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Jose Abreu And Danny Salazar Make Meaningless Game Something Special
If you're the kind of person who lacks the requisite attention span to sit through all nine innings of a baseball game, last night's game between the White Sox and Indians was perfect for you. You only needed to stick around for five innings of baseball in order to catch all of the awesomeness packe...
Hawk Harrelson Should Probably Not Suggest "Asians" Are "Deceptive"
Chen-Chang Lee is a pitcher for the Indians. He's from Taiwan. During tonight's broadcast of Cleveland's bout in Chicago against the White Sox, horrible broadcaster Ken "Hawk" Harrelson painted Lee with some broad and ambiguously racist strokes....
If This Is How MLB's New Home-Plate Rule Will Be Applied, We Hate It [Update]
In the fourth inning of today's Pirates-Cubs game, even the WGN announcers were incredulous that Starlin Castro was ruled safe on this play at the plate. It turned out to be the first questionable use of a new MLB rule meant to crack down on collisions at the plate....
Jose Abreu Makes His Big-League Splash With Two Homers
It didn't take long for Yasiel Puig and Yoenis Cespedes to go from being Cuban defectors shrouded in mystery to household names. Based on what he did last night, it looks like White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu, the latest Cuban-born star to arrive in the majors, is on a similar path to stardom....
Here Is A Cubs Mascot Punching A Dude For Taking His Head Off
This is not the degenerate Cubs mascot whose pantsless existence we've all come to know and struggle to comprehend. This is just some bootleg, pantsless, degenerate Cubs mascot who does not enjoy it at all when people remove his head. ...
Even When The Cubs Win, They Lose
The Chicago Cubs salvaged a win in their opening series against the Pirates with a rain-soaked 3-2 victory at PNC Park today, but it wasn't without some embarrassment. A botched bunt by Gaby Sanchez left pitcher Pedro Strop and catcher John Baker in what we might call a compromising situation....
White Sox Games Are Eerily Empty
Baseball is not dying. The White Sox should not be contracted. It is April, and it is cold and gray and wet in Chicago, and normal people are at work or in school. There are many more reasons not to be at U.S. Cellular Field than there are to be there, but my goodness: That is an empty ballpark....
The Cubs Aren't Even Bothering With Matching Uniforms Anymore
Either Junior Lake is not very attentive when getting dressed, or the Cubs' uniform budget is running a little thin. ...
Welington Castillo Took A Foul Ball Right To The Dick
Happy Opening Day, Welington Castillo. Sorry about your nards....
Chicago Sports Radio Host Shits In The Studio, Flees The Building
Les Grobstein, overnight host for 670 The Score, is a sort-of legend in Chicago, not just for his encyclopedic knowledge of area sports but for being, basically, the real life Oscar Madison. (See this great old Ben Joravsky piece, which among other things details how Grobstein got the infamous Lee E...
Newlyweds Photobombed By Patrick Sharp
Chicagoans Carrie and Rob Krolak held their wedding reception in a suite at Friday night's Blackhawks game. While posing for photos down on ice level during warm-ups, they were joined by an unexpected guest—winger Patrick Sharp....
Shut Up About "Clickbait"
Ninety-two years ago, a 34-year-old Chicago man named Joseph Wozniak woke up missing one of his balls, which had been surgically removed by hoodlums. ...
Watch This Chicago 'L' Train Jump The Tracks And Run Up An Escalator
The other day, a Chicago Transit Authority operator apparently fell asleep, and the Blue Line train she was running consequently jumped the tracks at O'Hare and ran up a god damn escalator, injuring 32 people, causing an estimated $6 million in damage and screwing up commutes all over the city. Here...
Pantsless Degenerate Spotted In Airport
Thoughts and prayers to the poor soul standing behind him at security when he bends down to take his shoes off. ...
Hockey Fight Erupts In, And Around, The Benches
(Update: this is from last year, our bad.) Lost in the madness of March was this little gem from the AHL this week. A fight between the Rockford Ice Hogs and Chicago Wolves, in the final seconds of a 2-1 Hogs win, broke out basically in the Rockford bench and spread to surrounding area. ...
High Schooler Shot In Leg, Hits Playoff Game-Winner Days Later
Chicago high school senior Tyquone Greer wasn't sure he could even play basketball again after a bullet went completely through his leg at a neighborhood party last week. But only nine days later, Greer sank the game-winning shot for Orr Academy High School (Ill.) over North Chicago....
Michael Carter-Williams Travels, Remembers He's On The 76ers
The 76ers were down two possessions with 16 seconds left against the Bulls. Barring a huge screwup, Philadelphia wasn't pulling out the win. Regardless, Michael Carter-Williams still tried to score quickly, until he was called for traveling. After the turnover, his body language said fuck everything...
Lorde Live-Tweeting A Bulls Game Is Pretty Weird
Lorde has a weird intersection with the sports world it seems. Earlier, we learned an old photograph of George Brett inspired her song "Royals" and tonight she is at a Bulls game live-tweeting the action. She's basically just observing what is happening around her but when you take a step back and l...
Cubs Fire Team Psychologist Who Didn't Seem To Actually <em>Do</em> Anything
After five seasons, the Cubs have parted ways with team psychologist Marc Strickland, apparently over the initial protests of ownership. Now you might assume that Strickland was fired only because you can't fire an entire 40-man roster, but it sounds like Strickland was no ordinary shrink....