No good reason not to send Javy Baez down
The darker, dumber corners of the Interwebs reacted with much shock at the news that the Cubs sent prized prospect Javier Baez to minor league camp last week. Â To the unwashed and unenlightened this was simply the Cubs sending their best player to the minor leagues…
Cacti League Diary – A Day in the Life
Our next installment in a spring-long first-person account of the Cubs season by the greatest Cub of them all, Luis Valbuena. Â How long into the season this goes…well, only God, Emilio Bonifacio and Rick(y) Renteria know for sure. The worst part of spring…
Fox baseball booth to get more crowded, more huggy
So, The Big Lead is reporting that Fox Sports will announce this week that they will replace Tim McCarver with not one, but two analysts, to join the Joe Buck smarm-fest in their number one baseball booth starting this season. One choice is fairly inspired. Â The…
Cubs release 2014 promotional schedule
So the Cubs are billing this 2014 season the “Party of the Century.” Â Oh, boy. They released the promo schedule today. Â Keep in mind it’s Wrigley’s 100th anniversary, so some of the giveaways are not entirely Cubs focused. Â For…
Cactus League Diary – The Greatest Double Play of All-Time
So sure, we got scooped last week by the dreamy Patrick Mooney, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going forward with it. Â Today starts what is definitely a spring-long first-person account of the Cubs season by the greatest Cub of them all, Luis Valbuena….
Cacti League Preview
While winter up here shows no signs of letting up, the Cubs are in a brand new ballpark, soaking up the sun and getting ready for another awesome season of baseball, down there in Mesa, Arizona. Cactus League games start on Thursday, and Desipio.com is your one stop…
David Haugh is teh stupids
It’s so easy to ignore David Haugh’s existence that after awhile you forget just how colossally stupid he is. Â Then, occasionally, he goes out of his way to remind us. Â Today was one of those days. Maybe he figured that because he and Dave Kaplan were…
Betting tips on baseball: who will win this year’s MLB?
The Boston Red Sox winning of the 2013 MLB World Series has not been sufficient to make them the hot favourites to do the same again next year – although at 11/1, they are not exactly rank outsiders either. Despite being just behind the LA Dodgers in the bookies…
Cubs Preview: The Rotation
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Bullpen
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Outfielders
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Infielders
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon.  So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Monday we checked out the catchers….
Cubs Preview: Catchers
Spring Training starts this week…well, at the least the part where guys play catch and we pretend like winter will be over soon. Â So now seems as good a time as any to break down the mighty Chicago Cubs position by position. Today? Â Let’s squat. Catchers…
How to talk to your dogs and cats about the Sochi Olympics
There have been a lot of pixels spilled about what’s going on in Sochi, Russia in the final hours before the Olympics officially start. Most of it is about how jacked up the hotel rooms and toilets are for the journalists who are arriving to cover the games….
Movie Review: 100 Years of Wrigley Field
One of the perks of being a big time journalist like myself is that you get exclusive access to things that mere mortals don’t. Â I’m used to it, so I was unimpressed when the Cubs asked me to be one of the first to review their new movie “100 Years…
New shit has come to light
Granted, I was 11 years old in 1984, but I thought I remembered most of the important stuff that happened that year. Â I did not remember this: This video has it all. Â It’s got Harry in his prime and he’s caught in mid-sentence bragging about his White…
Does anybody like anything the Cubs are doing?
In an effort to needlessly remind us how incompetent they are at pretty much everything, the Cubs, to their own astonishment, unveiled a new mascot yesterday and everybody hated…him? Â It? Â Whatever. Â Clark the Cub is meant to hug the shit out of little Cubs…
Bears fans and media really are the worst
When Jay Cutler left his groin in a pile in DC several weeks ago, we all thought the season was over. Â Once again, an injury to the one competent Bears QB on the roster would fell the entire house of cards and we’d have months of terrible football to slog…