Don’t make me pine for Chad Tracy

With the Cubs decision to keep Tyler Colvin on the big league roster, it’s now official.  There’s one roster spot left and it’s going to go to either Kevin Millar, Chad Tracy, Micah Hoffpauir or Sam Fuld. First off, it’s not going to...

My participation will end anything

The timing was coincidental (we think) but all too predictable.  Two days after Kermit, Chuck and I made our second appearance on WGN Radio’s Sports Central, the station admitted what had been rumored.  They’re canceling the show. It might well have been...

Holy crap, we missed the Golden Age?

For a guy who apparently makes his living as a writer, has Will Leitch ever written anything vaguely memorable?  I mean, he’s apparently written some books that nobody has ever bought, and he made his name “writing” for Deadspin (where he basically...

The hysterical society weighs in on Wrigley’s new sign

Longtime Tribune douchebag Blair Kamin, the man who predicted gloom and doom for the city when the Bears decided to make new Soldier Field look like a cross between a giant ashtray and a spaceship that had crashed the lakefront, is at it again. Today, his target is...

Bad ideas float?

I first read this completely inane idea about “floating realignment” in Major League Baseball on Monday, and I thought if I just ignored it, it would go away.  I tried the same thing with a credit card bill in the ’90s and that didn’t work,...

For a guy who doesn’t talk, he never shuts up

As Milton Bradley’s further descent, deeper into paranoid delusion continues unabated, I really wonder just how all of those naive dopes who defended him as recently as a couple of weeks ago feel.  Actually, I don’t wonder.  Because I don’t care,...