by Kent Sterling Winning a championship is hard, and there is no shame in not winning one for a few seasons, but minus a few outliers, the City of Chicago has had some barren years minus the Blackhawks over the past half century. I would love for you to click here to follow Kent on […]
by Kent Sterling “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” appears to be a phrase near and dear to the hearts of the Wrigley Field Rooftop Association. They email their literature to me on a regular basis, and appear to have misjudged my feelings toward them. The Cubs business office is run by an […]
by Kent Sterling A first base coach can be a drinking buddy for the manager – a bobo who hits pregame fungoes and tells the baserunners on first how many outs there are. They say things like, “Make the line drive go through!” Or he can be a key component in the rebuilding of a […]
by Kent Sterling I wish Cubs owner Tom Ricketts played poker and I could get a seat at his table. Every time he plays a hand, he bluffs, and I would own the Cubs the next day. Today, at a breakfast of business owners in Chicago, he threatened to move. Cubs fans and the City […]
by Kent Sterling Andre Dawson had one of the quickest bats in major league history, a cannon for a right arm, and now is using another asset to help owner Tom Ricketts find his checkbook – the truth. Dawson spoke with the Chicago Sun-Times Gordon Whittenmyer and said some insightful and obvious things: “I never thought […]
by Kent Sterling There was a time not too long ago that fans in what is now Bankers Life Fieldhouse bought all the available tickets, got to the game early, and were engaged throughout even meaningless games. Indianapolis was a Pacers town, and Reggie Miller was the hero of every grade school kid who ever […]
by Kent Sterling There is no punchline worthy of the beginning of baseball’s best joke – How stupid are Cubs fans? Scores of sentimental dork sportswriters romanticize this ridiculous bunch. Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times extolled the virtue of the 2.88 million who poured through the turnstyles to watch one of the worst teams […]
by Kent Sterling When did third baseman Aramis Ramirez turn 50? In part, because of Ramirez’ uninspired play (i’m being very polite) the Chicago Cubs are the laughing stock of baseball. With the sixth highest payroll in baseball payroll of $125 million, the Cubs have managed to win less games through 58 games than all […]
by Kent Sterling The last time the Chicago Cubs allowed as many as seven runs that were all unearned – Hall of Famer Ernie Banks was a 26 year-old shortstop. Now 80, if Banks was watching the mess last night in Cincinnati, he would have said, “Let’s play none!” The Cubs committed four errors in […]
by Kent Sterling The Chicago Cubs have Derek Jeter alongside Starlin Castro on billboards all over Chicago extolling fans to buy mini-season ticket packages. How pathetic. The Yankees will be at Wrigley for a three game set from June 17 – June 19, but if a ducat to one of those three games is the […]