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By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Stealing the summer headlines. Plus: Defending Kevin Durant; There Are No Mediocre Players In The NBA; Jordin Tootoo Is Not An Eskimo; The White Sox Are Winning Series’; The Cubs Turned Into A .500 Team Months Ago And Everybody Missed It.
Posted on July 8, 2016
By Dan O’Shea
Seven Cubs made the National League All-Star team. Seven. And all four infield starters will be Cubs – the first time that has happened in the NL in more than 50 years.
Are they all deserving of this honor? Let’s be honest: No. But, Cubs fans came out in force to vote.
Picking All-Stars in the fantasy baseball realm doesn’t come with such ballot-box stuffing. The numbers do most of the talking, and Yahoo! rankings do the rest.
Here’s a list of All-Stars based almost entirely on those rankings. I did fudge a bit in a couple of places.
Posted on July 8, 2016
By Jim Coffman
I liked the Denzel Valentine pick and I loved the Derrick Rose trade. But Rajon Rondo?
Really?
This is what NBA desperation looks like.
Who thinks this is a good idea besides Gar Forman? If it wasn’t bad enough that Rondo openly showed up coaches in both of his last two stops – Sacramento’s George Karl last season and Dallas’s Rick Carlisle the year before – and essentially quit the Mavericks in the middle of a playoff series at the end of the ’14-’15 season, he also forced an NBA referee to out himself last season.
Posted on July 4, 2016
By Marty Gangler
Can we all just pretend that the trip to New York was nothing but a weird dream? Can we just go along with our baseball lives as if none of that happened?
You know, like that one weekend where you went to New York with your friend and you did all that stuff that you aren’t proud of. Sure, you didn’t maim or kill anyone, but it did get a little dicey a few times. And your poor buddy Ken. I don’t think he’s ever been the same. Ah, Ken, that was just not good. But we can just forget about that, okay? Why can’t we all do that?
Let’s just focus on the games against the Reds. Because that makes everyone happy. Like after that weekend in New York when you really got your act together. You got a new job and you got into a healthy relationship for once.
Posted on July 4, 2016
By Roger Wallenstein
In this Jekyll-and-Hyde, manic-depression, alive-dead season, Sox fans can be excused if they’re just a bit confounded this Fourth of July. If Butch Cassidy were a Sox fan, he would likely ask, “Who are those guys?”
Winners of their last nine of 13 games, accounting for four consecutive series wins, can this be the same band of South Siders who previously dropped 26 of 36 decisions? Say it ain’t so, but it is.
Posted on July 4, 2016
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Chief Triangle now pigeon. Plus: The Blackhawks Are Making Me Dizzy; The White Sox Are Regressing To Mediocre; Remembering Da Co-Coach; and The Cubs Are A Crumbling Prison.
Posted on July 1, 2016
