Hire Jim Essian

At long last, Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer are officially official, and you can stop worrying that the Cubs would discover some way to screw up their hiring. The MLB can also stop worrying that the "contentious negotiations" between the Cubs and the Red Sox was distracting everyone from watching the World Series. This is how stupid Bud ... Read More

Folks, we have reached a new low, even by Muskbox standards. Someone actually took the time to write in and complain about Starlin Castro. Starlin is currently sporting an excellent .328/.386/.469 line. As Dolan recently pointed out, he has reached base at least once in every single game he's played. All seventeen of them. He ... Read More

So, there's been a lot of derision of Joe West from the media and people who have blogs over the fact that he thinks the AL East games are way too slow.� I get it from the media guys, because most of them don't watch the games anyways.� And most of the blog writers have nothing else going on.� I ... Read More

For some reason, our good friend PAUL SULLIVAN has been taking an awful beating lately from some blogs you probably don't read. I don't like it. I don't care if you think it's because I've shared a beer with Paul. I don't care if you think you can beat up me and Paul in a steel cage ... Read More

No, not really. It's just our old pal David Kaplan at it again! Russ Kelly pointed out Kaplan's latest Cubs fix entitled, "The Cubs Need to Sign the #1 Free Agent This Winter." Hey, give Kaplan some credit for the headline. There isn't a single exclamation point in the entire thing. Sorry about the infrequency ... Read More

Of all the melodramatic reactionary stupidity that swept across the media over Kevin Gregg's back-to-back blown saves on Saturday and Sunday (I'm looking at you, Marc Silverman, you couch-slapping, walking panic attack), David Kaplan's reaction was, predictably, the worst. The worst thing to come of the weekend series loss to the Marlins was clearly the fact that it inspired ... Read More

Well, gang, it's been yet another great week of comments. I don't know if you guys are trying to win an award or if it's just happenstance, but you have REALLY stepped up your game. I'm standing at the top step of the dugout applauding you all right now. I was awful tempted to choose Denton's comment ... Read More

It's bad enough when the only people who are sucking the enjoyment out of the Cubs for me are other idiotic Cub fans, but now I can't help but get sucked in to the cesspool of unexamined mental unhealthiness that is Sox Nation? First there was Mark Buerhle's perfect game, which deserves acclaim, naturally. But then the Manolantern poses an ... Read More

T.J. Brown was kind enough to let me know that David Kaplan took it upon himself to "call me out" by pseudonym in whatever his night show is called on Wednesday. As usual, Kaplan was railing on Alfonso Soriano and was apparently mad at a comment on made on his latest post. What's that, you say? You ... Read More

One of the more annoying aspects of blogging about the Cubs is getting e-mails from people trying to plug their obnoxious Cubs crap, particularly when they try to pretend that they've actually read HJE in the past. I think if one spent more than two minutes on the site, one would be aware that tacky Cubs sentimentality doesn't fly ... Read More