wastingawayinwrigleyville.blogspot.com - 7/3/2009
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We at WAIW are lucky enough to be acquainted with the operators of a bunch of excellent Cubs blogs. Every Friday throughout the 2009 season, we're going to bring as many of them as we can together to share their thoughts on being Cubs fans. This week - the greatest games of our respective ...
Investigative Journalism: WAIW Drinks a Lot of Beer With Authors (Part 1)
wastingawayinwrigleyville.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — The best part about writing WAIW week in and week out is getting good baseball and/or drinking stories from other Cubs fans. We've been pimping that idea pretty hard this year, running the WAIW Roundtable on Fridays and sticking to a horrifyingly irregular schedule of in-depth interviews with ...
Meet Your Latest Attention Whore Cubs Fan
hirejimessian.com 7/22/2009 — What is it about the Cubs that inspires their fans to make themselves a bigger spectacle than the team itself? Whether they’re coming up with stupid slogans , sucking dick for crack in full Cubs uniform , charging the bullpen, or asking the team to mend their broken hearts , some of them ...
WAIW Cubs Blog Roundtable, Week 11: Frank's Wild Years
wastingawayinwrigleyville.blogspot.com 6/5/2009 — Okay, maybe I'm stretching the plausibility of the title somewhat to get in a Tom Waits reference, but it's Friday, and last night's game was rained out. In Atlanta, of all places - a city that has been under dangerous drought conditions for years. Can't begrudge that, I suppose. And I will of ...
Investigative Journalism, Part 3 of 4: Cubs Fan Psyche, Uncle Ernie, and Malort
wastingawayinwrigleyville.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — Today we return with the third part of our interview with authors Donald Evans and Don DeGrazia. You can find part one here and part two here . As you may or may not have noticed, Steve hasn't asked a question once to this point, because as much as I like to talk, I really start running my mouth ...
Some Truly Amazing Cubs Stats
thefriendlyblogfines.com 6/25/2009 — As we have all watched all season, this Cubs offense has really struggled to put runs on the board this year. More than anything though they have struggled to get any sort of hit with runners in scoring position. It seemed to me watching the games ...
Why Bad Statistics About The Cubs Offense May Actually Be Good Statistics
notqualifiedtocomment.com 6/25/2009 — Everyone knows the Cubs offense has been mostly dormant this season. Although bullpen problems have been a big issue, the Cubs need to be able to score runs to even put the bullpen in a position to blow the game. What has seemingly ailed the Cubs much of the season is something Bob Brenly ...
Best. Birthday. Ever.
424tales.blogspot.com 6/23/2009 — Today is the 25th anniversary of one of the best days of my life up to this point. Of course, every Cub fan knows that June 23, 1984 was The Sandberg Game, but it also happened to be my twelfth birthday. My present that year was to go to the game on my birthday with my Dad. I had moved to ...
Cubs Sweep! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kerry Wood.
collegeofidiots.com 6/22/2009 — When COI last left the Cubs, we were crying in our collective Lagunitas Hop Stoopid's (the Official Beer of COI), and hoping that JDot could break his curse of 13 loses in a row and that the Cubs could avoid being swept by the dreaded Meth Heads. Wow! What a difference a weekend makes. Similar ...
Interview with the Baseball Gods
424tales.blogspot.com 7/9/2009 — Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time, while probably getting driven irreparably insane, will also know that I can not be considered a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. So, you can imagine how thrilled I am to have landed the biggest Cubs interview since Kellie Pickler ...