Hire Jim Essian

You'd think Lou would be busy celebrating his National League Manager of the Year Award this week. Not true. I guess when you win three of them, they don't mean much.� Instead, Lou has spent his week demanding that Jim Hendry give him a better roster to work with. That's why Lou isn't here and Bad Kermit called me, Jim ... Read More

You know, this week's Muskbag doesn't HAVE to be boring. It can have action, fun, and intrigue, if we really want it to. Hey, let's make a movie out of it. INT.--DAY--CARRIE MUSKAT'S OFFICE CARRIE MUSKAT, a matronly woman anywhere from sixty- to eighty-years-old sits behind her desk, a warped folding table. ED HARTIG sits in a large birdcage ... Read More

In which we exhaustively and ill-advisedly plow through the free agent list and predict where some of the bigger names (and Paul Bako) will end up. Click HERE for the homepage. Click HERE to subscribe to iTunes. Click HERE to download. Or just click on that big old green button to listen. ... Read More

That was inevitable, wasn't it? It's still good to see the voters recognize Geovany Soto's year, considering how terrific it was. Congratulations to the best Cubs catcher of my lifetime. ... Read More

Jeff Conine has been beating up on the Cubs since before you were born. At least if you're in high school. Conine's seventeen-year career was marked by consistency. You were pretty safe counting on Conine for about a .285/.350/.450 line throughout the course of his career. Unless, of course, he was playing the Cubs. In ... Read More

Shockingly, it appears that the Cubs are somehow the frontrunner in the Jake Peavy sweepstakes. If Jim Hendry pulls this trade off, he will have traded for Rich Harden and Peavy, two of the best pitchers in the game, over the course of about four months. And he will have done it with a farm system that stinks ... Read More

I was hoping Bacon and Fries would run on the same ticket. The same delicious ticket. Thanks to Holy Taco for the picture. Anyhow, it's Roundup time: Bud Selig is a cockbag, and I hope Mark Cuban sues him and the courts threaten to take away Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption. I'm actually for coin flips deciding the playoffs, ... Read More

Don�t worry, this is not a partisan entry. Kerm is downright painfully neutral, and my baby-killing, Communist ways are typically confined to the ShoutBox, where the rhetorical battle of ideologies is hashed out daily with greedy, heartless gubment-hatin� Morpheus, Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance, Section 242 and St. Patrick trading volleys with tree-huggin� flag-hatin� hippies Forklift, Thrillho, Oleg and yours truly on the ... Read More

There's nothing quite like armchair G.M.s to get you fired up for the Winter Meetings. In this week's Muskbag, a bunch of Cubs fans and Carrie Muskat play G.M. and do what they can to ruin the Cubs. As an added bonus, a commenter LOSES HIS MIND. Looking at the stats, Lee's power numbers and run production are declining. ... Read More

I didn't realize it was possible to rip off a parody of your own work, but some how Al Yellon has managed to do just that. A loyal Son of Jim Essian and former reader of the Boring Cubs Blog pointed out that Yellon has taken it upon himself to recreate the B126 using G-rated language. The B126 ... Read More