OSS: Cubs offense picks up Cubs defense in the late innings Three up: Three down: Next up: The Cubs open at home vs the Rockies, assuming the weather cooperates. New Cub Shōta Imanaga takes on ex-Cardinal Dakota Hudson at 1:20 CT on Monday.
Welcome Ben Brown
As you all know, Justin Steele got hurt and now a new guy gets his spot: Naturally the Cubs will have their official social media tweet soon, but this has been confirmed by multiple Cubs beat folks so we should expect Ben Brown in uniform sometime soon, possibly even tonight if he got to town soon after Steele got off …
Cubs Opening Day 2024 Game Day Thread
It’s Opening Day, y’all. Time will tell if we go 162-0 or 0-162 after tonight, but enjoy it, jabronis.
Dreamcast 85: Unchecked Optimism
We’re mere hours from Opening Day if you consider anything less than 48 “mere,” so it’s time to do our season preview episode! In this edition: We’ll probably talk about the MLBPA snafus later on after we get a few games that actually count under our belt. You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. …
Nearly Final Best Guess Cubs Opening Day 2024 Roster
OK, so given the stuff from the last thread and taking into account what we’ve already considered for the just-prior-to-Cactus-League-finale roster guess, I think we might just have it this time! So while we wait for Shohei Ohtani (and possibly his new, vetted non-gambling interpreter) to read a statement or whatever, here we go: Catchers (2) Yan Gomes – primary …
Cubs Spring Training Pre/Postmortem
As of this writing, today marks the final official Cactus League game for the Cubs. They’ll do a two-game exhibition against the Cardinals, who are traveling west to face the Dodgers amidst all their drama, before the Cubs themselves head a tad east to deal with the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. Opening Day is just a few days …
New Cuts, New Roster Projections
One week until Opening Day, and we have another set of cuts that helps us clarify the roster situation: Of note, and I don’t remember where I read this now, the emergency catcher situation is clarified as the two non-roster catchers won’t make the team anyway. Various outlets have reported that Jordan Wicks and Javier Assad will make the rotation. …
2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
For no other reason than boredom, as well as just waiting out Opening Day etc, here’s this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketgall Tournament bracket: Feel free to put your predictions in the comments.
A Trivia Quiz For You
Here’s the site –> https://www.sporcle.com/games/lkalliance/mlb-cross-league-blackout-1 Feel free to post your results, I doubt I’ll be able to get to full blackout but here we go…
Dreamcast 84: A Fun Guy On Third
RC & AC talk around Oscars night, which featured a lot of Oppenheimer and a pretty awesome musical number, as we also discuss the happenings around Cubs spring training and MLB: You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. You can also use the sidebar to get to our Apple Podcast pages and leave a …