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If the Cubs decide to follow my clever plan to sweep the Brewers at Wrigley Field this week, they will have wrapped up their second playoff berth in two years. That hasn't happened since, oh, 1907 and 1908, the only two years in which the Cubs have won the World Series. So, is it really a good time ... Read More

This week's Muskbag is chock full of personal questions, propositions, and SAM FULD. Hurray! Why does Lou Piniella keep using Bob Howry in close situations? Howry has been bad all year. He currently has a 5.54 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP, and he's already given up more home runs than in any other season. -- Red W., New York, N.Y. And now ... Read More

The Braves are rapidly rising up my list of teams I hate. Seriously? After the headhunting bullshit they've been pulling for the last two years Yunel Escobar is going to cry about getting plunked by a guy who throws an 87-m.p.h. fastball? I also noticed those Coca-Cola-loving assholes were awful quick to run out of the dugout ... Read More

I guess my good friend PAUL SULLIVAN must have lost my phone number. He had a perfect opportunity to give his old pal Bad Kermit an opportunity to berate a bunch of dopey Cubs fans, and he wasted it on Ryan Theriot (be sure to check out the post-Mailbag comments; brilliant!). Fortunately, the questions are still hilariously stupid. Ryan, ... Read More

Prepare to have your mind blown. This Muskbag is a Muskbag so astonishingly stupid. So incredibly ridiculous. So offensively bad, you very well may stop rooting for the Cubs. And you would be right to do so. There are, apparently, Cubs fans who inhabit the deepest, darkest, dumbest corners of this world. This one ... Read More

Holy shit, Jay Mariotti. The only time I think about you is when your headlines come across my feed reader. Generally, I just laugh at them. But when I see, "Wood Over Marmol: Cubs Will Regret It" come flying up, Jay, well, I just have to comment. Jay's nonsense is in quotes (generally a good idea ... Read More