Garza and Cubs vs. Lilly and Dodgers (for 3 innings or so) 120 Comments
The Cubs are taking on the Dodgers today in the latest practice game. You can watch on WGN-TV, keep track on Gameday, or listen to the MLB broadcast in Gameday Audio. The ...
Kate Upton Dancing and a Cubs Bunting Tournament Update 121 Comments
I know everyone (particularly MO) is deeply concerned about how the bunting tournament is progressing, so here are the results as of a few minutes ago. I'd link to where I ...
Cubs Want to Get PAID For the Rights to Televise Them Lose Games 39 Comments
I've been a bit distracted lately as I've been thinking about cats again, but as we all know (I'm assuming), Spring Training is here!
With the bunting tournament in full ...
Cubs’ Training Facility in Dominican Republic Looks Freakin’ Sweet 104 Comments
Tom Ricketts keeps making it harder and harder to mock him. I mean, he pretty much shut us all up when he went out and hired away the top baseball executive available (and one ...
Garza Wants $10.225M, Cubs Offering $7.95M 84 Comments
Suddenly this afternoon, Jon Heyman’s Twitter feed was full of figures reflecting various arbitration-eligible players’ salary requests and their teams’ starting offers.
The ...
Cubs Fans Pissed About Plan That Has No Impact On Their Actual Lives 62 Comments
The 2012 Cubs Convention is in the books and probably the biggest revelation all weekend was that the Cubs plan to build a patio on top of a 70-foot LED display in the right field corner ...
Barry Larkin Voted Into Hall of Fame, BBWAA Tells All Others to GTFO 55 Comments
Barry Larkin joined the ghost of Ron Santo as the only inductees in the 2012 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Below are the final vote totals:
Barry Larkin 495 (86.4%)
Jack Morris ...
Cubs Close on Paul Maholm, Not So Much on Kerry Wood 94 Comments
Bruce Levine tweeted out the news that the Cubs were close to signing a pitcher! But it’s not Kerry Wood, it’s Paul Maholm. Ken Rosenthal has also now chimed ...
Cubs Mesh Corporate Sponsorship and a Veiled Reference to Pubic Hair Into Cubs Convention 127 Comments
The Cubs Convention is now a time-honored tradition almost as sacred in the world of Cubs fans as day baseball, the manual scoreboard, the ivy, the urinal troughs, and the years and ...
Forget Lunch, Kap is Interviewing Theo at Noon Today 156 Comments
Theo Epstein will be joining Dave Kaplan on WGN Radio for Cubs Corner today at Noon central time.
Kap’s tweet:
Cubs Corner airs live today at noon on @wgnradio when we are joined ...
Jerry Angelo Fired, Mike Martz Resigns, Cookie Monster Gets Giant Cookie 18 Comments
Because this day calls for it:
And this works too:
Cubs 2011 in Review: March 30 Comments
March came in like a lion with a bunch of errors and a dugout fight, and went out like a lamb, or as it is otherwise known, Koyie Hill’s batting average.
So let’s just get ...
Cubs 2011 in Review: February 48 Comments
2011 didn’t start on the highest of notes, but February brought the official start of Spring Training and the birth of the “Who owns the Cubs?” meme that has provided ...
Cubs 2011 in Review: January 22 Comments
I don’t think anyone could have predicted how the 2011 season played out for the Cubs. Sure, we all knew they would suck, but I don’t think anybody could have seen ...
Cubs Fantasy Camp Includes Buy One, Get One 11% Off Deal 67 Comments
All of you folks out there looking for some last-minute Christmas deals can just head on over to Cubs.com for the DEAL OF THE CENTURY!
Remember a couple of years ago when the Cubs started ...
Waiting for Yu 210 Comments
Someone please just hurry up and tell us Yu Darvish is not coming to the Cubs.
Cubs Seriously Debating Whether to Offer Koyie Hill a Contract 130 Comments
When the Age of Theo was ushered in, we thought that certain Cub traits would be washed away as the Superfriends were assembled. Surely, we all agreed, paying for guys who had ...
Chicago Media Mourns Bears Loss By Mocking Steve Bartman For Some Reason 111 Comments
How can you tell the difference between our local mainstream media writers and meatball sports radio callers? That’s not the start of a joke, I’m seriously asking.
Obviously, ...
Getting to Know: Ian Stewart 153 Comments
Name: Ian Stewart
Position: Third Base (probably)
Batting Order Position: I’d put him no higher than 7th, but we’ll see.
Bats/Throws: Left/Right
Opening Day Age: 27 (It ...
RED ALERT! Soriano Might Lead Off Some Games and Prove the Mayans Were Right! 58 Comments