After being completely quiet in the offseason the Cubs have finally started to make some moves to restructure their bullpen leading into spring training. Last Friday hours before the 2020 Cubs Convention kicked off for the weekend. the Cubs worked out a deal with the Dodgers in which the Cubs acquired right-handed pitcher Casey Sadler, […]
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Pay No Attention to Rules I-IV
The last day of the annual MLB winter meetings is generally filled with all the excitement of a Sunday morning at a frat house after a killer bash. The first three days were filled with all sorts of fireworks as record-setting contracts for Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole, and Anthony Rendon we announced on each day. […]
Why Wheeler ?
Forgive me if I don’t understand the hype and disappointment at missing out on Zachery Wheeler. This isn’t Manny 2.0 or season 2 of True Detective. Ya Rick and co. out bid Philly but there are always going to be extenuating circumstances. Family in this case and as I saw on twitter when you factor in the […]
Shitty Cubs Games: June 28th, 2002
This edition of Shitty Cubs Games I’ve Attended does not involve a trip to Clark & Addison, but rather, 10 stops south on the red line at Sox Park (I have no idea if Comiskey Park had been re-branded as US Cellular Field by 2002 and I don’t care enough to look it up). Heading […]
CANNONBALL! Sox make big splash, signing All-Star catcher Yasmani Grandal
White Sox fans have been poking the front office with a metaphorical stick since the day the World Series ended to do something to improve a team that just finished its 7th consecutive losing season. They started the offseason by retaining the services of Jose Abreu, and today, GM Rick Hahn put down his churros […]
CATCHER OF THE WEEK: Barry Foote
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 […]
FROM THE HOME OFFICE: Hot Stove & Dibs Chairs
The names on the 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot were released, and the one new name of local interest is former White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko. Which led to this gem: If Phildo has blocked you, he basically said Konerko is unfairly rated by WAR, and he’s the same basic hitter as Edgar […]
You’re still here? It’s over, go home… go. 2020 pitching
A look back before we see what the future holds, or saves. The 2005 White Sox starting pitchers were exactly what they needed to be to win a World Series. Wait, what that’s not exactly high praise. But I think it is, they were a combined 72-42 (for those of you not math majors) that’s […]
Shitty Cubs’ games: 05/30/2011 vs Astros
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 […]
What a Card! Soup strainers, flavor savers, and lip rugs.
November. The writing community is all abuzz with National Novel Writing Month. The incel crowd is going their own way through their weird masturbation fast. Most of us will eat entirely too much slightly overcooked poultry and pass out in front of a football game a couple of Thursdays from now. November is also “Movember”, […]