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 ...