Magic Number Countdown: 11
11 more wins. That’s all the Cubs need to collect to make the unthinkable thinkable and to set off what will be the most ridiculous party in the history of the city of Chicago. You know HJE has a plan to count this down in style. Below are my top eleven moments [...]
Who Wants to Win the NL Central?
Seriously? Is this how it’s going to be in September? I was in the midst of a party to appease J-Kerm on Saturday. When I turned off the Cubs game, they had a very comfortable 9-1 lead. Ned Ryerson on Sunday told me that the final of the game was 14-9. [...]
Ned Yost Should Be Indicted
With Dusty Baker in town with his old familiar dumbassery and excuse-making in tow, it’s easy to think he is the stupidest manager in the National League Central, and he very well may be. But Ned Yost is sure making it interesting, isn’t he? Yost’s handling of CC Sabathia in Sabathia’s nine starts [...]
People Who Don’t Agree with Me are Idiots, Round 128: The Hall of Fame Game
If it wasn’t funny enough that some people were actually in an uproar that Sweet Uncle Lou wasn’t thrilled about dragging his best-in-baseball team to a small town in New York to play a meaningless game for no good reason, then it just got funnier. There is at least one person on this planet [...]
Mark Prior, You Are Ridiculous
As if a 7-0 homestand, an MLB-best 36-21 record, and an upcoming road trip against the hapless San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers aren’t reason enough for a Cubs fan to be damn near giddy about the 2008 season, the good news keeps rolling in. When Jim Hendry refused to give Mark Prior [...]
Friday Night Fukudome: Jim Edmonds vs. The Edmund Fitzgerald
His legend lives on from St. Louis on down,
Though he liked to have sex with a collie.
The Padres had said, “His career isn’t dead,
“He can play center field, though it’s roomy.”
Before trades they could explore, he struck out twenty-four,
Times, and his power numbers were empty.
With his dog, he got nude, ‘cuz cats are such prudes,
Though [...]
Quick, Which Two Ex-Cubs Would You Most Like to Hear From?
Did you answer Michael Barrett and Mark Prior? Then I have a treat for you! The Cubs took on the Padres on Easter Sunday. There were notable ex-Cubs on the Padres roster, including Future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. Hell, even the likable former Cub Glendon Rusch is a non-roster invitee [...]
Yo, Jim! I Got Your “Two Significant Moves” Right Here!
[Gestures toward balls]
Nah, I’m just messing with you, Jim. Lou has balls enough for the whole team. Really, though, I’m going to freak you out with this one. Forget Erik Bedard. Forget him. I figured out how you can end your offseason as the top team in the National League [...]
T79 #67: Trevor “Don’t Hassle the” Hoffman
MLB’s all-time saves leader has dominated a lot of teams throughout the course of his Hall of Fame career. But few teams quake in fear more when the hear the ominous toning of Hell’s Bells, which is why Trevor Hoffman checks in at #67 on the Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time. [...]
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