Tag Archives: Colorado Rockies

More Milton Bradley News

The Cubs lost last night to the Brewers 3-2, but stayed 7.5 games behind Colorado, who lost to San Diego 6-3.  The Cubs start an important (it makes me feel better to believe that the games are important) four game series tonight in San Francisco.  The Cubs are currently 3.5 games behind the Giants in [...]

Bradley Suspension Dominates News

The suspension of Milton Bradley by Cubs GM Jim Hendry continues to be the big story surrounding the Cubs.  Even as they beat the Brewers last night 10-2 to pull to within 7.5 games of idle Colorado in the Wildcard race, the focus remained on Bradley’s suspension.
Hal Bodley of MLB.com weighed in to express his [...]

Cubs Suspend Bradley for the Rest of the Year

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 [...]

Cubs Lose (Again) to Cardinals

I’ve gotten to the point in the Cubs season where I don’t even get upset anymore when they lose.  Sometimes I think it is injuries that killed the team, other times I blame it on underachieving players.  It’s a mix of both I suppose, but does it really matter?  The result is the same.
The Cubs [...]

Cubs Lose Heartbreaker to Cardinals

The Cubs game against the Cardinals started out good, but ended horribly for the northsiders.  In the first inning, the Cubs scored two runs off of John Smoltz on consecutive doubles by Kosuke Fukudome, Derrek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez.  Unfortunately, that was all of the offense the Cubs could muster all night.
The Cardinals tied the [...]

Cubs Drop Two-Out-Of-Three to Milwaukee

The Cubs lost the rubber game of their series with Milwaukee yesterday by a score of 7-4.  Randy Wells looked tired, Milton Bradley reminded us why we dislike him so, and the team generally failed to rise to the occasion.
With the loss, the Cubs drop to 7.0 games behind Wildcard leading Colorado with just 18 [...]

Cubs Go For Series Win Against Milwaukee

The Cubs have split the first two games versus Milwaukee and will go for the series victory this afternoon at Wrigley.  Randy Wells will go up against Dave Bush (4-7).
The Cubs are 7-3 in their last 10 games and 4-2 during this homestand.  They’ve gained in the Wildcard standings and are now 6.5 behind Colorado, but just [...]

Will Cubs Resign Harden?

The Cubs got down early in yesterday’s game thanks to three errors in the fourth inning.  They came back to tied the game 5-5 in the 7th inning, only to have Carlos Marmol allow two runs in the 9th to hand the game to the Reds. 
If Marmol is the heir-apparent to the closers role in [...]

Who Will Bat Leadoff For Cubs in 2010

First, let me say that I was right.  Ah, that feels good. 
I originally reported that Alfonso Soriano would have surgery on his ailing knee and would be out the rest of the year.  Then, Gordon Wittenmyer chimed in and said that Soriano would be back before the end of the month and would wait until [...]

Is Blanco the Future Cubs Shortstop?

In case you missed it, Cubs SS Andres Blanco made a spectacular play this past weekend on a ball hit by the Mets Jeff Francoeur.  The fact that Blanco was able to field the ball at all was impressive, but his throw to first was just out of this world.
My buddy Joe Posnanski (truthfully, I [...]