You do understand what rebuilding means, right?
Cubs fans take a lot of shit, and most of it is undeserved. I said “most” of it is undeserved. Â If the way many Cubs fans (not us, of course…we’re the brightest of a largely dull bunch) are reacting to the realities of watching a rebuilding…
Phildo’s power wankings
Power rankings go back to the days of JG Taylor Spink (not really) and I was being paid to half-ass them 15 years ago (really) for various sites. Â One thing about them has never changed. Â They’re pointless. Â They’re an easy way to churn out a column…
Now we’re lousy with Cubs ads
As opening day got closer we were suddenly inundated with ads featuring the Cubs. Â Nothing moves product quite like a team that will be lucky to avoid losing 90+ games again. It started with this ad from MLB The Show 12 featuring what it will look like (assuming we…
Opening day without the old man
My  nephew, my brother and I were looking for a pin for dad to wear on the lapel of his suit.  There were plenty to pick from, he had Cubs pins and lots of Notre Dame pins.  He had some on his Cubs hat, some on his Notre Dame hat and a bunch more in a drawer that…
WGN America might never come back to DirecTV
Yesterday, on April Fools’ Day, no less, DirecTV subscribers all over the country woke up to a message on their TV that DirecTV and Tribune Company had not come to a new carriage agreement and as a result 23 Tribune owned local affiliates, and WGN America are no…
Meet the Cubs Pitchers!
Yesterday we took a tour of the Cubs position players as we head into the 2012 season. Â It wasn’t a pretty sight. Â It was like coming up on a motorcycle accident and realizing that the driver wasn’t wearing a helmet or pants. Today, we hold our nose and…
The Genius goes to work
Major League Baseball has officially hired recently retired Tony LaRussa as a “special advisor.” Â LaRussa will be paid $2.5 million to handle “special projects” and will not have to hang out in the New York MLB offices. Pretty amazing that the…
Meet the Cubs!
Cubs functionally illiterate manager Dale Sveum has narrowed his 25 man roster down to 28 or so (nobody’s sure how high Dale can count), and it’s a sight to behold. Â An outfield of four washed up guys and the plodding Joe Mather, an infield that’s…
Geo’s a little sensitive about his weight
The Cubs 30 Clubs in 30 Days is a gift that keeps on giving. Â First we had Ryan Dempster going all assclown and doing his horrendous Harry Caray impersonation, then we got Starlin Castro trying to explain how he’s going to fix his fielding by actually looking…
Breaking: Starlin Castro to host Baseball Bunch
I love the fact that Starlin is doing interviews in English now. Â I can’t imagine trying to do that in a foreign language. Â But this segment with Harold Reynolds, between Starlin’s broken English and the fact that his “before” and…
I hope Ryan Dempster is killed by a meteor
Seriously, what is wrong with this asshole? Won’t anyone tell him that he’s not funny, that his Harry Caray impression isn’t actually of Harry, but Will Ferrell doing Harry…poorly? On the surface, Ryan Dempster should be likable.  He seems…
Bunt outrage AAARRRRGGGHHHH!
There are two things I can’t quite understand about the Cubs bunting tournament. 1) The media’s fascination with tweeting out round by round results. Two years ago, most of these guys (and Carrie) acted like Twitter was way too complicated for them to ever…
So this is what it’s gonna look like?
I know that High Heat and MVP Baseball 2005 get a lot of love as the greatest video baseball games ever, and I loved them both, and RBI Baseball, of course. Â But the gold standard has to be The Show now. I’m a mostly grown man and my wife will occasionally hear…
Soriano’s leading off? Phil loves it, and make-believe!
When Dale Sveum wrote out his intersquad lineup and had Alfonso Soriano listed as his leadoff hitter, I was impressed. Â I had no idea Sveum could spell anything with more than one syllable. Â When he did it again for the Cacti League opener, I was intrigued. Â When I…
What if the Braun conspiracy was for him, not against him?
On Thursday, Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun beat the rap. Â After flunking a drug test during last year’s playoffs and getting caught red faced (especially around his upper lip), he managed to skip out on a mandatory 50 game suspension, because some dumb ass…
Pictures and catchers report
The Cubs have started spring training, so winter is officially over. Â To celebrate, I burned all of my winter coats and threw my shovel onto my neighbor’s roof. Â Those kinds of traditions never get old. When they allow him to use his actual camera, and not…
Not every video montage is inspiring
Friday night I posted a really well-done video tribute to the 1989 Cubs put together by longtime (well, before he died) WGN-TV producer Arne Harris. Â It used the song “Keeping the Dream Alive” by your favorite German pop band Munchener Freiheit and had a…
Keeping the dream alive
The 2012 Cubs are unique, not in that they’re going to be bad, but because they’re actually designed to be that way. Â Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are trying to turn the whole damned franchise around and it’s going to take some time. Â So this…