Prepare to be underwhelmed
When the Cubs brought in their four managerial candidates it really seemed like they had a three in four chance of getting it right. The first candidate was current Phillies bench coach Pete Mackanin. He did a great job as an interim manager for the Reds in 2006…
Jon Stewart on Jerry Sandusky
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Triumph occupies Wall Street
Don’t pretend this isn’t awesome
At least we’re not Browns fans
Brian Urlacher’s still pretty cool
Wash does know some long words
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Relive Theo’s presser
Can’t say I told you so
The Cubs didn’t fire Mike Quade today. Â They actually did it last Friday, and decided to wait until the day after the Jed Hoyer, Jason McLeod bro-hug, press conference to announce it. Â I’d love to tell you I told you so and that I knew Quade was going to…
Theo has a sweet ride
Both the Tribune and the Sun-Times have un-narrated videos of new Cubs President of Everything but Crane, Theo Epstein, walking around the outside of Wrigley Field yesterday. Â This one is fascinating for several reasons. First, Theo often does the fake…
Phildo on Theo, Ryne and Albert
The best thing about the Cubs getting a new general manager is that we can all live through the countless, pointless, “Ryno deserves it!” posts about the Cubs managerial job. Â Granted, there’s somebody in that job, but nobody has ever had any…
Some of you shouldn’t be so excited to see Theo
Now that the deal is official, Cubs fans can get as giddy about their favorite team hiring a real talent to run their baseball operations as they’d like. Make no mistake, that hiring Theo Epstein away from the Red Sox will finally enable the Cubs to start…
Hope Tony gets a ride to the park
Theo talking baseball like a grownup
…and he got to say “Stinky Pinkies” on the air.
Oral history: Cubs hire Theo
After what seemed like an ill-fated two month courtship, the Chicago Cubs have actually hired Theo Epstein away from the Boston Red Sox to become President and General Manager. Â Epstein is one of the highest regarded GMs in the game, which makes his desire to work…
BREAKING: Phil’s still dumb
I spent yesterday actually writing about the Cubs…writing the Cubs season wrap up for our good friend Kevin Kaduk and the Big League Stew Blog at Yahoo! Sports. Â And because of that, I had to halt the urge to rip a particularly awful (and that’s saying…
Create your own Rozner column
Starting today, the Arlington Heights Daily Herald has followed through on their threat and some of their content is now tucked behind a pay wall. Given that everyone had already stopped paying for the actual print version of the paper two years ago, there’s no…
Wait, where’s Carlos?
So, I take a couple of months off and while I’m away, you guys lose Carlos Zambrano? Is this like the time he hid from the MRI machine or the time he had to go to crazy school for a month? Both? Neither? So here’s what I can remember about the night…