? The Cubs have made great strides in the last three years,…