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Nuts on Clark? and other randomness
Tim doesn't really like Clark. He's not alone. I like the move, but that's me. I like the thought of appealing to kids because they're too young to know any better than to cheer for the Cubs. The...
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Ten Reasons I’m Watching The 2014 Cubs
EMILIO! (photo h/t zimbio.com) The last time I posted here, the dinosaurs roamed the earth the Cubs were still in the hunt for the NL pennant I swore I didn’t care about the 2014 Cubs. I said there...
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DFP: Missing Game 6
It’s funny. I deleted a post I was writing this week about appreciating the moment, appreciating what we have right now. It was about Javier Baez, the Cubs as they are, and life. Too preachy, too...
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How Far Have the Cubs Come?
So far, Soler . . . so good. It has been almost three years, nearly three hundred losses, and three drafts since the Cubs hired Theo Epstein to save the Cubs from their sins and rescue them from...
View ArticleTen Changes Rob Manfred, the MLB Players Union and Owners Should Enact Ten...
http://gty.im/52444340 It’s been almost a month since Rob Manfred discussed the possible, out-there, well-maybe-I-would-do-this-if-I-got-really-drunk-at-a-party changes with Karl Ravech. (Don’t worry,...
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Kris Bryant: Starting Center Fielder for Your Chicago Cubs
Fun with a C(apital) F. (photo courtesy of @cubs) Kris Bryant is the Cubs’ starting center fielder, because Joe Maddon. The Cubbie palm may have to come off the Cubbie face very shortly. I can’t bear...
View ArticleThe 2015 Chicago Cubs: This Won’t Be a Nice Season
2015 had a chance of being a feel-good season for the Chicago Cubs, but that can’t happen now. Back when Kris Bryant was making a long-shot case for an All-Star berth and Kyle Schwarber was pretending...
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Why MLB’s Wild Card System Is Far From Broken
Cubs Ace Jake Arrieta trumps all in the upcoming wild card showdown with Pittsburgh, and one game should be plenty for Cubs fans and baseball fans in general. The Cubs, Cardinals, and Pirates have...
View ArticleCastro: Ramirez Called Me After Benching
Despite the fact that many Cubs fans (and mustachioed commentators) love to hate Starlin Castro in the same, definitely-not-racist-at-all way they hated Aramis Ramirez, they're two of my favorite...
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Daily Facepalm, 10.14.2015 – Random NLDS Championship Observations
(dying laughing) at the Oakland Athletics twitter account for posting this video last night. .@kschwarb12's home run just landed… in Oakland. @Cubs @MLB https://t.co/62SVMxsQ9H — Oakland Athletics...
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The Gospel According to Joe (or How to Be a Cubs Fan in the Maddon Era)
It's the problem we always wanted to have, but now that it's here, the challenge of handling success has many Cubs fans and media members perplexed. As Cubs fans, we don't have a lot of experience in...
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Daily Shrug Random Hot Stove Open Thread Edition
Eh. 2016 wasn’t that long ago. Let’s not get all worked up over winning all the time. David Ross is rumored to be the new Cubs manager, according to anonymous sources attending the press conference...
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The Cubs’ Legacy of Bad Baseball Now Extends to Bad TV Business
The Cubs just signed a deal to include the Marquee Sports Network on Hulu’s Hulu+Live option inside the Cubs’ broadcast market. That, along with the addition of AT&T NOW, marks basically the first...
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Speaking of weird seasons
Ron Cey, one of 52ish World Series co-MVPs in what was, up until now, the weirdest season in MLB history This was originally going to be a preachy post about how MLB owners are the ones who should be...
View ArticleWho Owns the Cubs?
Have we gotten to the bottom of this question, yet? Six years into its history (somehow that bit of canon came from the first half of its virtual existence), the Orthodox Church Of Cubs Baseball...
View ArticleIs MLB’s Postseason Broke? Let’s Fix it Anyway.
As I type this post, the Yankees (99-63) and Guardians (92-70) are warming up for the deciding Game 5 in the ALDS to determine who will get the opportunity to face Houston (106-56), the top seed and...
View ArticleHow to compete for the World Series in 2023
Even though the postseason format will be virtually unchanged, the 2023 MLB regular season is going to look a whole lot different, and the scheduling changes could make the postseason even fairer and...
View ArticleCorrea to the Giants
We didn’t need a banging garbage can to see this coming. Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a 13-year, $350 million deal with a full no-trade clause giving the free-agent...
View ArticleDon’t give up. Or do, I can’t tell you what to do.
The Cubs are as on the brink of elimination as they can be. That the E hasn’t been posted next to their name in the Wild Card standings entering the penultimate game of the season is bittersweet. This...
View ArticleCody vs ACME: Will Cubs Delete Playoff Hopes?
What’s worse than being a Cubs fan with a World Series addiction? How about being a Looney Tunes fan with a hankering for new movies. Today we heard reports Warner Bros. is shelving straight-up...
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