By Lissa Weinstein
You can reasonably expect to get a smaller option for $2 million or less!
Posted on January 12, 2012
Grinding Rich Munnich’s Gears: Seven Deadly Sins
By Rich Munnich
“Does anyone recall what the seven deadly sins are? Don’t forget to vote March 20, 2012 in Illinois. That phone is a year old and the wire is fraying. I taped it up with electrical tape.”
Posted on January 11, 2012
Wallflip: UIC’s Nacho
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. Carlos Zambrano, WTF?
On most days, a one-way Greyhound bus ticket from Chicago to Miami runs about $180. The Cubs bought the $15 million ticket just to get Carlos Zambrano out of town more expeditiously.
Think of this carefully. They paid $15 million of the last $18 million they owe him to pitch for anyone, anywhere else other than Chicago. That’s one heaping pile of get-out-of-town.
Theo Epstein to Carlos: We hate you. But wait. It gets worse for Z. Not only did the Marlins have to give back only a small stipend to make it seem like a real transaction and one less-than-mediocre (but young) starter, it also means this was the official word of Organized Baseball.
This was the best deal the Cubs could attract, and they couldn’t even get Carlos out of the league where he might come back to bite them.
Apparently general managers everywhere have been watching Zambrano’s self-immolations with similar alarm.
Posted on January 6, 2012
Hell On Earth In River North
A New Year’s Eve Nightmare
Fish fucking filet in two parts.
1. Oh my . . .
Posted on January 3, 2012
Chicagoetry: Black And Blue
By J.J. Tindall
Black and Blue
One black morning
the ordinary returned.
Savings and career
obliterated;
inundated, enervated by
cheap, trite platitudes
Posted on January 2, 2012