Dear Santa:
Please disregard my previous letter. The problem I told you about has been taken care of, so I’d like to revise my wish list for this Christmas.
As I admitted in my previous letter, I have not been a good boy this year. I traded Mark DeRosa (one of our most popular players), let Kerry [...]
Category Archives: Off Field Antics
The Death of The Florida Winter League
November 24, 2009 – 8:11 am
Cubs news is a bit slow right now (the calm before the storm?), so I decided to share a few thoughts about a subject I’ve been interested in for quite some time.
Every winter, MLB teams send some of their prospects to winter league teams in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and throughout the Caribbean. For instance, the Cubs Jeff [...]
Cubs Suspend Bradley for the Rest of the Year
September 21, 2009 – 7:47 am
Saying he could no longer tolerate the disrepect Milton Bradley was showing to fans and media personnel, Cubs GM Jim Hendry suspended the troubled outfielder for the remainder of the season. The final straw appeared to be comments Bradley made in an article written by Bruce Miles of the Daily Herald and reported in this [...]
Lou’s The Least Popular Manager in Baseball
July 2, 2009 – 8:12 am
A big hearty congratulations goes out to Cubs skipper Lou Piniella today. In a survey done by Sports Illustrated (and reported here in the Chicago Tribune), Piniella was voted the manager MLB players would least like to play for. Piniella garnered an impressive 26% of the vote. His closest rival was White Sox manager Ozzie [...]
Jason Stark Weighs in On The Cubs
June 26, 2009 – 7:58 am
The Cubs lost again to the Tigers. I don’t want to talk about it.
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Today, I want to talk about a colum that Jason Stark has on ESPN.com. In it, he has a few things to say about the Cubs. First he talks about the Cubs offensive woes. Here’s what he has to say:
Who bat-napped the Cubs’ [...]
Cubs Win Again in Walk-Off Fashion
June 20, 2009 – 8:45 am
For the second day in a row, the Cubs won a game with a hit in their last at-bat. Two days ago, the victory came against the White Sox when Alfonso Soriano drove home Reed Johnson for the winning run on a bloop single into right-center field in the bottom of the ninth. Yesterday, the Indians [...]
Cubs Get New Hitting Coach
June 15, 2009 – 8:15 am
The Cubs have been having trouble scoring runs this year so they made the only move the could make. They fired hitting coach Gerald Perry and replaced him with Triple-A hitting coach Von Joshua. The move immediately paid off as the Cubs went out and beat the Twins 3-2 to salvage the final game of [...]
Cubs Building A Good Football Team
June 14, 2009 – 11:38 am
As a high school senior, Glenn Cook dreamed of playing football for the University of Miami. When he commited to play for the Hurricanes, he commited himself to being the best football player he could be. He even gave up playing baseball to devote himself fully to football.
Cook played for four years at Miami, playing linebacker [...]
Cubs Draft — Day 3
June 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm
We finally reached the end of the MLB Rule 4, first-year player draft. Here’s who the Cubs picked on Day 3:
Rnd/Overall Player School Position
31/950 Andrew Clark University of Louisville 1B
Note: Former Indiana High School Player of the Year
32/980 Trey McNutt Shelton State CC RHP
33/1010 John Lambert North Carolina State LHP
34/1040 Rett Varner University of Texas-Arlington [...]
Cubs Draft – Day 2
June 11, 2009 – 8:47 am
Man, it seems like the baseball draft goes on forever. I know it’s only three days — and we’re only through the second day — but it just seems to last a long time.
By all accounts, the Cubs had a very good day two at the MLB draft. I have to admit I don’t know [...]
