Movie Review: 100 Years of Wrigley Field

Feb 4, 2014 | Cubs, Media Hacks

One of the perks of being a big time journalist like myself is that you get exclusive access to things that mere mortals don’t.  I’m used to it, so I was unimpressed when the Cubs asked me to be one of the first to review their new movie “100 Years...

Phil Rogers wants to do away with outdated things

Mar 22, 2013 | Cubs, Media Hacks

Several times per week (hell, twice a day, sometimes) baseball dumbass Phil Rogers writes mind-numbingly dumb things that he deserves to be ridiculed for.  So just how dumb must something he writes be, to have him be completely self-aware about how dumb it is?...

Todd says it fits

Nov 19, 2010 | Cubs

At a hastily thrown together press conference in the left field women’s bathroom at Wrigley Field that Todd Ricketts has dubbed “The Throne Room” the assembled media horde (me, the StreetWise guy and of course, George Castle), Todd refuted the idea...

Everything’s for sale

Nov 15, 2010 | Cubs, Media Hacks

I’m not going to pretend to be angered by the Cubs’ decision to paint the Wrigley Field marquee purple for this weekend’s epic tilt between a couple of middle of the road Big Ten football teams. I will say that it looks dumb, and that Northwestern...

Crane sucks at this

Nov 11, 2010 | Cubs

Remember back when the Rickettses took control of the team and we all just couldn’t wait for them to shitcan their Vice President for Douchebaggery and Asshattery, Crane Kenney?  Yeah, well they never actually did that.  Instead, they put Crane in charge of...