In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Smoky Burgess. “Smoky Burgess was fat. Not baseball fat like Mickey Lolich or Early Wynn. But […]
He was “My Sweet Addy”, the puppy-eyed young shortstop we all loved in the IFHouse. There’s a big-eyed dog sitting on my feet that carries his name and a folder full of memes on my computer that haven’t made it to the recycling bin after the 2016 season. Who can forget his contribution to the […]
In this feature, we will help you acquaint yourself with some of the finest practitioners of the most thankless task in baseball to ever don the “tools of ignorance” for our beloved Chicago Baseball teams. This week we feature Barry Foote. In my musings about the Cubs–both internal and out loud–I often view my fandom […]
The Rockies are in a bit of a precarious situation. The contract extension they gave to the face of their franchise (and the 3rd or so best 3B in the NL) has put them in a bit of a payroll pickle. They are committed to paying four of their players a combined $88MM in 2020, […]
I’ve been a Cubs’ fan for just over twenty years – a little unusual considering I’m in my mid-forties, but then baseball wasn’t really a thing where I grew up. These days, I live in the Netherlands, where although baseball is relatively widely played, the dearth of Dutch players in the Major Leagues* shows only […]
Today, a couple Cubs beat writers let it be known that Cubs bullpen coach Lester Strode was given his walking papers. Strode had been with the Cubs for 31 years, and had been the bullpen coach since 2007, having served in that capacity under Lou Piniella, Mike Quade, Dale Sveum, Rick Renteria and Joe Maddon. […]
When you think of what you look for in a backup catcher, you think, “Good hands, maybe his bat gets hot, good with pitchers.” Add a crumb catcher of Swansonian majesty and you’ve got Tim Blackwell. Blackwell broke in with the Red Sox where he had a reputation for being a good defensive catcher, but […]
At some point in every Cubs’ offseason, there are generally two things than happen. One is watching a non-Cubs team celebrate winning the World Series, and the other is wondering what type of season Kyle Schwarber will have the following year. The only time neither of those has happened in the last half decade is […]
Anthony Rizzo won the NL Gold Glove for first basemen. It was the third time Captain Cub has won. Gold Gloves don’t mean shit. The end.
Hey, it’s the offseason. It’s not like there’s news, or important things to talk about. Yet. This is really all Mirriam-Webster’s fault, anyway. I mean, they posted THIS LIST of butt-related words, and expected me to, what, not? Totally unreasonable. Caboose Definition – buttocks Callipygian Definition – having shapely buttocks, “bootylicious” Bumbaste Definition – dialectal, England: to beat on […]