Mar 1, 2020 | Cubs, Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
So, I’ve got some news. It might be bad news, or it might be good news, depending on if you subscribe to The Athletic and if you actually like(d) my weekly Monday morning Cub o’ Coffee column, which I wrote every week from March 2016 until about a month...
Jun 15, 2019 | Featured, Media Hacks
In a shocking turn of events, the state of Illinois passed a budget this year, on time (well, a couple days late) and it’s balanced (with some fancy math, sure.) How did they accomplish such a feat and find money to fix our crumbling roads and sagging bridges,...
Nov 29, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, NFL
Every year the fine people at Awful Announcing do a poll to grade the announcers in the major sports. A couple of days ago they released this year’s grades for all of the NFL announcing crews. But something was missing. It wasn’t the announcing teams,...
Jan 27, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, NFL
So, Vince McMahon is proof of something the Cubs last reminded us of a couple of years ago with Chris Coghlan–a bad idea repeated is still a really bad idea. He’s bringing back the XFL, the league that brought us guys paralyzing themselves chasing after...
Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
The only reason reasonable people follow USA Today baseball writer Bob Nightengale on Twitter is either because they, like Bob, are founding members of the Dusty Baker Fan Club, or just for the amusement you get from the stupid shit that he writes. The Baseball Hall...
Jan 22, 2018 | Featured, Media Hacks, MLB
It’s an odd time for Chicago sports to say the least. The Bears are rebuilding (again) with a quarterback who presumably likes his queso with actual cheese and plans to vaccinate his unborn kids. Oh, and their coach is actually younger than Tom Brady. The...
