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White Sox Announcer: "We Have No Budget Left For The Second Half Of The Season"While discussing how he bribed people to say nice things to color man Steve Stone on his birthday during the top of the first inning of tonight’s tilt against the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti admitted that the team had run out of money for the announcing team to...

White Sox Trade Ace José Quintana To—Oh Fucking Come OnThe Chicago White Sox announced today that they have traded 28-year-old ace pitcher José Quintana to the fucking Chicago Cubs, who are basically worse than the St. Louis Cardinals at this point....

Suicidal Squirrel Takes Down Squirrel-Hating Chicago PoliticianHoward Brookins can’t stand squirrels....

In A Slushie Cup, A Rat

A Chicago-based challenger to Pizza Rat was tragically snuffed out before it could even garner any fame on the internet. Rest in peace, Slushie Rat. If only you hadn’t scrabbled for whatever substance was at the bottom of that plastic cup....

Actually, Hurricane Katrina Was Not Super Cool

If you squint hard enough at this nasty number from last week, in which the Chicago Tribune’s Kristen McQueary wrote glowingly of the great civic good Hurricane Katrina visited upon the city of New Orleans a decade ago and of her fervent desire for Chicago to meet a similar fate, you can almost inte...

​Heroic Chicagoan Escapes Tyrant Tow Truck 

We are all born into and struggle against the confines of a system that denies our individuality and seeks to limit us. Some struggle more effectively than others....

Wrigley Field Is Fucked

This off-season marked the start of a long, expansive, expensive, and arguably unnecessary renovation project at Wrigley Field, which was supposed to be completed over the course of four off-seasons and leave the stadium fully operational during the summer. According to Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, t...

Chicago Sports Radio Guys Take To Twitter To Discuss Reporter's Breasts

Matt Spiegel and Dan Bernstein work for 670 The Score in Chicago. Spiegel has a radio show; Bernstein has a column, a radio show, and hot takes on Derrick Rose. Wednesday night, the two took to Twitter to discuss CSN Chicago reporter Aiyana Cristal. The conversation started with Spiegel expressing p...