Community projections are for idiots

There’s this thing–it’s not a trend, exactly, more like a folly–going on at other sites (one, in particular) where they ask for their readers to guess what stats players will end up with at the end of the season.  They average those stats and...

Best magazine cover…ever

Our good friend Al Yellon is the proud editor of a fine Cubs preview publication titled…well, actually that’s kind of what we’re confused about. Check out the cover over here.  Either Derrek Lee’s head is covering up a pretty important pair of...

What are the Cubs packing?

Thanks to the hard hitting work of the Sun-Times investigative unit the world has a list of just exactly what the Cubs equipment staff have packed for the trip to lovely, destitute Mesa, Arizona.  And, it leads to ghey-est headline we’ve had here since...

How to report the news

The BBC’s Newswipe with an explanation of how to report the news. It’s pretty much exactly right.  The only thing they’re missing is a segment on how to be like Chris Hansen and convince a pederast he can leave the house only to have him tackled by...

Cubs 2012? God help us all

Since I was a kid I’ve always looked forward to picking up The Sporting News baseball preview magazine.  There’s a lot wrong with it, of course, it’s written way too early in the offseason to catch all of the transactions, their predictions suffer...

Chicago Now 185, Readers 0

When the Tribune Company launched Chicago Now last spring, they did so to great fanfare.  People said that it was going to revolutionize how people in Chicago shared ideas and information. Wait, there wasn’t any fanfare.  Nobody even cared they were doing...