Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is a tone-deaf buffoon. When The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg reported yesterday that the Ricketts Family has scheduled a party this Thursday to honor themselves for “saving” Wrigley Field, I believed it was a parody. After all, the Cubs lost their 12th straight last night with what is now a triple-A roster […]
Cubs president Theo Epstein is leaving the team on Friday, and there is a lot of chatter about what nefariousness occurred to cause this change at the top of the franchise’s front office. The answer appears to be that Epstein is leaving because the time has come. It’s simple as that. Sometimes the most least […]
Billionaires care most about money. That’s why they are billionaires. Major League Baseball franchise owners are billionaires, so why does it surprise anyone that they are united it their refusal to pony up $20 million each to get players back on the field? The discord between owners and the players union is easy to explain. […]
Baseball needs to get its head out of its ass or suffer the consequences. Our society craves a feeling of shared sacrifice and empathy for one another. Between the riots and Coronavirus, many feel isolated, agitated, and downright afraid of what might happen next. Baseball has responded by bickering over how many millions of dollars men […]
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The Chicago Cubs lost their eighth consecutive game last night, and were mathematically eliminated from the postseason for the first time since 2014. That’s the what. But fans want to know why it happened, and more importantly how this doesn’t happen again to their team. Why did Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks, Jose Quintana, Cole Hamels, and […]
The 2019 Chicago Cubs are playing da baseball because neither fun nor mental describe their efforts through 156 games. Six games remain and the Cubs still have a slim chance of playing in the postseason, but aren’t optimistic after watching them lose their last five games by a single run. Just three years ago the Cubs won their […]
