Weekend Recap: Slapfighting the Rockies
Late-Season Non-Contending Baseball: CATCH THE FEVERWhen playing terrible baseball, it helps matters greatly to run into an equally terrible team during a homestand. With this great aid, and Chris...
View ArticleBrewers 15 - Cubs 4: The Joe Mather Show
This picture needs to go on a banner at Wrigley next year.Short recap for those of you in a hurry: Joe Mather pitched. That should tell you all you need to know about how the game went. 21 hits for the...
View ArticleCastro's New Contract: Now Official
Fresh out of my email inbox. SHIT YES.For all the people who have harped on Castro's mid-season slump and "lack of focus," I hope they remember that he's that rarest of Cubs - a system product at a...
View ArticleBrewers 3 - Cubs 1: Well, Now You're Just Screwing With Us
"Pay no attention to the scoreboard ... that's right, over here."Lazy Recap: Darwin Barney survived the most pathetic run of play I've seen all season to set the single-season NL record for errorless...
View ArticleWeekend Recap: Spoiler Alert
That whole Pirates playoff run was a cute idea, but ultimately doomed. Much like San Diego two years ago, a slumping borderline playoff team was run into the bansaw of a Cubs sweep. Pittsburgh is still...
View ArticleTonight: Cubs Social Media Night #2
Tonight the Cubs are throwing a second Social Media night. Following the success of the first one - at which I consumed FIVE Vienna Beef hot dogs - it was inevitable. For less than $20, you get...
View ArticleOn Chasing 100
I will not lie to you, dear readers. It is fucking hard to keep writing about a team inching toward 100 losses. Currently we're at 95 with 8 games left. I will be in attendance at fully HALF of the...
View ArticleRoad Games: Wasting Away in Phoenix
The bearded half of WAIW traveled to Phoenix on Friday for some nearly-forgotten 99 degree heat and late season baseball. As it happens, the Cubs put themselves in position for the massive 100-loss...
View ArticleCubs Baseball Ends Prematurely Again
Following a mid-day 5-4 win against the Astros, the Cubs season ended quietly while another team of castoffs in Oakland capped a 93-win season and a legendarily horrible franchise in Baltimore secured...
View ArticleBlogging Offseason Over: Offical 2013 Cubs Con Recap
Pictured: a roomful of people who will clearly never learn. Hi there. This, if you recall, is often a Cubs blog. Mostly during baseball season. Problem: winter coverage and "hot stove!" makes us...
View ArticleUndoing Prior Damage?
The site with which we fondly recall Mark PriorIn a bit of news so shocking, it inspired me to post for the first time since June 6, 2012 (lay off, blogging is hard work), the Tribune is reporting that...
View ArticleCubs 3 - Pirates 1: Baseball!
Then they chanted "first place" for six hours, as they had a premonition they'd better savor the time. Our long, baseball-less nightmare (WBC doesn't count) is finally over. We're now at the dawn of a...
View ArticlePirates 3 - Cubs 0: Ugly as Sin
Steve's text: "I never thought I'd long for a Patterson or a Pie." Patterson or Pie? That's scary to hear from my co-editor - real car-running-in-the-shut-garage talk. And yet what else would be a...
View ArticleCubs 3 - Pirates 2: MarMeltdown! (A Text Message Drama)
Kevin Gregg glasses added for effectYesterday was another whip-fast game of completely offense-less baseball. Pat and Keith kindly praised the pitching for both teams, as to reflect overly on the...
View ArticleVOTE PUB CRAWL!
Pub crawl?You bet your ass Pub Crawl. Cubs v. Nationals - May 11.More details to come.
View ArticleVote With Your Liver: A Guide to the 5th Annual WAIW Pub Crawl
It's that magic time of year again, WAIW devotees - Nine Bars. Nine Innings. We have, as it happens, been doing this now for one half of a decade. Which, evidently, was just enough time to finally...
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Mullens doesn't even have the Cubs game on. Aaaaand they're being shitty about it.
View ArticleAnnouncing: The 2014 Wrigleyville Pub Crawl
We know what you're thinking, sitting there in your fancy chair. "Whoa, WAIW updated. Must be time for another Pub Crawl!" You bet your ass it is, FancyChair. You bet your ass it is. Once again, it's...
View ArticleThe 2014 WAIW/Ivy Envy Wrigleyville Pub Crawl
Oh. Snap. It's time for the greatest event of your entire year - the 6th annual Wasting Away in Wrigleyville Pub Crawl. Meet us at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Lucky's Sandwich Company to lay a base worthy of...
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