By Marty Gangler

The most interesting thing that’s happened lately to the Cubs has nothing to do with the Cubs. It has more to do with the Dodgers and Red Sox, but it certainly relates to the Cubs. What is becoming clearer is that teams in major markets make an ass-load of money.
The Dodgers proved that as a team that somehow could barely make payroll last season went out and got a quarter-billion dollars worth of contracts. Do they do that if they couldn’t make that back somehow?
And what about the Red Sox? A team that could take on that kind of payroll just decides to give up on the cornerstone of the deal (Adrian Gonzalez) and throw in a few other horrible contracts.
So how does this relate to the Cubs?

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Posted on September 3, 2012

By Roger Wallenstein

“Buen trabajo, mi amigo,” Ozzie Guillen might have texted to fellow countryman Miguel Cabrera after Saturday’s 5-1 pasting of the White Sox as the lame Cabrera had three hits and drove in a couple of runs. “Two bad ankles, but, hey, it’s a big series. You showed ’em, kid.”
When Ozzie was guiding the Sox, he made no secret of his friendship and admiration for the Tigers’ MVP candidate. I never quite understood that. After all, since he joined the Tigers in 2008, the Sox have had little luck getting Cabrera out. He absolutely slays our team.
To think our (former) manager was pals with the guy rubbed me the wrong way. I much preferred his relationship with another Venezuelan, Magglio Ordonez, who played for Detroit after his days with the Sox. Ozzie once called him “a piece of shit.”

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Posted on September 3, 2012