The Carlos Zambrano saga took another turn yesterday when the Cubs placed Big Z on the restricted list while he attends anger management training. The restricted list is used when players need to be away from the game for a reason other than injury or bereavement. Milton Bradley was placed on the resticted list earlier [...]
Tag Archives: Carlos Zambrano
Zambrano Does Milton Bradley Impersonation
June 27, 2010 – 8:24 am
As you can tell from my lack of posts recently, I am finding the Cubs circa 2010 to be nearly impossible to watch and comment on. The team is just completely uninteresting. They seem to lack fire and passion. However, there is one guy on the team who exhibits both fire and passion, but not [...]
Cubs Take Two-Out-Of-Three From Dodgers
May 28, 2010 – 5:22 am
The Cubs took two out of three from the Dodgers this week, bringing their record to 22-25. They now trail the Reds by 5.0 games for first place in the NL Central and are 4.0 games behind the second place Cardinals.
Derrek Lee continued his hot hitting going 7-9 in the series with the Dodgers. In the first game of the [...]
Cubs Sweep Rockies, Move Z Back To Rotation
May 19, 2010 – 11:46 am
It’s been an event filled few days for the Cubs. After losing two-out-of-three to the Pirates, the Cubs came roaring back to sweep the Rockies in a two game series at Wrigley Field. The Cubs got good pitching performances from Randy Wells and Carlos Silva in the two victories. Shawn Marshall also looked good in [...]
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 25-4 [...]
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 move [...]
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 [...]
What Can You Get For $140 Million?: Bringing It All Together
January 25, 2010 – 5:14 am
For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the Cubs roster to see how well Jim Hendry and the front office have done in spending nearly $140 million. To check out any of the previous posts, visit these links:
What Can You Get For $140 Million? (Introduction and Methodology)
What Can You Get For $140 Million?: [...]
What Can You Get For $140 Million?: Starting Pitchers
January 22, 2010 – 5:40 am
With the third highest payroll in baseball in 2009, the Cubs put together a roster that is arguably the worst of the top six spending teams in the Major Leagues. My complaint isn’t with the money they spent. A large market club like the Cubs with the high annual revenues they have should be one of the [...]
What’s Next?
January 8, 2010 – 9:00 am
It’s always seemed to me that the days following the World Series up until the end of the calendar year were the toughest for baseball fans. It was like an uphill climb. Once the new year started, it seemed like things accelerated. It was almost as if baseball (and it’s fans) were running downhill toward [...]
