Cubs christen the “House that ‘Roids Built” in first step to replace Wrigley

Don’t think for a moment that it is an attempt at nostalgia or coincidence that the Chicago Cubs were chosen to open the new Yankee Stadium during an exhibition game on Friday night. Bud Selig and his cronies are making their first attempt to help current and future Cubs ownership introduce the idea that replacing […]

Dolfantasy Football, Drunkenness, and the State of Cubs Fans

Once I spent the entire content of the Fantasy Football Commissioner’s State-of-the-League address making fun of tha Don’s “Super-Duper Horses Ass Award” that I awarded him a few weeks ago. See, Tha Don was too engrossed in attending a Cubs’ game in Milwaukee that was moved from Houston due to Hurricane Ike. We all have read his wonderfully rich prose on that experience. But I called him one night, and maybe I should have reminded him that the hurricane might screw up some NFL scheduling, but tha Don was not able to update his roster that week and ended up losing …to a girl … by 2 points … as he started the Texans’ DeMeco Ryans, who was awarded a BYE after the Texans’ game was postponed due to the hurricane.

Cubdom in Need of a Raze

“To P.K. Wrigley and the World’s Championship yet to come.”
- Dedication in the 1946 book The Chicago Cubs, by Warren Brown
 
As a 13-year old I can recall sitting in seventh grade math class, daydreaming like any misanthropic pubescent teen should during pre-algebra. The Cubs had just dropped the last three games of the National […]

Payback for ‘69?

The Cubs theme song for Wednesday night: 

Defeat the Mets, deplete the Mets,
Step right up and beat the Mets.
Hide your kiddies, hide your wife,
Guaranteed to have a letdown tonight.
Because the Mets are really suckin’ it up,
Letting those Brewers catch right up.
Play-offs, Play-offs, not this year in this town,
Delete the M-E-T-S Mets, keep Flushing down.
Oh, the Cubbies […]

This Cubs Fan’s New Motto: I Like Ike

I cannot claim that my sports life has not been full of fortunate circumstances. These include:

Working summers at Wrigley Field as a sportswriter
Attending Game 2 of the 2003 NLCS
Attending the clinching game of the NL West by the Atlanta Braves in 1991
Attending the final day game before the Cubs broke tradition with their first night […]