Everything’s coming up Milhouse
Just hours remain until Farmageddon, the seven decade awaited rematch of the 1941 Western Division playoff game between the Acme Packers and the Decatur Staleys is almost upon us. OK, fine, the Packers had dropped the Acme by then and the Bears had been in Chicago for…
Bears-Packers primer
There’s a new site out there on the Interwebs called Youtube and you should check it out. It’s where I found this video which gives you a history of the Bears-Packers rivalry in a neat and tidy five minutes. The best part? They just focus on the…
Most inspirational Make-A-Wish ever
From America’s finest sports source, comes the inspirational story of a girl who just wanted one last chance to see Mets’ third baseman David Wright play. Onion SportsDome
Al Yellon: Reporumnist
I know there are some of you who don’t like it when I waste valuable bandwidth picking the nits of off Al Yellon but the steamer he produced today deserves…no…demands to be ripped into tiny little pieces. So if this isn’t your cup of tea, I…
Why do the media insist we not like Jay or Lovie?
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but on Sunday the Bears will play the Green Bay Packers for the right to go to the Super Bowl in Dallas in a couple of weeks. I really wish I could enjoy this, because it would seem pretty cool, you know, playing your arch…
See ya, mope
After trading away three prospects, a ten year minor league catcher and Sam Fuld to get Matt Garza, the Cubs restocked their farm system today by trading mopey, turdish, Tom Gorzelanny to the Washington Nationals for three middling prospects. Is it really restocking…
Off his Gord
Friday night we celebrated the first night of the poorest attended Cubs Convention in 20 years with our annual Desipio – Hire Jim Essian drunkfest at Shitty O’Keas at the Hilton and Towers. The usual gang of miscreants showed up and, as in years past, some…
Cubs cook up new ticket plans
The Cubs released information today on new ticket options, including a 13-game ticket plan that includes tickets to one home game each against the Yankees, White Sox and Cardinals. Then you pick the next ten out of an assortment that includes less attractive games…
Cubs add to all-nuthouse rotation
Today, the Cubs struck a blow for freedom of the press (or something.)Â It was just three days ago that the pigment challenged beat writer of the Sun Times stuck his little pencil neck out and declared the Cubs the front runner to acquire the talented, but batshit…
Cubs Convention Preview
Next Friday a throng of like minded dipshits will descend up on an overpriced hotel and convention center near downtown Chicago. Despite evidence to the contrary (and lots of it) they will delude themselves into thinking that this year things will be different. …
Cub HOF snubs continue
Even though (SPOILER ALERT) Ron Santo is dead, it doesn’t mean that the day the Hall of Fame votes are counted isn’t still painful for living, great, former Cubs. Today, the baseball writers voted to induct two players into the crummy little snobatorium…
We like Kerry because he gives a shit
There’s really no such thing as a rational fan. By definition you’re a “fanatic” and in practice you have made a conscious decision to devote a wildly disproportionate amount of your own time to become emotionally invested in things other…
As good as it gets
Today was Ron Santo’s funeral, and three men gave eulogies to Ron, and Pat Hughes, his longtime broadcast partner went last, and honestly, they just don’t get any better than this.
Best .196 hitter money can buy
It was made clear to all of us that the Cubs did not have a lot of money to spend this offseason, and that they weren’t going to be trading prospects to get players. So the chance to get any kind of meaningful player to add to the roster was pretty slim. So if…
The Hendry Postulates
The Baseball Winter Meetings start today in Orlando, Florida and rumors will fly, deals will be made, and frantic phone calls will be placed to double check that “pay per view movie titles really don’t appear on the bill, right?” What you might not…
So long, Big Boy
The toughest man ever to play for the Chicago Cubs is gone. After a 50 year fight with diabetes, a Hall of Fame worthy playing career, and an interesting and mostly entertaining two decade stint in the Cubs’ radio booth, Ron Santo is dead at the age of 70. I…
Open letter to Cardinals Nation
Dear mouthbreathing hillbillies of the world, I want to congratulate you on your favorite baseball team’s recent acquisition of Ryan Theriot to play…(pardon me while I try not to laugh and urinate at the same time)…shortstop for you next season….
A musky Winter Meeting Preview
The Baseball Winter Meetings are being held next week in the very place that I got married just four short years ago. No, they’re not being held in the rumpus room at Del Boca Vista, but rather at the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando….