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...
Mar 16, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
The wheel of crap lands on the earliest possible season and we break down the 1980 Cubs. Preston Gomez. Tim Blackwell. Lenny Randle. Dave Kingman. Dennis Lamp. Two Hall of Fame closers, two Cy Young Award winners in the bullpen, Bill Buckner won the batting title and...
Mar 10, 2022 | Cubs, Featured, MLB, Podcast, Remember This Crap
It’s time to spin the wheel of Cubs crap again, but this time the pod starts with the guys talking about the end to the MLB lockout. Then the wheel lands on one of the most inauspicious years in Cubs’ history the Mike Quade-led disaster that was the 2011...
Feb 10, 2022 | Bears, Featured, NFL, Oral Histories, Remember This Crap
The Bears have had quite a few job searches since George Halas hired Mike Ditka over pudding and a wet nap in 1982, and the guys look at every candidate from all of them. Some of them you won’t believe they bothered to talk to, others you’ll be mad that...
