Why You Shouldn't Mock a White Sox Fan

While White Sox fans and Cubs fans argue constantly over which team is better, and why the other team sucks so much, we still interact with each other as well. We're friends, and like friends tend to do, we make fun of each other. We also place bets with one another on whose team will fare better.

That happened between one Cubs fan and a White Sox fan earlier this season, when two neighbors made a friendly bet before the White Sox and Cubs squared off for a three game set at Wrigley...

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The Mystery of The Broken Pipe

Is it just me, or are we spending way too much time talking about the Cubs on this blog lately? We're one day away from the start of the NLCS, and instead of talking about the Phililes and Dodgers, we're reporting on every little thing the Cubs do. This needs to change, and I promise you FanHouse readers I'm going to stop writing about the Cubs for the rest of the week. Right after this post.

You see, apparently after the Cubs were finished getting swept by the Dodgers on Saturday night, somebody on the team did some damage in the visitor's dugout...

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Carlos Marmol Injured in a Car Accident

Could this week get any better for the Chicago Cubs? I mean, they got the snot beat out of them by the Dodgers in the first round of the playoffs, getting swept for the second straight year. It was a devastating blow to Cubs fans all over, as I have a few friends who have slipped into catatonic states over it, and has even caused some to put their loyalty up for auction.

Of course, if whoring yourself out isn't your style, you could always just do what everybody else is and blame Kosuke Fukudome. It can't be that the Dodgers were just the better team, after all, there has to be something to blame...

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Cubs Fan Selling Loyalty on eBay

As would be expected, Chicago Cubs fans haven't been the happiest people the last couple of days. You can't really blame them, as for the second straight year they had to watch their team have an excellent regular season only to be swept out of the first round of the playoffs. They've now lost nine straight postseason games, and they've now gone 100 years without a World Series title.

Of course, they wouldn't be so unhappy had the Cubs actually managed to put up a fight against the Dodgers instead of just rolling over...

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What Cubs Fans Can Expect From Me For Christmas

Are you looking for something to cheer up that depressed Cubs fan in your life? Are you sick of watching him sulk in a corner ever since the Cubbies were eliminated from the playoffs again on Saturday night?

Well then I've got some good news for you! Our old friend twoeightnine has created a new shirt just for that down in the dumps Cubs fan. I mean, what fun is losing for 100 straight years if you can't get a laugh out of it?



While I have to admit they were a lot funnier before the White Sox lost yesterday, they're still pretty funny. If you want one I'd move fast, because twoeightnine is only printing up 100 of these suckers to commemorate how many times it's happened again.

You can buy them here.

Alfonso Soriano Has Some Odd Excuses

Ever since the Cubs were swept out of the NLDS by the Dodgers on Saturday night, I've heard quite a few different excuses for their postseason collapse. First and foremost, there's the idiotic ones about the team being cursed, which we all know is a bunch of crap. Then there are some who just think that the team collapsed under the weight of a 100-year title drought.

While some of the excuses are viable, and others are just plain dumb, there's one explanation for the Cubs failures that rules the roost of ridiculousness...

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Paging Kosuke Fukudome, You're Hated

Life is not good for Kosuke Fukudome right now. The Cubs are down two games to none in their NLDS series against the Dodgers, he's hitless in eight postseason at bats, kids are getting in trouble at school for wearing his jersey, and those headbands fans used to wear around Wrigley are still being used, but by fans to hang themselves with.

To put it plainly, Kosuke's life just sucks right now...

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Dick Stockton Needs To Go

Okay, so I've spent a lot of time over the last two days watching playoff baseball on TBS, and while there are plenty of things I'm not too thrilled about with their coverage, for the most part it hasn't been half bad. The studio show with Ernie Johnson, Dennis Eckersley, and Cal Ripken is a bit unwatchable at times, but they're still getting the feel for each other, so there's a chance for it to get better.

A quick fix would be to replace Ripken with Charles Barkley, but I'm pretty sure that it would be impossible to get him away from whichever golf course/craps table he's frequenting at the moment...

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Cubs Fans Suing Each Other Over Playoff Tickets

As you know, Cubs playoff appearances are a rare and magical thing, and tickets to playoff games at Wrigley Field are in high demand. As is the case with most baseball teams, fans who own season tickets get the first crack at playoff tickets, but in a lot of cases, season tickets are shared amongst friends, family, or colleagues. It's a good way to minimize the cost of owning tickets for the individual.

