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Another lost Saturday in Chicago..
If the third largest sports market in the country held a quadruple header on a cold Saturday afternoon and nobody showed, would the six fans in attendance make a noise? Personally, I have no idea what a college football Saturday is like. In my four fall semesters in college, we didn’t have anything resembling a…
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The Cubs finally struck gold…
The Cubs finally landed an impact free agent this year. We’ll have to wait and see if Dansby Swanson is the answer to all of our problems. If one believes the reports, a 7-year $177 million contract is quite a deal-given what the other shortstops have gotten and other free agents. Unlike most of the…
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Ho ho ho…
Holiday pop-up bars and outlandish decorations have become the norm. Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas or not, bumping into bars and restaurants cashing in the holidays is impossible these days. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As we’ve all been forced to face different and difficult economic realities, businesses have been forced to…
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Drunken sailors totally rock!
As a baseball fan almost completely bored by the current NFL season, I couldn’t be happier that general managers, at the behest of their bosses, are finally opening their wallets and spending big time on free agents. As friends keep reminding me, it’s not my money and the spending is in indication of how well…
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This year’s Rule Five Draft
For the better part of the last dozen years, I’ve probably discussed the RF draft more than any writer not employed by MLB or MLBPipeline. As this is the first time since 2006-excluding the Pandemic season, where I haven’t been to Arizona for the AFL. Not only was there no AFL season in 2020, we…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 