Rick Morrissey

What, you expected the Cubs' sale to go smoothly? After the club's torturous playoff loss to the Dodgers, which brought on a great depression? While the U.S. financial system is...

Come with me now on a nostalgic journey back to a magical time for Chicago baseball fans. George W. Bush was president, a gallon of gas cost $3.65 and a...

A Chicago baseball team staring at a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five playoff series manages to avoid a teary surrender. No, really. It's a revolutionary concept, this idea that a...

This is a call to arms, a call to arms that are attached to hands that are attached to bats. This is an appeal to the White Sox to start...

The way things are going, White Sox fans soon will be able to fall back on their natural pastime: the intense enjoyment of watching the Cubs fall apart. That might...

Maybe if somebody had bribed a Tampa Bay player to challenge Javier Vazquez on Thursday, it would have made a difference. The fire and anger with which Rays reliever Grant...

There is a game Thursday, an important one, but before we charge headlong into it, can we stop one more time to appreciate what Jim Thome did Tuesday night and...

From afar, the crowd looked like an unruly assembly of witches, and the black towels the people waved might have been the fluttering of bat wings. The dark night --...

Everything is fresh now, new. Summer has given way to autumn. A cool wind blows leaves from trees and chases away bad thoughts. It's playoff time, finally, and the Cubs...

From afar, the crowd looked like an unruly assembly of witches, and the black towels the people waved might have been the fluttering of bat wings. The dark night --...