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 [...]
Category Archives: Opinion
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cubs 2010 Spring Training: What Do We Know?
March 22, 2010 – 5:30 am
The Cubs are zeroing in on the end of Spring Training 2010, but there remain some unanswered questions. Today, I want to take a look and what we know and what we’re still trying to figure out. Starting Position Players The big news at the beginning of Spring Training was whether or not the Cubs [...]
Milton Bradley Just Can’t Stop Talking
March 10, 2010 – 9:56 am
Honestly, I’m a little tired of talking about Milton Bradley. While he was with the Cubs, he seemed to always be the topic of conversation. He not only was a distraction in the clubhouse, but he was a distraction to anyone writing about the Cubs. Unfortunately, Bradley is back in the news. Despite the fact [...]
Goose Gossage Is Still Full Of Himself
March 8, 2010 – 5:21 am
Joe Brescia of the New York Times interviewed Goose Gossage at Yankees Spring Training camp in Tampa. I was interested in reading the interview because Gossage is a colorful figure with a bloated sense of himself who’s not afraid to speak his mind. He’s usually good for one or two ridiculous statements.