Of course, when you share a season ticket package with somebody, or buy them off of somebody, it can lead to problems...

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Is Lou Piniella Ready to Retire?

After leaving the Tampa Bay Rays in 2005, Lou Piniella took a year off from managing baseball and spent his time occasionally working games from the broadcast booth for Fox. It was Lou's first year off of managing since 1989, and from what he said about the job at the time, he enjoyed his time away from the dugout.

Of course, in 2007 Lou got the itch to manage again when the Cubs came calling, and now he's led them to their second straight division title...

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This Budweiser Lawsuit Is For You, Cubs Fans

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From The Windup: The Cubs Are Going To Win The World Series

I remember back in May 2005, the Chicago White Sox were off to a fantastic start to the season. Halfway through the month they had a 29-12 record, and a 5 and a half game lead over the Twins. Most people don't believe me when I tell them this, but at that point, I knew the White Sox were going to win the World Series that season.

I didn't care that they hadn't won a title since 1917, or that they had only played the first quarter of the season. I knew that 2005 was going to be the year. It was at that point that I went to an online betting site and put money down on it at 15-1 odds. I wasn't risking a large sum of money, for I wasn't making these big time blogger dollars at the time, but it was enough to make their eventual championship all that much sweeter...

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The Cubs Have Clubhouse Envy

When the Cubs were forced to play two "road" games against the Houston Astros this week at Miller Park, they saw a side of the place they haven't seen before when in town to play against the Milwaukee Brewers. Instead of using the visitor's clubhouse, the Cubs were given access to the Brewers clubhouse, and they loved what they saw.

The loved it so much, in fact, that they're getting downright blasphemous...

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Lou Piniella In Line For Contract Extension

The Cubs magic number is at four, and considering they have a nine-game lead with only thirteen games left on the schedule, it's pretty safe to say they're going to win the NL Central and going to the playoffs for the second straight season. It would be the first time they've accomplished that since 1907.

So with that in mind, it's not exactly surprising that the Cubs are thinking about giving manager Lou Piniella a contract extension...

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Ozzie Guillen Knows How to Get Attention

The White Sox bullpen continued to kill them last night as the team dropped the first game of it's ten-game road trip to the Yankees 4-2 in the Bronx, and there's a good chance that if the Sox do miss the playoffs, it will be the bullpen's fault. Of course, even if they Sox do miss the playoffs, it's not like anyone in Chicago will notice.

That's because the Cubs are only a few days away from clinching the NL Central, and once that happens, everybody will forget the White Sox even exist...

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Lou Piniella Has Had Enough of This Losing

Over the last week and a half, I've been trying to tell my Cubs fan friends to relax. So the Cubs are going through a bit of a rough stretch right now, it happens to every team, and their lead is large enough to withstand it. I have to admit, though, I'm starting to get rather skeptical myself.

The Cubs lost again last night, their eighth loss in their last nine games, and now I'm wondering if we really are about to see another monumental Cubs collapse...

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Somebody Buy Lou Piniella A GPS

Following their 10-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds last night, the Chicago Cubs have now lost six games in a row. Not exactly a great thing for a team holding onto a division lead in September, but at the same time, it's the Cubs first real losing streak of the season. It was bound to happen at some point.

Things almost got a lot worse for the Cubs on Friday, because before they lost the game, they nearly lost their manager...

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Cubs To Start Brand Effen New Ad Campaign

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Koyie Hill Has a Bionic Hand

It's been a pretty remarkable season for the Chicago Cubs, as they currently own the best record in baseball and are a serious threat to end one hundred years of futility and win the World Series this October. Still, even with all the things the Cubs are doing in 2008, none of it matches what Koyie Hill has done.

The Cubs called Hill up to the club yesterday as part of the September call ups, but the fact that Hill is still even playing baseball is a miracle. After all, not many people return to the game after cutting off three fingers and a thumb in a table saw accident...

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Zambrano Warns Us Of The Dangers Of Gum

He was standing on the pitcher's mound at Wrigley Field yesterday afternoon, doing what he always does, shutting down an opponent. But as Carlos Zambrano stalked around the mound like a caged tiger preparing for the fifth inning, a grimace broke over his face. This tiger was in pain.

Immediately the Cubs trainer leapt from the dugout and sprinted to the mound to see what the problem was. As he ran out there, Cubs fans in Wrigley Field and around the world held their breath in terror...

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