Usually, the first game of the World Series is a celebratory occasion, especially for the participating teams; doubly for the team with home field advantage. However, as the world gets more insane, the World Series isn’t immune, especially when a man makes an ass of himself in this age of #Metoo. American League Champion Astros’ […]

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I’m going to come out and say it – I don’t give a damn about arbitrary deadlines. Occasionally, I have donated money to charities and political campaigns, usually to the Left of the political spectrum, and I do understand the rules in the current Democratic debate guidelines that you have to have raised so much […]

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When one becomes rich, I guess there’s a break between two types: those who want everyone to know who they are, and those that don’t. If you are in the former, you want to be seen, and known and quoted, and the easiest way to become a celebrity is to own a sports franchise. Besides […]

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Sometimes, I think that people are stupid or oblivious, or just don’t get it. Instead of celebrating the start of Spring Training! the Chicago Cubs have been deflecting bad publicity. The fallout from last year’s Addison Russell wife beating incident, MLB suspension, but continued support from the team is bad enough. Then, racist emails to […]

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Along with brain injury/CTE, the NFL has a big image problem – players committing domestic abuse. It’s bad enough from the league’s standpoint that it happens, it’s worse when it’s filmed and in this day that smartphones and social media allows for every human event to be captured and shared with the world, this is […]

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I have always been a bit indifferent to announcer Bob Costas. He did a decent job covering everything for NBC from football to the Olympics, to, it seemed, dog shows. He was omnipresent but basically innocuous to me. I hardly ever watched “Later,” his interview program in part because it was on late, and mostly […]

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The ownership tenure of the Ricketts family has been full of ups and downs. Of course, they brought the team’s first championship in over a century to the North Side. They have also instituted needed renovation of Wrigley Field and are in the process of building a “Cub Mall” around the park where concessions and […]

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