Former Dodgers GM Ned Colletti Still Going Strong
Most people might remember Ned Colletti as the General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. But this most accomplished veteran was also a PR director and contract negotiator for the Chicago Cubs, Assistant General Manager of the San Francisco Giants, analyst on Dodgers’ TV, New Times best selling author, instructor at Pepperdine university and oh, […]
Jim Deshaies Loves Being Part Of Cubs TV
Chicago Cubs broadcaster Jim Deshaies is not an oddball, but he’s done some odd things during his long career in the game of baseball. He once put a curse on Jack Murphy Stadium, the previous home of the San Diego Padres. “We had lost 11 consecutive games there. There was book store nearby and there […]
Former Cubs Outfielder Doug Glanville Loves New Media Roles
Doug Glanville is not your run of the mill ex-major leaguer. Far from it. While being an analyst on ESPN Radio’s Sunday Night MLB broadcasts and working for the Marquee Network in Chicago, where he analyzes the Cubs and has his own show, Glanville is an astute individual with driving passions. “I still stir the […]
ESPN’s Jon Sciambi Equally Loves Cubs Role
The most famous “Boog” most heard of growing up was John “Boog” Powell, the hulking first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles in the 1970s. But, there’s this generation’s “Boog”- Jon “Boog” Sciambi, the outstanding play by voice of the Chicago Cubs and ESPN Baseball. Sciambi is himself hulking and a man with a passion for […]
Seattle Mariners Voice Rick Rizzs Still Going Strong Five Decades In
Imagine replacing an icon. Rick Rizzs did and it wasn’t pleasant. He left Seattle, where he was calling Mariners games, for Detroit where hall of famed Ernie Harrell was unceremoniously let go. It didn’t sit well with Tigers fans. “That’s was one of the toughest things I ever had to do in my life They […]
Former World Series Winning Manager Ozzie Guillen Still Not Holding Back
He once called Magglio Ordonez a Venezuelan piece of s&!t. He also said the toughest man he knows is Fidel Castro. But, Ozzie Guillen guided guided the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series title in 88 years and remains an extraordinarily popular man among White Sox fans. Why you ask? Consider he was […]
Fox Sports/Chicago White Sox Broadcaster Jason Benetti Is Amazing Story
Jason Benetti can best be described as a renaissance man. While he’s the relatively new breed of sports broadcasters including Joe Davis, Adam Amin and a few others, he not only understands history, he embraces it. Case in point in part one of this absolutely wildly entertaining episode, Benetti draws on part of his personality […]
Cubs World Series Winning Manager Joe Maddon Shoots Straight
What happens when you write a popular book about yourself but also critical of the game that fed you? Joe Maddon is finding out, while he was aware his book, “The Book of Joe: Try Not to Suck at Baseball & Life” could prevent him from managing again. “I’d like to manage again but there’s […]