Cubs Preview: No Curses, No Bad Apples, No Pressure = Playoffs

Last year the Chicago Cubs were single handily the most disappointing team in Major League Baseball. Going from a National League best 97 wins and a second straight division title to a disappointing 83 wins finishing second to their hated rival St. Louis Cardinals. The reason behind the drop in wins from year to year simply could be blamed the seventeen times the franchise had to put someone on the disabled list. Leading the league in injured players and still finishing with an above .500 record some would call miraculous and amazing but in Chicago it's just another example of "wait till next year."

So with that in mind as we progress toward the 2010 Chicago Cubs season, what is to come "next year?"

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White Sox Preview: No Playoffs = Ozzie Guillen Must Go

As winter turns to spring and the weather begins to warm, we inch closer and closer to the boys of summer returning to the ball field we all grew up playing on. The beginning of our true national past time is upon us once again here in Chicago as both teams from the north and south prepare for a six month battle to see who indeed will reign supreme.

Chicago baseball fans are not fans of failure and do not accept mediocrity when it comes to their baseball teams. This is a baseball town and for too long on both sides of town we find ourselves looking for the fall guy. We always look for someone to blame because in the last 92 years this town has only produced one world championship with two teams in competition. Expectations are always as high as any other town, but yet we always expect failure.

Simply put, if the White Sox do indeed fail this year by not making the postseason....Ozzie Guillen must go.

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Final Four Television Ratings Headed For Possible Disaster....ON CBS!

March Madness is indeed the prefect way to describe how this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament has shaped out. Between the buzzer beaters and underdogs performances, the parody of the sport has made for some fun television keeping the country entertained into the middle of the night. Now, we've arrived at the Final Four which kicks off on Saturday night in Indianapolis, Indiana.


As much entertainment as the first four rounds has provided us, this could end up being one of the least watched Final Fours of all time.

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Decision Time For Joel Quennevile....Start Antti Niemi

Ten games in 18 days.

Ten games to determine not only seeding in the playoffs for our Chicago Blackhawks, but also ten games to get some sort of momentum headed into the greatest playoffs in sport. Ten games to determine finally who indeed is going to lead this club in net and possibly be the famed "hot goaltender" of the playoffs. You would figure with his recent play that indeed Antti Niemi would be the "guy" moving forward because of his 7-2-2 record over his last 11 starts. You would figure that Antti Niemi would be the guy after getting the famed championship belt after shutting out the red hot Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday night.

Then why is head coach Joel Quenneville starting Cristobal Huet on Thursday in Columbus?

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Oney Guillen Is Not His Daddy And Needs A Reality Check....

While I am a fan of social networking and instant media, I know (like all of you) that there are certain lines you cannot cross when tweeting or posting your opinion on certain matters. If there is one thing we have learned in the last 10-15 years of the digital age, its that everything we do online is always being monitored by someone. In fact according to a American Management Association/ePolicy Institute survey from 2007, two-thirds of employers monitor their employees' internet use.

So how come Oney Guillen feels he is a victim here with the latest edition of White Sox Twitter-Gate?

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Tiger Woods Back At Masters After Miracle Therapy Sessions

Tiger Woods is coming back!!

All together now...

"Hooray For The PGA!!"

Not even one month after admitting to the world that he was selfish and felt the rules of life did not apply to him, Tiger is returning to the safest place possible for his probable return....Augusta, GA. It's interesting to me that Tiger chooses the same golf course that did not admit a African American golfer till 1990 as the "safe home" for his return. The same golf course which still refuses to admit female golfers as members is the place where golf's greatest professional is to make his return from his recent personal asylum.

Nothing against Augusta, but the timing of today's announcement of Tiger's return proves his "statement" to the world was nothing more than a big fat lie.

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How The Amateur Fills Out A March Madness Bracket.....

I love March Madness for the simple fact that it's one of a few sporting events that everyone (and I mean everyone) gets into. Everyone has a team they root for whether they watched a single second of the season or followed it hardcore all season long. Everyone will fill out a bracket for the office pool laying a Lincoln on their picks, and more often than not "Mr. College Basketball" gets beat by Julie who concentrates more on her nails than her paperwork.

That's really why they call it March Madness!!

Now I don't claim to be a NCAA hoops expert of any kind. Much like you I start to get into the sport of college basketball right around the conference tournaments and my NCAA buzz is at it's peak at the first weekend. March Madness is really the only playoff type system where my buzz is higher at the beginning and dwindles away slowly each round.

So like you I filled out my bracket this morning after watching the same selection show you did, reading the same "experts" picks you did, and hearing what all the talking heads had to say. So here is how I (a college basketball amateur) picked the first round of my bracket.

Does my logic fit or am I a complete idiot?

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