by Kent Sterling It has long been said that the Chicago Cubs can drive the sane completely mad. What owning the team can do was anyone’s guess until today when Cubs owner Tom Ricketts told the media, “I think we have a team right now that can go to the playoffs.” Predicting victory is a screwy […]
by Kent Sterling Sure, the Chicago Cubs are a terrible baseball team, but maybe the games on the field at Wrigley Field aren’t the most important being played in Wrigleyville. The battle between the rooftop owners and the Cubs has made headlines for years as the video boards the Cubs would like to erect above […]
by Kent Sterling Cubs fans need to resist all temptation to buy into the nonsense Cubs management is peddling. Owner Tom Ricketts and team president Theo Epstein talk about hope for the distant future with the same zeal with which they battle the rooftop knuckleheads for the right to erect a giant video sign in […]
by Kent Sterling The Cubs avoided an unpleasant arbitration hearing and virtually assured a trade by signing pitcher Jeff Samardzija to a one-year deal worth $5,345,000. Eventually, Samardzija will be released from the purgatory a roster spot with the Cubs represents. The Cubs are still in dump mode, and a pitcher like Samardzija has value […]
by Kent Sterling Have you ever had a job where an inept oaf continued to receive promotion after promotion without justification, other than an inability for management to see him for who he is? On the Chicago Cubs, that employee is second baseman Darwin Barney There was a time that I was bullish on Darwin […]
by Kent Sterling Ernie Banks loved his job, and he was very good at it. For a generation of Chicagoans, Ernie Banks embodied the beauty of enjoying what you do. He hit 512 home runs, and was a first ballot hall of famer for a franchise that absolutely sucked through nearly his entire career. Until […]
by Kent Sterling According to a smart guy named Clay Davenport who runs computer simulations and analyzes statistical probabilities, the Chicago Cubs will be the only team in baseball to win less than 70 games in 2014. Don’t worry, the bevy of amazing and highly touted prospects the Chicago media crows about daily are only […]
by Kent Sterling The battle between the Cubs and the owners of the rooftop saloons that overlook Wrigley Field from across Waveland and Sheffield Avenues is a little like a grade school fight between bullies. Both guys losing is the only acceptable outcome. Cubs owner Smilin’ Tommy Ricketts would like to erect giant video boards […]
by Kent Sterling Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts breathed a long sigh of relief this morning when Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka announced his intention to accept the New York Yankees offer of a seven-year, $155 million to hurl a supposedly unhittable splitter in the Bronx. The Cubs generated a lot of media coverage by engaging […]
by Kent Sterling The Chicago Cubs are supposedly putting their best foot and checkbook forward in trying to lure Japanese hurler Masahiro Tanaka to ply his wares on Chicago’s North Side, but there is no chance at all that he accepts – and the Cubs know it. On its face, the bidding is idiotic. The […]