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In case you missed Dolan, Chuck, and I on the radio Monday night, Dave Kaplan's crack staff of podcast makers has posted the entire show on his site. The direct link to Part One is HERE. Part Two is HERE. ... Read More

As many of you heard last night, Dolan, Chuck, and I made our radio debut on David Kaplan's Sports Central show on WGN 720. If you missed it, and you want to hear the whole thing, thanks to C-C-Cats, it can be found HERE. First, many thanks to David Kaplan. Considering the grief he has taken from ... 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

We live in an unstable world. Each day, we walk out our front doors not knowing what the day has in store for us. Will our car die on the way to work? We will make it to work without avoiding an accident? If we make it to work safely, will our job still be there? ... 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

I'm going to go ahead and give Carrie some credit. She may pick ludicrous questions to answer. She may pick decent questions and completely fail to answer them. And she might get her facts wrong sometimes. But at least she doesn't make stuff up, which makes her a better journalist than Burnt Sienna and Playgirl. ... Read More

David Kaplan is giving away free Lou Malnati's pizzas to the two people who submit the best question for either Ryan Theriot or Jim Hendry via Twitter. So, if you like free pizza or subtly mocking Cubs personnel, submit a question. I've already submitted, "They'll be on at the same time? Ask Hendry if he'd trade Theriot to ... Read More

Laugh it up, assholes. Just because I pass on grass doesn't mean you dorks aren't still dorks. There are lots of good things in this Roundup thanks, in part, to your tips. But mostly in part to me. Seriously, thanks for all the great tips. Keep them coming. Almost all of them were things ... Read More

In case you haven't noticed, David Kaplan has gradually been changing color from pasty white to Oompa Loompa. I can only imagine the change is for one of the following reasons: The Caucasian race has officially kicked him out. He's so dumb, his skin doesn't even realize he's white. He's going on a hunting trip with the Monsters in the Morning this ... Read More