Rickettsville Grows
Hey, have you checked out the Wrigley Field webcam lately? As the Chicago Cubs construction crew scrambles to get the park ready for Monday’s Opening Night, you can see that the marquee is up and...
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Stuff to ask Tom Ricketts at the Cubs Convention
It’s almost time for one of the most fun Chicago Cubs fan experiences since the team won the 1908 World Series! That’s right, the Cubs Convention starts on Friday night, and team WSD will be in...
View ArticleDreamcast 49 (not 48): Rice is an Idiot
Alright, so I failed hard there because I forgot to put Episode 48 (see here) in the “Podcast” category, and mistakenly thought we were on 48 instead of 49. That’s pretty much Carlos Marmol, I guess,...
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Welcome to Rickettsville
Tom Ricketts, owner of the Chicago Cubs, today purchased three more Sheffield Rooftop businesses bringing his total to six that line that street; he also has a financial interest in a seventh. He now...
View ArticleThe One Where the Rooftops Pretty Much Gave Up (UPDATE)
I was busy trying to catch up with my TV viewing this week, plus family time, plus baseball, plus teaching…you know, life stuff…so we only did snippets of the story where a federal judge denied the...
View ArticleThe End of the Road?
There’s a scene from one of the Bad Boys movies (you know, the ones with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith) where the two heroes banter with each other and Marcus starts talking about Mike’s body count...
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The One Where the Wrigley Rooftops Are Broke-Ass Broke (UPDATE: Potentially...
I’m a bit sore from baseball practice, but I did have fun coaching and sitting in as the backup catcher (we still have to find a kid willing to take a few lumps as the true backup so we don’t ride the...
View ArticleThe One Where Tom Ricketts Just Writes a Big Check and Tells the Rooftops to...
I can’t watch Better Call Saul just yet, but will very soon; it reminded me how much I enjoyed the run of Breaking Bad and I spent part of my off period going through best-of clips on YouTube of...
View ArticleAs the luck changes…
Today marks the lunar new year, the first day of the Year of the Goat (or sheep, or ram, depending on your thesaurus use) in the Chinese Zodiac. With every new year (even if it’s in the middle of...
View ArticleThe (Cubs) Empire Strikes Back
I feel like total crap today because I most likely contracted the cold that my son got the other day and I feel like elephants are doing a can-can on my head. So today wasn’t as smooth as it could...
View ArticleSunday Clickbait
It’s Sunday, the day after Valentine’s Day, or as some would call it: Post by O Hell Nawl Blog. Ha! With less than a week to go before Chicago Cubs pitchers and catchers report (some of the boys are...
View ArticleThe Cubs Evening News
I’m sure most of you are happily digesting your dinners right now, so maybe you can relax with a book…or with this smorgasbord of random baseball tidbits. While I was still at school, Anno buzzed me...
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