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So Sorry, Sori
Having pointed out the errors of Alfonso Soriano’s ways, now I’ve seen my own. For that, I can only say, “So sorry, Sori.” All the time I was dogging him, I should have been di...
Pictures of Lilly
I doubt when members of the Who were penning the song, “Pictures of Lilly,” they had Theodore Roosevelt Lilly in mind. Then again, I wonder how many of us in Cubdom had heard of Ted Lill...
Dempster Does NostradamusPredicts Cubs Title
“Next year” is finally this year, and this year is sounding a lot like last year to this Chicago Cub baseball fan. Unbridled hope, a healthy disregard for reality and another Chicago Cub p...
History Joins Chicago Cubs for NLDS
Tonight, Arizona’s adopted baseball sons, the Chicago Cubs, invade Chase Field to face its homey D’Backs in the opening game of the National League Division Series. And whether Cubs’...
See You in October, Wrigley?
So this is it. The six-month marathon called the major league baseball season is in its final week. And wonder of all wonders, Chicago Cubs baseball heads into the regular season home stretch atop th...
Five Reasons Why the Chicago CubsCan Win the Central Division
Anyone who’s visited this blog during the 2007 season knows I haven’t always been the most sympathetic to Chicago Cubs baseball. There’s a good reason for that: I refuse to be anoth...
Chicago Cubs Clip Cards;Signals Changing of the Guard
After all the Chicago Cubs have given to baseball in 2007 - Sammy Sosa’s 600th career home run, Tom Glavine’s 300th career victory and a division race that looks like it’ll go down t...
Chicago Cubs Baseball: The Shy Suitors
If the World Series is the Grand Dame at major league baseball’s annual ball, then a division title must at least be her good lookin’ friends. Unless, it happens to be the National Leagu...
The Disgrace of the Franchise
No one can accuse Chicago Cub baseball fans as making the wisest of choices. If that were the case most of us would have abandoned Cubs baseball long ago. Say, somewhere right after the 1969 season....
Invasion of the Zambrano Snatcher
Have you see this Chicago Cubs pitcher? If so, please alert the Chicago Cubs baseball organization immediately. Carlos Zambrano, pictured on the left, has been missing in action for the last four wee...
Running with Clay Feet
Chicago Cubs baseball once again managed to misinterpret the Latin phrase “carpe diem” or “seize the day” to mean “crappy denim” or in Chicagoan, “mediocre sl...
Cub Will Ohman’s Five-Step Career Plan
Two left-handers could be making their season debut in different Cub uniforms tonight. One, Carmen Pignatiello, joins the Chicago Cubs baseball roster as a recent call-up from Triple A Iowa. The othe...
A Game of Feat, Not Flinches
While the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers are busy playing a game of “You can have it, we don’t want it” with the Central Division lead, there’s one team that wouldn’t...
Cubs Shaken, Not Stirred
Frankly, I don’t understand the hubbub over the Chicago Cubs “sudden” nosedive. Everyone remotely close to the organization, including manager Lou Piniella, acts surprised how Cubs ...
The Drama Club
Those of you tuned into Sunday night’s ESPN telecast of the Chicago-New York game were given a taste of everything baseball has to offer - excluding a Cubs’ win. There was plenty of drama ...
Cubs Go Back to the Future
My calendar says it’s August, so why are the Chicago Cubs playing baseball like they’re still stuck in May? This is no panic-button slappin’ or knee-jerk reactin’ to Cub reliev...
Avoiding the Google Eye
The Chicago Cubs have been warned. And indirectly so have we. Following Saturday’s 8-1 victory over Cincinnati’s Reds, Cubs baseball manager Lou Piniella admonished his club not to get &#...
Code Blue
I hope Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry is joking. Joking, I mean, about standing pat as the non-waiver trade deadline approaches. Because if Cubs management is serious about making a run for ...
It’s the Odds, Stupid
Call it Dame Fortune, blind luck or any other reference to the Gods smiling favorably, but for the last six weeks, Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella has been playing the hottest hand in Major League B...
Blood in the Water
Mark Grace has never struck me as one to mince words. Besides being one helluva ball player, Grace’s poignancy and blue-collar approach to the beautiful game of baseball has made him an endearin...
An Independence Day Fix
It doesn’t bother me the Chicago Cubs lost today. It only seems fitting that a team from our nation’s capitol, the Washington Nationals, would win today, on this the day of our country...
A Rocky Sweep
In the books it’ll go down as just another Chicago Cub sweep - 10-9, 8-5, 6-4. Game, set, match. But anyone who’s been paying attention over the past three days knows the Cubs sweep of Co...
A Sleeper at the Cell
Where's Michael Barrett when you need him? For a city sizzling for summer sports excitement, the interleague wrap-up between Chicago's Cubs and White Sox fell somewhere on the scale between a big yawn...
Squeezin' and Pleasin'
Chicago Cubs baseball manager Lou Piniella is a genius. Well, at least he was for today's game with the White Sox. According to my unofficial statistics, that makes exactly twice this season the Cubs...