Wanna watch Pope John Paul II hit in a batting cage?
Of course you do. Donn Pall played for both the White Sox and Cubs, looks like they signed the wrong Pontiff.
Look at this gem: Hot Days of August!
YouTube is the greatest. Â Check this out. Â Here’s a commercial free version of a late season special produced by WGN-TV in 1984 recapping the rise of the Cubs. Â You get Steve Stone in a leisure suit, Harry in a sissy blue sweater, Jim Frey creepily staring…
Soul crushing flashback: Cubs-Padres Game 5, 1984
All winter long I’ve been tempted to take the time to watch the replay of game five of the 1984 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Padres. Why? I mean, I know how it ends, and it’s ugly and painful. But I was 11 years old when it…
Podcast: Ep 10 – The Mob Lawyer
We’re even more off the rails that normal in this one, but there’s some pretty good stuff. Â Stick around to the end, and listen to my unbelievable (and true) story of my wife’s Jim Hendry-like negotiating skills. Download the ep here, or sign up at…
Just something I drew today
Enjoy.
Podcast 9 — Kegel Convention?
This podcast has actual breaking news in it. Well, it would have if we didn’t wait five days to publish it. We lament the addition of yet another Hairston. And, we talk about Candy Maldonado. Well, why wouldn’t we? Oh, and Pre, I talk about your extra long…
These Duquettes are pretty awesome
As a frequent listener of MLB Network Radio, I have come to appreciate the level headed analysis of former Mets and Orioles GM Jim Duquette (he’s the cousin of current Orioles GM Dan). Â This summer, Jim was gone for a while, because his ten year old daughter…
Conventional wisdom
In case you didn’t notice (and judging by the attendance, you didn’t), the Cubs Convention was this last weekend. Â Loveable LoserFest had a new home, this time the Sheraton hosted the events, and the first thing Cubs fans did was complain that the…
Rejected by the Muskbox: Big Z, uniforms and gainful employment
A tradition unlike any other. Â Dumb Cubs fans ask Carrie Muskat questions for her Cubs.com column, Hire Jim Essian makes fun of them, and then, Carrie sends me the ones so dumb they didn’t even make it in, in the first place. There’s no time to waste (she…
Podcast: Episode 8 – Hall of Shame
Back from our long holiday hiatus, our heroes are reunited to talk about 40th wedding anniversary Alaskan cruises, Jeff Bagwell’s batting stance, Barry Bonds’ growing cranium, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the meet up for this year’s Cubs…
Valbueno
Move over Call of Duty 7: Global Disembowelment of Friend and Foe, here’s the newest best-selling game of all-time. This means, this game probably drops to the second half of the all-time top 10. Â But Hank’s still playing, so there’s time to get…
My Hall of Fame ballot
I never knew that I got a Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, but after seeing the Chicago Tribune list of guys on their staff who do (Fred Mitchell, Phil Hersh and Teddy Greenstein, for three) I’m pretty sure that I must have one. Â So I went to the Internets and…
About that extension, Lovie
If it’s over (and it sure feels like it’s over), the Lovie Smith era is going to be remembered for a Super Bowl appearance, a strange, turnover generating defense, a strange turnover generating offense, and three paltry playoff wins in nine seasons. Lovie…
Podcast: Episode 8 – High Fidelity
The Podcast is back, and any attempt at structure is just out of the window at this point. Â We are now just recording as soon as all three of us dopes get on the line. Â So in this episode you end up listening to us talk for a good five minutes about how we ought to…
Deal with it ESPN, the Huskies are out to screw up your New Year
ESPN’s demise is now complete. Over the past two decades, the self anointed Worldwide Leader in Sports has turned SportsCenter into an unwatchable mess, dumbed down its Sunday NFL pregame show into must miss TV, surrounded Karl Ravech with a blathering group…
Todd Ricketts would be great at this
In honor of David Letterman’s 2012 Kennedy Center Honor, here’s one of my all-time favorites. (Part Two after the jump)
Rejected by the MuskBox: Youkilis or Soriano at third? Pick one!
A few weeks ago, I tweeted out that Cubs.com’s Carrie Muskat’s latest MuskBox was full of even dumber questions than normal. Â (It really was.) Â She tweeted back to me that if I thought those were bad, I should have seen the ones she didn’t use. Â I…
Podcast: We’ll do it LIVE!
You might very well be surprised to know that we actually give the topics and format of our podcast some forethought. Imagine how shitty it would be if we didn’t. Well, you don’t need to imagine at all. This time, War2D2 started recording from the…