Cubs Desk Jockey

  Wow. There it is. My first tweet that broke the internet. And gee-wiz was it a throw-away tweet. I literally just looked up a picture of Tylenol PMs and tweeted from the comfort of my own bed. I wasn't even motivated enough to get up and take the photo myself. This obviously stems from the recent announcement that Tylenol causes autism if a mother takes it while they are pregnant, something that doctors were recommending for years. What do hundreds of scientists not see that RFK Jr sees? Who knows. What I DO know is that people responded to my tweet above with very calm and normal responses. So here are my top 5 responses from my very normal Twitter counterparts: (WARNING: I KNOW THESE ARE ALL MOST LIKELY BOTS. LETS JUST PRETEND THEY ARE REALY PEOPLE) 5.  Just a simple one to start off the Top 5 here, but comments like these are funny. I picture a person sitting in a coffee shop just being DEVASTATED at the thought of this tweet and just BEGGING God that this isn't real. I c...

The Chicago Cubs long history of honoring legends and fan favorites seem to be missing one guy in particular. In this blog, we are going to talk about the most polarizing superstar in the history of the Chicago Cubs…. Sammy Sosa. If you grew up a baseball fan in the 90s and 2000s, Sammy Sosa was one of the coolest names in sports. He seemed to be larger than life in Chicago with his towering homers, goofy antics and of course, the greatest homerun race in MLB history. However, Sosa was caught up in plenty of controversies, whether it was steroids or corking his bat; causing him to fall from the grace of being a fan favorite and that still hasn’t changed for a lot of Cubs fans in Chicago, including current Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Ricketts came out and said in 2018 that Sammy isn’t welcome back to the Cubs until he apologizes. With all of that being said, polarizing is clearly an understatement. Sammy always came with the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (THE GOOD) Personally, this might be ...

In 2014 I became obsessed with the Oscars. Since then, I rate every Best Picture Nominee from 0-100 and keep the scores in a Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gV8A6Z9s_PLAHB0hyisDXdHR3rrm6ixGCTrxmYhcUyk/edit I wrote about it here . If you don't want to learn everything about me and just want the score, here is how we score movies here: Great Movie, Would Recommend Them To Anyone  = 93-100 You Won't Be Upset You Watched It At All, But I Wouldn't Recommend It To Everybody = 86-92 That Was A Good Movie, But I May Never Think About This Movie Again = 80-85 Eh.... How Did THAT Get Nominated? = 70-79 I'm Pissed Off That I Watched That Whole Movie = 69 and Below Today's movie is Emilia Perez . From Wikipedia: A Mexican lawyer is offered an unusual job to help a notorious cartel boss retire and transition into living as a woman, fulfilling a long-held desire. First off, this is a spoiler review. I will give one paragraph of my quick thoughts with the sco...

For whatever reason in 2014, I became OBSESSED with the Oscars. Since then, I’ve been keeping a Google Sheet with all of my scores of every Oscar Nomination for Best Picture. I watch as many as I can each year, but some years I don’t get to all of them. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gV8A6Z9s_PLAHB0hyisDXdHR3rrm6ixGCTrxmYhcUyk/edit I love looking back at this list. I’m proud of this list. I feel so giddy and excited whenever somebody asks if I have any really good movie recommendations. I pull out my phone and show this list and go through all of my scores right in front of their face and say “Oh that’s a good one… oh shit that’s a good one…” over and over again. People love it. Scoring is 0-100, and I sort of look at it as grades in school. HOWEVER, I went to Catholic School my whole life and I am better than you for it. Some may not know this, but Catholic School’s letter grades are not the same as public schools. Does it make any sense for a Catholic school to do that? Prob...