It’s pretty clear that the Ricketts family, who own the Cubs, look upon Fenway Sports Group as something of an idol. They took their GM from Boston and made him the president of the Cubs. You know him as Theo Epstein. They have remade Wrigley Field and the neighborhood around it in the same fashion […]
I wouldn’t pretend to not have a personal connection in order to Javier Báez, who is signing with the Detroit Tigers at some point today for six years, $140 million. He’s always been the most interesting player to be able to watch first on the Cubs, back when I cared a lot, and in baseball […]
It started before Kris Bryant was called up. Fuck, it probably started the day Anthony Rizzo signed his extension. This was the day the Cubs told everyone they dreaded, but secretly couldn’t wait for. Read more…
It’s probably a story that you’ve heard a million times by now if you have any sports leanings, but it needs emphasizing. In the spring of 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks were the center of Chicago. Not just Chicago sports, but Chicago. It was a meteoric and shocking rise, simply because three years before that, most […]
It had been one of the few Mets offseasons with a glow. A new owner who, at least at the moment, wants to run the team like it should be run. The acquisition of possibly the most fun player in the league in Francisco Lindor. But this is the Mets, and stepping on a rake […]
Anything you or I might think or understand, the Steelers will retire Ben Roethlisberger’s No. 7 day, and possibly even 1 day soon. We can not win. He will be honored by possibly the very slovenly and up-its-own-ass fanbase in Western sport, he will probably receive a TV gig when he needs one (the truth […]
All of us knew that it was coming, but viewing that the Cubs set out a media release this morning stating Theo Epstein was stepping down from his function as omniscient President and leader of Baseball Ops was jarring. For the previous nine decades, Cubs fans have connected into Epstein their wildest fantasies and dreams. […]
{Maybe the news is not that Theo Epstein is straight from his position of President of Baseball Operations of the Cubs, however {} is stepping aside and handing power to another man in line. |} Want more of that nowadays. Read…