The Untouchables (h/t @thecubreporter) head to Pittsburgh to lose in beautiful PNC Park. Pittsburgh improved itself at the deadline by adding former foes Derrek Lee and Ryan Ludwick to the squad. The Pirates picked up Lee for an unranked by BA A-ball first baseman, and Ludwick was acquired for a PBTNL. The Cubs largely failed to improve their farm system, …
OV Pic of the Day: Suck It, Holliday
OK, so maybe the Cubs didn’t drill Matt Holliday in the ear for blatantly spiking Castro in yesterday’s game. Maybe they do look like giant wusses on national TV after the talking heads on ESPN were pretty unanimous that Dempster should drill him in his first at-bat, and after Bobby Valentine pretty much laughed at Marlon Byrd for writing a …
Marlon Byrd on the Holliday slide
Marlon Byrd wrote a brief article today on his blog about Matt Holliday’s slide yesterday. You call a play dirty when a guy is going out there trying to hurt somebody and that’s not what he did. If Holliday wants to go in and hurt somebody he will. He’s 6-4, 235, 240 pounds. That’s him playing hard. The way we …
OV Pic of the Day: Matt Holliday is a Cobra Kai
Sweep the leg! I understand the play was technically legal because he could reach the bag, but look at where he started his slide and notice he is also throwing an elbow at Starlin’s ribs. They should absolutely drill him in his fucking ear. If LaRussa wants to retaliate, let him. The Cubs have absolutely nothing to lose.
OV Pic of the Day: This Woman Wasn’t Born the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series
Sometimes I think the Cardinals take the idea that Dave Duncan is a miracle worker with pitching reclamation projects a bit too far. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) At one hundred years old, she wasn’t born yet when the Cubs last won the World Series or when Albert Pujols learned to drive. We’re looking into reports that Hendry is in talks to …
Old Style to exit Wrigley Field following 2011 season
(I apologize if I don’t do this right. I didn’t pay attention when Al wrote the post about diary posts, or fan shots, or rim shots or whatever the hell they’re called.) Old Style beer and the Chicago Cubs have been intertwined as long as I can remember. When I was a kid listening to Vinny and Lou call the …
How much is Aramis Ramirez worth?
Ever since Aramis Ramirez remembered how to hit baseballs there has been increasing talk here and elsewhere about how his trade value suddenly jumped. Him hitting baseballs well again certainly did not hurt his value and did even increase it slightly, but we’re still talking two months for a guy who will make $4.9 million. His current ZiPS rest of …
Batman-abbreviated Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (42-63) at St. Louis Cardinals (55-50)
I was going to write a longer preview, but I got sucked into this whole “Batman Equation” thing that was running around the internets today I tried reproducing the result, but the plotting software did not like the equation very much (laughing). In my mathematiciany opinion, the Batman logo probably does solve the equation….but it’s not the only …
Obstructed View takes its discredited act on the road
And Counting, Berselius and myself answered some very important questions by an Indians blogger. The questions, as I’m sure you guessed, were about Kosuke Fukudome. So head over there and read what we have to say.