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The Cubs meltdown: Mystical billy goat ruins another autumn

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, Music, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »

GateHouse — Oh, don’t worry, we’ll all line up again next year.
We’ll all slosh around this week and pretend to be mad and besprinkle whatever unfortunate schmucks happen to be in front of us at the copy machine with promises of change. We’ll say, “No more!’, we’ll punch a few walls, we’ll go to doctors [...]

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Hey Hey Holy Mackerel, Or, Please Don’t F(*# This Up

Posted in Music, mp3, tagged , , , , , on October 1, 2008 | No Comments »

Pictured: Wrigley Field, in the early part of the 1900s, before there was color, a goat, Leon Durham, Steve Bartman, night baseball and several different incarnations of Carlos Zambrano.
• Steve Goodman - A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request.mp3
(A great Cubs-song post can be found here, featuring more Goodman, the Mountain Goats and Harry Caray).

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The Cubs win the Central: Damn it

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »

GateHouse — See, the problem with this now is that I have to watch. The problem is that I have to organize myself so I’m in front of TVs, I have to get nervous on game day, I have to pretend like the last bunch of times never happened. I have to care, I have [...]

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Dept. Of Deposing: Possible Reasons Fidel Castro Is Stepping Down

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, Page 3, tagged , , , , , on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »

From Island Packet staff reports, including this guy and this guy

He died in 2003.
Will appear in next season of “Grey’s Anatomy” as the wisened-yet-sexy new attending, Dr. Pecs Vallejo.
Olive is no longer in fashion. Couldn’t let go.
Needs to spend time with his real passion: Haiku.
The Cubs are desperate for arms.
Felt he was too old [...]

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Karl, I think I’ll miss you most of all

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , , , on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »

GateHouse - When I played it over and over in my head nearly every day throughout the past seven years, the day that Karl Rove resigned would elicit frothy, embarrassing fits of uncontrollable glee in me; it would be on par with the day I accidentally sank a college three-pointer in fifth-grade gym class, or [...]

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Eddie Vedder’s Cubs song: “Go All The Way”

Posted in Music, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2007 | 32 Comments »

• Update: Download the official version straight from the good people at the Pearl Jam camp.

Edward takes a stab at writing this year’s “Go Cubs Go,” or possibly “The Cubbies Are Rockin’.” Sure, it’s not quite as boundy as “Men In Blue,” but what’s what happens when you write a Cubs song and don’t ask [...]

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Tear down Wrigley Field, 2007 Edition

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , , on February 22, 2007 | No Comments »

 
GateHouse - Time once again to renew my annual loud, obnoxious and ultimately futile call to reduce Wrigley Field to tiny, tiny pieces as soon as is humanly possible under the current rules and guidelines enforced by the various neighborhood associations and alderman (i.e., 34 years).
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