Cubs win! Cubs wins! Hoooooly Cow!

I just wanted, happily, to note that, as of two thirty, post-meridian, on the fourth of August, the Chicago Cubs, with a record of sixty-seven wins and forty-five losses (a point-five-ninety-eight winning per-centage!), maintain a five-game lead over the Milwaukee (read “Wrigley-North”) Brewers and a six-game margin against perfidious St. Louis. Only Tampa Bay (What?!) [...]

Some people, at least, remain passionate about America’s pastime

From the Chicago Tribune: I’m not sure if I feel pride or shame at the violence dealt to a lone White Sox fan by a gang of three North Side loyalists, but this ridiculous, either way. Proof, though, I suppose, that not all of us Wrigley patriots are effete types. As an un-signed blurb in [...]

Gotta love the Irish! Candygram.

First, they saved civilization.
And now, they have saved a game for the Cubs (Ignore his clearly Slavic last name.) This is one land Shark (Cleverest species of them all!) I’d welcome at my door.
I’m only a dolphin, ma’am.

Cheer, cheer for old . . . Chicago!

A tip o’ the hat to The Blue-Gray Sky for this one, from the Chicago Sun-Times:
A Cubs team fiercely trying to focus on the present could get its first glimpse of a big part of its future today with the arrival of top pitching prospect Jeff Samardzija.
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The former Notre Dame football [...]

Simultaneously awesome and sad

Introducing the Manatees. Seriously, this is awesome. But it really troubles me; we need to be discouraging, rather than encouraging, obesity. I love baseball and, despite the scandals of recent years, look forward to another year of heartbreak: Eamus Catuli!.