I haven’t written much in the past week. I thought about writing some doom and gloom after the team lost two-out-of-three to the hapless Astros last weekend. I felt better on Monday when the Cubs beat the Pirates for the first time this season in Pittsburgh. My joy was short-lived as the Cubs stumbled into [...]
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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 Lose…And I Was There
May 10, 2010 – 6:11 am
I spent yesterday in Cincinnati with a couple of friends sitting 12 rows behind the Reds dugout while watching the Cubs lose to the Reds for the second day in a row. It was also the fifth loss in six games for the Cubs. Not a fun road trip.
The Cubs loss in Cincinnati was eerily similar [...]
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 [...]
Dealing With The Winter Doldrums
January 5, 2010 – 6:33 am
I really hate this time of year. It’s cold, the days are often grey, and worst of all, there’s no baseball. I watched the 10-part Ken Burns Baseball documentary the other night. It made me miss baseball even more. My wife turned on Field of Dreams last night and I refused to watch it.
Cubs Winter Meetings: Day 1 Recap
December 8, 2009 – 6:18 am
There was a lot of talk at the Winter Meetings for the Cubs, but not much action. There was a lot of talk about Milton Bradley, but he’s still on the roster at the moment. Jayson Stark of ESPN.com Tweets that a potential deal between the Cubs a Rays that would send Bradley to Tampa [...]
Cubs Involved In Several Trade Rumors
November 22, 2009 – 11:42 am
The Cubs have been involved to one extent or another in several trade rumors so far this off season. The most persistent rumors revolve around trading Milton Bradley.
Last week, Chicago Tribune columnist Phil Rogers wrote on ChicagoBreakingSports.com that the Cubs were involved in discussions over a three way trade that would send Bradley to Texas, [...]
