The Brewers have cooled off a bit relative to their hot start to the season, ‘merely’ going .500 over their last 10 games. They’re down a few offensive weapons, with Aramis Rodrigo on the DL due to a hamstring injury and Carlos Gomez serving his suspension from last month’s brawl to take a few days to recover from some back …
Series thread for the inevitable ass-whuppin’ by the Cards
None of us have time for a proper series preview so this title by cubsnorkia (Rice Cube) will have to do. Enjoy the ass kicking. If that’s not enough, enjoy this nonsense by Alvin. All of BCB is melting down now. This isn’t even by Alvin: “Don’t think I can be a Cubs fan any more. They’ve let me down …
Series Preview: Cubes (12-21) at Barves (18-15)
Atlanta has been having trouble scoring runs this year, and is currently on a 2-8 skid that included sweeps by the Marlins and Giants. To get an idea of how awful the Braves offense has been, they have score 24 runs fewer than the mighty Cubs offense. Ouch. We could see less than 15 total runs scored this entire series. They’ve managed …
Series Preview: Chicago White Sox (15-17) vs Chicago Cubs (11-18)
As far as I can tell, the Crosstown Cup no longer has BP as a sponsor. Fear not, I’m sure we’ll find out tonight that the Cubs sold the naming rights to Donald Sterling two weeks ago. As awful as the Cubs have been this year, they only have a -6 run differential. The Phillies actually have a worse one …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (8-16) at Cincinnati Reds (11-14)
The Cubs haven’t been swept yet*, so, uh, I guess they got that going for them. The Reds do not enjoy this property, as they are coming off a sweep at the hands of the Barves. Sunday’s loss was capped off (well, pre-capped off) by ejections Reds manager Bryan Price and Homer Bailey, who was on one of his offdays, …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (7-14) vs Milwaukee Brewers (16-6)
The Cubs have yet to win a series this year, and now go on the road to face the team with the best record in baseball. I’m guessing the Cubs sweep, because that’s how baseball seems to work (laughing). Before the season, a lot of prognosticators picked the Brewers to be a much better team than I was expecting. They …
Series Preview: Worst Record vs Third-Worst Record
As you might have heard, it’s the 100th anniversary of the opening of Wrigley Field this week. Seeing how the two teams that are playing are in the bottom five of the standings right now, it’s no wonder that the Cubs have been using “Party of the Century” as their main marketing gimmick this season. On Wednesday the teams will …
Doubleheader Preview: Chicago Cubs (4-8) at New York Yankees (7-6)
Rain turned this short series into a day-night doubleheader. The two teams will meet again in mid-May, and hopefully we won’t have to get bummed out yet again by seeing Tanaka on the mound in a Yankees jersey. Aside from Tanaka, the Yankees also picked up Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann, Kelly Johnson, Brian Roberts, and Jacoby Ellsbury this offseason. I guess …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (3-6) at St. Louis Cardinals (5-4)
Hey, at least the Cubs aren’t in last place in the division (sort of)! Cincy also has a 3-6 record but has a slightly worse run differential. St. Louis is coming off a series win against those Reds, and get to feast on this Cubs team next. Given Matt Adams‘s emergence last season, Allen Craig has moved back to …
Series Preview: Pittsburgh Pirates (4-2) at Chicago Cubs (2-4)
These guys again? After taking the opening series from the Cubs, the Pirates went on to take two of three from the Cardinals. They beat up on Cards starter Shelby Miller in the first game, and the Cardinals returned the favor against Liriano in the second. They won a close game on getaway day with Edinson Volquez somehow outpitching Adam …