I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark.

As one who isn’t currently signed up for the Marquis Network and Cubs telecasts this season, I’m curious to see how I consume regular season games from the comfort of Casa de Bob. I know fans in other cities have to figure out how they’ll do the same with their favorite teams as broadcast deals…

It’s assumed that the media has a better understanding of similes and metaphors because they are schooled in those things at journalism school. Because the line between journalism and media has become so blurred in the past twenty years, it’s naive to assume that any of the above can work an apt metaphor into daily…

I lucked out and caught the second half of tonight’s CFP championship. Congrats to the Indiana Hoosiers and the university. While it has no real connection, 50 years ago, Bobby Knight his Hoosiers won the first of three NCAA hoops titles. (76, 81 and 87). First team to go 16-0 in winning the football title…

Because I don’t offer game analysis of baseball games that I don’t attend, I’m not going to veer into uncharted territory with last night’s Bears loss. However, I do have thoughts about the pass and what it means. I’ll never understand why Caleb Williams is so much better in the fourth quarter with the game…

Sports fans are a superstitious lot and suspicious to boot. When national broadcasters start emphasizing the positives of our local teams, fans worry that they’ll be jinxed and ultimately will lose. We secretly love being the underdog. Bears fans should start worrying because the two most cynical columnists in town picked the Bears to beat…

We’re less than 6 hours from kickoff between the Bears and the Rams and Bears fans are behaving like the leads from a teen drama from the 90’s. It seems fans can’t handle if everyone in Bearsland isn’t 100% behind the team, their fandom is fraudulent. It used to be that doubt was reasonable if…

Since the Dodgers won the World Series, there have been 864 player transactions in MLB. 410% of them involved players with no ML experience. I may be stretching the truth, but I think I may have minimized the numbers. No matter. Hundreds of players have switched teams in the new year, and most are unrecognizable…

I don’t begrudge any of the MLer’s for the money they are making, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think some guys aren’t worth the money, relative to their peers. Case in point, Kyle Tucker for $60m/year??? Without doing a deep dive, he didn’t have an epic walk year to warrant that kind of do…

While the Bears were beating the Packers last night, I read that the Cubs signed Alex Bregman to a five-year $175 million contract and because I’m a baseball fan that news was more important than the Bears victory. As I type this, it’s still according to a source. As recently as this morning, the experts…

With the odd gap week between rounds of the CFP and first NFL playoff games, some would consider this an inopportune time for MLB teams to make big news. Yet. there are rumblings that the Red Sox might make a move on Alex Bregman at their fanfest. Regardless of what happens in tonight’s Packers-Bears game,…