Archive for October 3rd, 2008

Were Chicagoians asking for trouble?

When your mayor is strong-arming bar owners to not sell alcohol after the 7th inning of potential series clinching games over a week before you even start the playoffs and your team has not won the World Series since 1908, you might be inviting some bad karma. Just sayin.

0 comments October 03 2008 | Mike T | Discussion

Sweet Lou for President

We need Lou in the playoffs if only for the fact that he is entertaining. His post game press conference. “I don’t want to hear anymore questions about Fukodome. He’s 0 for 8 and I’m going to play Fontenot or [intelligible]. End of story.” And obviously he said it in [...]

0 comments October 03 2008 | Russ | Discussion

100 and counting

As soon as I read a long article in Sports Illustrated last week about the dedicated long suffering (and rarely sober) Cubs bleacher fans thinking this was their year, you just knew they were doomed. If the SI cover is often considered a jinx, a seven page article in that magazine causes immediate rigor mortis.
Sweet [...]

0 comments October 03 2008 | John S | Discussion