WGN’s good at promos
WGN gives good promo and they did a nice job this year with some “testimonial” ads. Here’s a preview of them, and one of these guys is going to change his mind before his real promo airs. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1mKSKgqfs]…
Cubs could use a little trim
Opening day is next Friday (April Fool’s Day, appropriately) and the Cubs are getting to the serious business of figuring out what 25 guys will be on that roster. Granted, the roster that starts the season normally looks nothing like the one that ends it, but…
The most important NCAA pairings
You now have 51 weeks to forget what channel truTV is on your satellite or cable system. If you went to college in 1994-1995 you remember truTV as all OJ Trial, all the time. And in those 16 years since, you hadn’t given it a second thought. Until last…
Lousy teams just wanna have fun?
In the past 12 days I’ve been in eight different states. I finally get home, settle in to see what I’ve been missing and sure enough, I’m greeted by more incomprehensible nonsense from Chicago Tribune national baseball dipshit…I mean expert,…
Leading the league in meetings
After Carlos Silva endeared himself to his teammates by starting a slap fight in the dugout yesterday, the Cubs had a team meeting this morning led by our most beloved cue ball, Mike Quade. Nobody’s quite sure what Quade told the guys, but I’m sure it…
We get it, old people love the Cubs
WGN does a fine job with their season opening promos, and this year’s is…well…it’s not bad, but it doesn’t match teh awesomes of last year. This year’s seems to be a reminder that old people love the Cubs, and even the oldest ones…
Dusty loves him some injured pitchers
It’s been a busy couple of days for Dusty Baker. On Monday he finally decided to tell the epic tale of the day somebody took a dump in the spot where he liked to stand in the home dugout when he managed the Cubs. Who am I to doubt the truthiness of…
Marking their territory
The monumental Ricketts-Yellon sit down is over. Al ran the third part of his largely uninformative, unintentionally hilarious interview on Friday. If you’re wondering why the Cubs would grant somebody like Yellon this access and not a real writer like…
Cubs want to be exempt from amusement
Yesterday Al Yellon ran part one of his three part epic miniseries of pedantism, his interview with a guy he’s pretty sure isn’t the owner of the Cubs, Tom Ricketts. While part one consisted mostly of Al trying to get himself invited to the next…
Wait, who owns the Cubs?
Wednesday on his award-winning Cubs Web site (three-time winner of the Webby for dullest blog ever) Al Yellon posted the first of what he promises (threatens?) will be a three-part interview with Cubs “owner” Tom Ricketts. When it was first pointed out to…
Franchester needs a new act
Our old pal Franchester Martin Brennaman is at it again. Everybody’s favorite tone deaf hack got paid to give a speech at Marshall University in West Virginia over the weekend and he gave the people what they came to hear. It was basically all of…
Throwing batteries
On Friday, I previewed the Cubs position player spots and ranked each of the projected starters in the NL Central at those positions. I know that it was riveting entertainment. Today, let’s take a look at who is left. That’s basically the starting…
Things are rank in the NL Central
Maybe it’s because we had 20 inches of snow dumped on us Wednesday. Maybe it’s because spring training opens in ten days. Or maybe, it’s just because we’re bored (that’s probably it), but instead of just taking a tour around the Cubs…
What year did Juan Bautista lead the league in homers?
Spring training starts two weeks from today, but our old pal Phil Rogers is already in midseason form. Why, in Sunday’s Tribune he managed to make a case you can’t expect Albert Pujols to be able to live on just $14 million a year, he gave Kyle Lohse a…
Cubs finally get it
I’m not what you would call an optimist by nature. I’m also not what you’d call hygenic, but that’s really neither here nor there. But I have got to tell you, recent moves by the Chicago Cubs have got me thinking that as Ron Santo used to…
Boom. Roasted.
Tuesday night some of Tony LaRussa’s friends got together and roasted him for charity. Now that seems like a good idea. Who better than to take pot shots at than a self-important, overrated douche like Tony LaRussa, right? The problem is that when you…
Does this guy look like a quitter?
Ahh, the meatheads are out in full force. They’re all saying that Jay Cutler quit, that he couldn’t handle being down 14-0 in the NFC Championship game so he just started limping around and then took himself out of a game so that his sterling backups…
Mike Martz breaks down NFC Championship Game
Oooh, hey there. Glad you stopped by. I’m just putting the final touches here on the game plan for Sunday’s big game. I really think we’re going to win this game, don’t you? I was just watching some tape on on our offense against Seattle…