Earlier this week, the Phillies signed 1B Ryan Howard to a 5-year/$125 million contract extention. Howard’s current contract is not up until after the 2011 season, so his extention will take him through the 2016 season. In addition, the contract includes a team option for 2017 for $23 million or a $10 million buyout. I [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Cubs Sweep Brewers
April 26, 2010 – 5:18 am
It was a big weekend for the Cubs as they swept the Brewers in Milwaukee. It was the Cubs first series sweep of the year and helped to improve their season record to 9-11, good for second place in the NL Central. They currently trail the Cardinals by 2.5 games. The Cubs outscored the Brewers [...]
Blogosphere Very Angry At The Cubs
April 24, 2010 – 5:56 am
The blogosphere is not a very friendly place right now for the Chicago Cubs. Ever since the Cubs announced that they would be moving Carlos Zambrano to the bullpen, the majority of Cubs bloggers and commenters have been lambasting the decision. In essense, the argument being put forward by most people unhappy with the Zambrano-to-the-pen [...]
Cubs Move Zambrano To The Bullpen
April 21, 2010 – 5:08 pm
If today was April 1, I could see you thinking that the above headline is an April’s Fool joke (the fact that the season had not begiun yet on April 1 would be another big giveaway). However, it’s no joke. The Cubs brain trust (such as it is) has decided to move their supposed ace [...]
Is The Bullpen The Cubs Achilles Heel?
April 19, 2010 – 5:39 am
I keep telling myself that it is still very early in the year, but there’s no denying that the Cubs bullpen is not very good. And for it to get better, a lot of guys will have to step up and have career years. That’s easier said than done. While the starting rotation has been [...]
Racism In Baseball: Real or Imagined
April 16, 2010 – 5:30 am
I’m going to get serious for a change today and talk about subject that I find endlessly interesting as well as endlessly frustrating. Racism is a subject that transcends baseball, but baseball provides a platform where we can perhaps see racism more clearly and get our heads around it by looking at it on a smaller [...]
Chicago Cubs: The Most Expensive Ticket In Baseball
April 14, 2010 – 5:48 am
The Cubs may not have won a World Series in over one hundred years (had you heard?), but that’s not stopping the team from charging more for their tickets than any other team in baseball. This bit of “good” news comes to us from the good folks at Team Marketing Report. With an average ticket price [...]
One Week Does Not A Season Make
April 12, 2010 – 5:00 am
I can feel it already. It’s in the blog posts I read. It’s in the conversations I have. I hear it from the little voice in the back of my head. Even so, trust me. It is way too early to be panicking about the 2010 Cubs. Hey, I’m right there with you. I wish [...]
Cubs vs Braves: April 7, 2010
April 8, 2010 – 6:53 am
I attended last night’s Cubs game against the Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta. It was the second game of the season and I thought I would have trouble getting tickets. However, I was able to go on the MLB.com website and purchase two tickets 20 rows directly behind home plate. In fact, there appeared [...]
An Ugly Way To Start The Year
April 6, 2010 – 6:03 am
It only counts as one lose, but man that was an ugly way to start the 2010 season. For the first half inning, everything looked good, and then the foolish Cubs agreed to let the Braves bat. Things went down the drain quickly after that. I won’t pretend to take away anything from just one [...]
