May 19, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs are ready to unveil the Fergie Jenkins statue, and the guys get so distracted by the fact the new “statue row” has two empty podiums that they spend the hour trying to figure out which players the Cubs are going to immortalize next. They’re...
May 12, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs went back to the playoffs for a second straight year, and won just as many postseason games as they did the year before. But this was a 97 win team with a Japanese star in right field, a Cardinals retread in center, and a rookie of the year catcher. It was...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1981 Cubs season was so bad that fans were relieved when baseball took two months off right in the middle of the season. The Cubs record was so lousy that they ended up with the first pick in the 1982 draft, but they didn’t have the worst record in the...
Apr 13, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The 1984 Cubs were mostly still around in 1986 only they were older and mostly injured and pretty bad. The Cubs got off to a hot start, if 2-8 is hot, Lee Smith pitched a lot, like a lot a lot, nobody won 10 games, Jim Frey got fired. The Cubs fielded a dream twosome...
Apr 7, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The Cubs were “Building A New Tradition” in 1982 with a new general manager in Dallas Green and a new manager in Lee Elia (no, it’s not THAT Lee Elia season). If there were Prospect Perverts forty years ago they were excited about a trade that...
Mar 31, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
It was the dawn of a new era for the Cubs with Andy MacPhail, Ed Lynch and Jim Riggleman wandering into town. They traded for Brian McRae, grabbed Howard Johnson off the scrapheap, and once they found out what a juggernaut they had they traded in-season for Todd...
