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Christmas came early to Sox-hating Cubs fans this year. The Los Angeles Dodgers have just traded Juan Pierre to the Chicago White Sox. If you were here for the Bottom 126, you will recall that my entry on Pierre touched off one of the hottest, one-sided debates in HJE history. Welcome back to Chicago, Juan. May your balls ... Read More

In case you haven't been diligently reading Kap's Corner, Andy Dolan, Chuck, and I are going to be on Sports Central on WGN Radio with David Kaplan tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. In case you've been living under a bridge in Chicago, WGN is on 720 AM in Chicago, or you can always stream the show hereabouts. I'll ... Read More

Boy, oh, boy. How long has it been since old Skip posted a Comment of the Week? Days? Weeks? Months? YEARS!? Mea culpa, ladies and gentlemen. Like a phoenix rising from Joe Altobelli's ashes, I have returned for this week's... Few things make me chuckle more than a commenter who stumbles onto HJE, has ... Read More

So, the Winter Meetings wrapped up in Indianapolis yesterday, and the big move of the week was Jim Hendry dumping Milton Bradley on the- Wait, what? Whaddya mean, "He's still on the team"? If I told Hendry once, I told him a thousand times that I'd rather give up swearing than have Bradley back on this team. ... Read More

If there was one thing that Jim Hendry wanted to accomplish at the Winter Meetings this year, it was to stuff one item from each steam tray in the lunch buffet into his mouth at the same time. If there were two things Jim Hendry wanted to accomplish this year, the first was the buffet thing, but the second ... Read More

The last time we saw our good friend Hitler, he was upset about Kosuke Fukudome, was missing Sammy Sosa, and was looking forward to a 2009 season filled with Kerry Wood saves. The 2009 Winter Meetings begin today in Indianapolis, and Hitler just found out about them. What will happen when Hitler learns what has transpired with the ... Read More

Every time I want to punch Jim Hendry in the fleshiest part of his neck, he has an offseason like this one, in which he has unloaded both terrible Aarons. There's only one thing to do when you're all out of Aarons. Put them in the Fukudome on their way out! At first blush, this might seem ... Read More

Oh, dear. In one offseason, we lose Mark DeRosa, and now folk hero Jake Fox is no longer a Cub! (HT: Luis) For whom will ridiculous Cubs fans blindly root? What will they do? I guess they could just celebrate the fact that Aaron Miles is no longer a Cub, either. One midget middle ... Read More

Yesterday was a glorious day if you're a Cubs fan, a Notre Dame fan, and a fan of Chip Caray getting leprosy. I am all three of those. Charlie Weis' removal as the head football coach at Notre Dame was expected, but Chip Caray's dismissal from TBS was a pleasant surprise (thanks to all who alerted me to ... Read More