They went 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles, and the train kept-a-rollin’.
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"I swear, [Comiskey] must have been built on a junkyard!"
- Luke Appling
Tag Archives: Chicago Cubs
If You Will It, Dude, It Is No Dream
Filed Under: Opinion Also Filed Under: 2008, ALDS, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Media, playoffs, Tampa Bay Rays Comments closed
If There’s a Light Up Ahead Well, Brother, I Don’t Know
We could be heroes, just for staving off total humiliation another day.
Filed Under: Opinion Also Filed Under: 2008, ALDS, Chicago White Sox, Media, playoffs, Tampa Bay Rays Comments closed
Bold Predictions: A Non-Vote of Confidence
What we talk about when we talk about Non-Sox playoff series: Cubs/Dodgers: If the Sox win (more on that tomorrow), may the Cubs win as well; if not, well, it will at least be kind of fun to watch Carlos Zambrano murder one (or many!) of his teammates on national television. Whatever. Prediction: Cubs in 4 OR [...]
Filed Under: News Also Filed Under: ALDS, Bold Predictions, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, NLDS, Philadelphia Phillies, playoffs Comments closed
The 35th Street Post Office [September 20, 2008]
In which your editor admits to wishing the Cubs the very second-best.
Filed Under: Features Also Filed Under: Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Mailbag, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, rivalries Comments closed
Let That Devil Out
The myth of “Perfect attendance” infiltrates the American League East.
Filed Under: Opinion Also Filed Under: 2000, 2005, attendance, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, pennant race, Tampa Bay Rays Comments closed
435 N. Michigan
Strange times get stranger at the Chicago Tribune: Owner sam Zell is being sued by his employees. . . . . . their most valuable asset is under fire for receiving scheduling favors from Major League Baseball. . . . . . the biggest news in local sports media isn’t local sports news but news about local sports [...]
Filed Under: News Also Filed Under: Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Jay Mariotti, Media, Wrigley Field sale Comments closed
Half-Irish Thoughts for a Half-Irish Night
A brief bit of angry, nonsensical sabre-rattling you’d expect from a guy who celebrates the midpoint between made-up holidays.
Making (Old) Headlines
You have to love Chicago baseball in September. No matter where you live or who you root for, everyone is but one headline away from another season of failure: Is this Hell? No, it’s Cleveland Tests on Sox’ Quentin ‘good so far’ Ozzie: Fields’ fielding must improve E-5? Crede says no contract error made Zambrano [...]
Filed Under: News Also Filed Under: 2004, Chicago White Sox, Frank Thomas, Kerry Wood, Magglio Ordonez, Mark Prior, Media, pennant race Comments closed
Class, Decency and Parking Lot T-Shirts
Looking ahead to awful news becoming awful behavior.
All the News that’s Fit to Ruin a Two-Year-Old’s Birthday Party
I try to run a fairly news-ignorant operation here, but this was too good to pass up: Cubs fans accused of beating White Sox fan, says the Associated Press by way of the Chicago Tribune. Despite not mentioning what actually led to said assault, their trusty copywriter apparently deemed the baseball allegiances to be the [...]
Superfan
You think you hate the Cubs? You have no idea how to hate the Cubs.
Filed Under: News Also Filed Under: Chicago Tribune, Media, Sam Zell, Wrigley Field sale Comments closed
The A.J. Pierzynski of Postseason Predictions
Examining exactly why the Chicago Cubs won the same number of playoff games this year as the 35th Street editorial team.