Rejected by the Muskbox
Last week I tweeted that the quality of the questions Carrie Muskat had to answer in her Cubs.com “Inbox” feature were the worst ever. She replied that “you should see the ones that don’t make it.” Â So I told her if she’d send the…
Podcast: Blame it on the rain
So far we’ve actually stuck to our quasi-monthly podcast schedule and we jammed another one into the can (huh?). Â Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath gave us similar bandwidth issues to everybody else in the non flooded part of the United States, and we actually…
Podcast: Gravy on it
The fourth edition of the runaway, Internet smash hit podcast, The Other 15% unearths a doozy of a Dusty Baker e-book, a great oral history of Cheers, and a reminder that Warren and Kerm are terrible at predictions, but I’m awesome. Â The cheap shots at Al and…
Matt Holliday — still dirty
Apparently the Cardinals and Giants played game two of the NLCS last night. Â I wouldn’t know because Cardinals games are not broadcast where I live. Even when I move. But in that alleged game, Matt Holliday allegedly took out Marco Scutaro on a throw at second…
The Reds put their World Series dreams on hold for two more years
It’s so cute how the Cincinnati Reds think they’re close to winning a pennant. Â Sure, they’ve won the NL Central in two of the last three years, and yes, they have a great player at first base in Joey Votto and a couple of really good starting…
Podcast: Playoff preview and Adam Greenbergapalooza
The Podcast is now on its (supposedly) regular schedule of every other week, and so we preview the playoffs, I tell a story about Phil Regan’s ball sack, Kermit details his Twitter Adam Greenberg friend stalker and war2d2 wonders aloud how he ever got mixed up…
Podcast: Episode Two, And They Said It Wouldn’t Last
Just in case you thought it was a one-time thing, we turned it into a two-time thing and so another week, another podcast with @hirejimessian and @war2d2. Â This week we hit all of the really important topics like why can’t the goddamned Tigers keep the White…
The podcast came back? Why?
You rarely asked for it, and we gave it to you anyway. Â We added a podcast producer, and let him do a lot of the talking, and after just a brief three year hiatus, Kerm and I have brought the Podcast back. Â When the ITunes RSS feed is up we’ll let you know so…
Dodgers tribute to Vin Scullly
As an unabashed Cubs fan, and loather of all…most…things Dodger (especially Ken Landreaux), it may surprise you that I love Vin Scully. Â He’s the best, by such a long way that there is no number two. Â The Dodgers had an awesome bobblehead night for…
This is just the kind of stuff we miss
Now that the 90th greatest Cub of all-time is off to Texas, look at the hilarity we are missing: I love MLB Network, but if someone would invent a Kevin Millar filter that would change the channel whenever he’s about to come on, they’d make a billion…
Dempster’s full-page ad
Predictably, on his way out to Texas (where he proved his value by allowing 8 earned runs in 4 1/3 IP last night), Ryan Dempster took the time to take out a full page ad in one of the local papers. Â Much to the chagrin of Sun-Times hack Gordon Wittenmyer (who gets a…
A Desipio oral history of the Ryan Dempster trade
Ryan Dempster, Cubs pitcher 2004-2012 I said all along that all I wanted to do was help the Cubs, and if I could help them by being traded to a contender for some supergreat prospects, then I was happy to do it. Â Theo [Epstein, Cubs President of Baseball Operations]…
They don’t did a trade
Twitter is a pretty great place, and these are the salad days. In the past three days I’ve gotten into a Twitter argument with my old nemesis @jacquejones11 (here), I predicted to the second when Chip Caray (@kapaya1234 – here) would Twitter ban me, and…
My side of the story — by Ryan Dempster
Hello again, everybody, it’s your old friend Harry Caray here to talk to you about a really important subject…drinking Budweiser! Nah, just kidding, it’s your old pal Demps. Â How’s it going? Â Had you going there didn’t I? Â I…
The reason Dempster refused to sign off on any trades this week
This is the kind of shit that we’re really going to miss when funnyman righthander Ryan Dempster is walking seven guys in three and a third in a playoff game this fall. Dempster’s been a durable pitcher for the Cubs, though several of his seasons have…
LOL Cubs — with special appearance by Jay Cutler
Big Z might be the best reason to watch The Franchise
Showtime starts year two of “The Franchise” tonight and this year the focus is on Ozzie Guillen, Carlos Zambrano and the rest of the shitstorm that is the 2012 Miami Marlins of Florida. Carlos is one of my all-time favorite players, and Showtime was wise…
Let’s break down five minutes of 1991 Cubs highlights!
Check out this video from 1991 from the night Andre Dawson lost his shit at Joe West and threw half the bats in the bat rack onto the field. Â It’s just all kinds of awesomeness, when you consider who is in it: A completely in her prime Alison Payne starts…