The Hindenburg. The Titanic. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge. This weekend, the much-anticipated and much-ballyhooed Marquee Network debuts. This is of relevance to the less than 50% of Chicago area homes that don’t subscribe to Comcast. While the Ricketts family (and presumably, Cubs’ Baseball Operations) have been planning this launch for years, they never thought to […]
This weekend is the much-anticipated Cubs Convention. I mean, it’s anticipated by your average bologna-munching cretin or guy who’s one Quarter Pounder away from The Big One chasing dudes less than half his age for autographs. The Ricketts family wisely decided to stay as far from this as possible – considering their offseason rigor mortis […]
Last week, it was widely reported that Kris Bryant’s (and, by extension, Scott Boras’) grievance against the Chicago Cubs was heard by a moderator. In case you forgot or didn’t care, the grievance is that in 2015 the Cubs intentionally manipulated Bryant’s service time by sending him to Iowa to “work on his fielding” so […]