What I Talk About When I Talk About Losing

I would describe myself as a pretty normal guy. I like to eat good food, but I’m just as happy drinking a beer or eating donuts; I like to go on long-distance runs, and I’ve even run a few triathlons, but I don’t devote my whole life to exercise; I like to write internationally acclaimed […]

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2008 Season Preview: Chicago Cubs

Continuing our stunningly comprehensive series, we are proud to welcome award-winning hipster-bait Japanese author Haruki Murakami. His novels include Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore; he has also published non-fiction and about one million short stories in The New Yorker. He checks in from […]

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Pay Grady

Grady is here to tell you: It’s time for Dusty Baker to go. Go where? Grady doesn’t care. Grady is sure that Dusty can pack up his sweatbands and his millions of dollars and find somewhere nice and scenic to sit and watch young men be overworked. Dusty might make a fine foreman at a […]

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9th Inning Wood

A lot of people come up and ask me what I think about the possibility of Kerry Wood as the new Cubs closer. Now I have a lot of experience pitching, and I have a lot of experience pitching for the Cubs, but I never know what to tell the fans when this question comes […]

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