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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...
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Brewers 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...
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Castro'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...
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Brewers 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...
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Weekend 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...
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Tonight: 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...
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On 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...
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Road 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...
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Cubs 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...
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Blogging 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...
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Undoing 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...
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Cubs 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...
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Pirates 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...
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Cubs 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...
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VOTE PUB CRAWL!
Pub crawl?You bet your ass Pub Crawl. Cubs v. Nationals - May 11.More details to come.
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Vote 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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