Jan 19, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
As part of our ongoing (never ending, really) celebration of Desipio’s 20th anniversary, I’m still digging up golden oldies. Given the mild backlash my Monday Cub O’ Coffee column on The Athletic got because I was “mean to Tom Ricketts and...
Jan 4, 2018 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
It’s still our 20th anniversary. Today we look back just a couple of years to the time we did an oral history of a Cubs Convention that hadn’t happened yet. Originally posted, January 14, 2016 Nobody does oral histories quite like we do, and that’s...
Sep 11, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured
It’s a funny thing about the 2003 season, because it ended so horribly, and was followed up by the even worse experience of 2004 we don’t just not look back fondly on the season, we hardly look back on it at all. But until games five, six and seven of the...
Sep 11, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured
Desipio is so old that when it started there wasn’t any social media. It’s not like Twitter made me more of a smartass, it just allowed me to inflict it on more people. Such is the price of fame that it occasionally comes back to bite people. Like when...
Aug 17, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Cubs, Featured, MLB
It seems perfectly sensible now that Theo Epstein left the Red Sox to take on the task of rebuilding the Cubs, but at the time it was a complete shock. First, that Theo would want to come, and second, that the Ricketts didn’t screw it all up. Here’s the...
Aug 17, 2017 | 20th Anniversary, Featured, MLB
Remember in 2007 when Lou Pinella lost his shit and kicked dirt all over a third base umpire? He got suspended and the Cubs went on their first decent winning streak of the season. We did a running diary of game two of his suspension on June 4, 2007 against the...