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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....
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 ...
The Cubs’ Miracle Wood
The Chicago Cubs have found themselves a miracle. I call it Miracle Wood or Wood for short. It’s not a substitute for Sammy Sosa’s corked bat, nor is it a carpenter’s dream. It cer...
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...
Cubs Weekly Report Card:06.25 to 07.01
Judging by the way the month began, who would have guessed the Chicago Cubs would have finished June with their best month of baseball in 2007? For that matter, who would have guessed the Cubs could ...
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...
Sammy's Whammy
Sammy Sosa's like a bad penny when it comes to Chicago Cubs baseball. You know the kind. No matter how many times you make change, at the end of the day you find that same beat-up penny in your pocke...