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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,…

In Chicago, tonight’s playoff game between the Bears and Packers, is being billed as the most important game at Soldier Field in the past 15 years. In what seems like only an hour ago, Chicago was saying the same thing about last week’s tilt with the Lions. I think it’s more than recency bias, rather…

I’m 67% sure that the Kinks weren’t writing about me and my desire for the Cubs to make something happen, but it sure seems that way. While everyone in Chicago was talking about the Bears and Packers yesterday, the Cubs sneaked in a big trade. To hear the experts, this move should get the ball…

While trying to sift through some information re: the Cubs recent trade, I read about the Rockies newest acquisition, Michael “Don’t call me Mike” Lorenzen. Lorenzen surrendered a career high 25 homers with the Royals. Will he give up more than 25 homers in the friendly confines in Denver?

Heading into the season, I don’t think anyone outside of the Bears organuzation had the Bears winning 11regular season games. 7-9 wins was the prevailing yet optimistic range for a team coming off 5-12 season, but a 0-2 start caused some to rethink their positions. As they started to stack up wins, their confidence grew…