As far as I can tell, the heat opened up a parallel universe where Roy Halladay is mediocre and Rodrigo Lopez is awesome. Or something. The heat definitely played a role as Halladay was forced from the game in the 5th inning after already allowing three runs on seven hits… or so the Phillies would have us believe. (AP Photo/Charles …
Series Preview: Philadelphia Phillies (59-35) at Whitney Young Dolphins (38-58)
Technically, the Phillies have the best record in MLB. And technically, the Cubs have the second worst. So technically, the Phillies should slaughter the Cubs. But on artistic merit, the Cubs have a clear advantage and should dominate the series. Paul McCartney is playing Wrigley at the end of the month, so I really don’t know what can stop the …
OV Pic of the Day: Crushing Loss (in Soccer)
Unlike alot of the viewers of the Women’s World Cup finals, these folks seem pretty prepared for a crushing defeat. Never say being a Cubs fan doesn’t have its benefits. (Photo by Brian Kersey/Getty Images)
Breaking Bad Season 4 Premiere
Figured we should start a thread for this if anyone wants to talk about so we’re not spoiling anything for those who haven’t seen it. So if you haven’t seen it, don’t read this thread. If you do, don’t complain about hearing stuff you didn’t want to know.
Bruce Levine’s 5 most likely to be traded, yo
Happy Breaking Bad Day … bitch! After xoomwaffle posted this link to Levine’s article earlier today I started writing something and then lost interest about a half sentence in. That’s been happening a lot lately. I started writing something yesterday and lost interest about 3 paragraphs in. A few days ago I began writing something where I was comparing Starlin …
OV Pic of the Day: Anger Management
So that kind of sucked. How do you handle such an ass-kicking, Carlos? (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) Oh. Right.
OV Pic of the Day: Marlins Do a Funny Bit
Those funny, funny Marlins. They’re a hoot. They out-Cubbed the Cubs and saved Carlos Marmol from getting lynched. I hope they do an encore tomorrow. (AP Photo/ Paul Beaty)
Cubs Pic of the Day – Look! A Dewayne Wise Sighting!
I tried something last year over at Aisle 424 that I called the Play of the Day that substituted a game recap. My reasoning was that everyone with a Cubs blog that wanted to be “taken seriously” did a game recap, and the last thing I want to do with the Cubs is take them seriously. So I highlighted a …
Series Preview: Florida Marlins (43-48) at Iowa Cubs of Chicago (37-55)
After three days of not losing, the Cubs are back in the saddle again to play out the string on the rest of the season. The Marlins have had a roller coaster of a season so far. As recently as June 1 they had a 31-23 record and were two games out from the division lead. June turned out to …
A Tale of Two Sluggers
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.They were the suckiest of sluggers, they were the strongest of sluggers. They couldn’t hit, they couldn’t be retired. This is the tale of two sluggers who gave us two quarter seasons of two extremes . . . that apparently made no difference. Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Pena began …