HIRED Mike Quade!
It’s official. The Chicago Cubs have HIRED our man Mike Quade as the manager of the Chicago Cubs. Today was a triumph for the little man. The non-baseball All-Star who worked his way up through the minors, who spent 17 years riding buses and scrubbing Randy…
Fisted Foul Live! NLCS Game Three
Game three of the NLCS is conveniently being played today at 3 pm Central time and many of us are going to be stuck at work without any way of watching it. (Except for on TV, or the Web, or listening to it, or watching a Gamecast or…oh, shut up, you know what…
Rick Morrissey is still a clueless asshat
For those of you who were still wondering, Rick Morrissey is still an idiot. I can’t imagine too many of you were actually wondering, but if you were, I’m happy to provide the confirmation you need. Yesterday, Morrissey continued the demise of the daily…
Hire Mike Quade
The Cubs 8-3 win over Houston on the second to last day of the season gave them their first series win (in six tries) against the hapless Astros. It also pushed the Cubs record under interim manager Mike Quade to an impressive 24-12, and that includes an absurd 17-4…
Are the Cubs better after the fire sale?
At and around the trade deadline the Cubs, wallowing in fifth place, traded away their best starting pitcher, their opening day shortstop, a second baseman, their All-Star first baseman and their manager retired because frankly, going home to a sick mother was a more…
Big Z is kicking ass and confusing the Cubs
For any other team, this development would be manna from Heaven. An overpriced, overemotional pitcher who the team had completely written off has turned himself back into one of the best pitchers in the National League with a stretch run that has taken his trade…
Mike Quade Fan Club gets the good news
Exclusive footage of the reaction of the Official Mike Quade Fan Club hearing the news that he would be named interim manager of the Cubs. The tension builds as Jim Hendry announces the ten candidates for the interim job, and the guy who looks like Geovany Soto gets a…
I hate them now more than ever
So Lou Piniella called it a career yesterday. After 48 years as a player, general manager and manager, he took off his uniform for the last time and headed home to Tampa to take care of his mother. I’m sure a lot of people don’t believe that’s…
At least Derrek won’t have to limp too far
A month after professing his undying love for the Cubs and refusing to forsake them for a team with a chance at the pennant, Derrek Lee agreed to be traded to the Atlanta Braves. Presumably he had to sign the agreement while lying face down on a massage table,…
So long, dummy
Now that Ryan Theriot is mercifully on somebody else’s team, we can take a moment to remember a time when he wasn’t a terrible fielding, addle-brained baserunning, wiffle bat carrying douchebag. We can take a minute to remember when he bailed out the 2007…
Lou’s leaving, and I hope you assholes are happy
The worst kept secret in baseball (I mean other than tHom Brennaman’s toupee) was let out of the bag today when the Cubs announced that Lou Piniella was going to pack it in at the end of this horrendous season. Lou’s agent let the news out today, which…
Thankgiving with the Ricketts(es)
Tomorrow is a favored holiday in much of America. Who can’t get behind the idea of sitting around and eating like a pig, watching football and listening to the women in your family tear through the sale ads in that day’s newspaper like Charlie Weis trying…
Lace up your ‘Roos and let’s run up a hill
There’s a little ritual in the Dolan household just before the start of every Bears season. We sit down and we watch the unbelievably good piece that NFL Films did about the greatest Bear of all time. Pure Payton is a 45 minute Walter Payton Splooge-fest and…
Devin Hester Splooge-o-rama
Because his 2008 returns were lackluster, you almost forget how unbelievable he was in 2006 and 2007. Hey, I said almost. What follows is ten minutes of pure bonertime. Well, except for the Pro Bowl one, I mean, it’s the Pro Bowl. Who cares?…
Cubs Live – White Sox at Cubs, 7 p.m.
Pitching matchup: Sox: John Danks, 4-5, 4.81 ERA Cubs: Carlos Zambrano, 4-2, 3.39 ERA Carlos and Ozzie are doing commercials together. I don’t think this needs any explanation. [Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vs1BXcR-ww&feature=player_embedded]…
Cubs Live! – Dodgers at Cubs, 7 p.m.
It’s been a while so I thought I’d give you all fair notice that we’re doing a Cubs Live gamecast tonight for the Dodgers-Cubs at 7 p.m.
You’ve been banned
Apparently, people who frequent this site aren’t the only ones who aren’t allowed to post elsewhere. An overseas Cubs fan got some disturbing news. And frankly, he didn’t handle it as well as you might think. And no, he doesn’t actually have a…
Cubs Live — Cubs at Snakes, 8:30pm
Pitching Matchup Cubs – Carlos Zambrano (1-1, 4.85 ERA) Snakes – Smiley Little (0-1, 6.00 ERA)