Chicago - A message from the station manager

Tweeting Tom Ricketts

By Steve Rhodes

Boiling down this clusterfuck to a few salient points that our foggy, amnesiac media keeps missing, because this is a well-worn script and we’re sick of it.
(And we’ll take Harry Caray and Steve Stone over David Haugh and David Kaplan any day.)

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Posted on May 3, 2013

Fantasy Fix: Run Support

By Dan O’Shea

One of the most obvious maxims of baseball is “To win games, you need to score runs.”
That may not always be true in fantasy baseball weekly match-ups, however, especially in those leagues that count every stat up to and including put-outs.
Yet at some point this season, no matter what kind of league you’re in, runs could be the stat category that turns a weekly match-up loss into a win, or vice versa. It may not even make that big a difference, perhaps even just a point that proves valuable in playoff bracketing later on.

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Posted on May 1, 2013

Exclusive! Behind The Wrigley Renovation

Another Beachwood Scoop

Tom Ricketts finally dribbled out his family’s renovation plans for Wrigley Field on Tuesday, in advance of his big presentation at the City Club today showing why we should all take pity on how one of America’s richest families is being restrained from running its own business by pesky binding contracts, existing preservation law, city building and zoning codes, annoying neighbors and general Kubs Karma. Hint: The new Wrigley will look like an LED sign convention.
The Beachwood, as usual, has obtained the Ricketts’ confidential companion marketing plan to the renovation. Here are the highlights:

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Posted on May 1, 2013

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