I love Wrigley Field. I love watching games there. I love that it is nestled into the neighborhood and it has become the focal point of the local businesses in the area. I love the absence of a scoreboard that doesn’t tell me when to cheer. I love the minimal advertising that assaults my eyes when watching a game. People …
Soriano 15th in all-star voting, cubs.com keeps talking about it like it’s a big deal
Can someone explain to me why cubs.com keeps talking about Alfonso Soriano’s chances of getting into the all-star game? He’s now 15th in the balloting and I’m pretty sure they don’t take 15 outfielders. This is at least the second time they’ve written about this. Last time he was 12th. Are the Cubs all-star chances really so bad that you …
Whoever Had June 13 on the Kerry Wood DL Pool is a Winner
It turns out Quade’s bullpen was even thinner than people (translation: I) realized when Zambrano was left hung out to dry in Philadelphia the other night. It seems that Kerry Wood’s blister problems have resurfaced and he has been put on the 15 Day DL. Per Bruce Levine: Wood, who is 1-3 with a 3.25 ERA in 24 games this …
Paul McCartney Confirmed to Be Most Exciting Thing at Wrigley This Summer
Greg Kot of the Tribune reports: Paul McCartney announced Monday that he will play his first Chicago concert since 2005 when he headlines July 31 at Wrigley Field. Tickets will go on sale June 20 at tickets.com for the rare date at the Cubs ballpark, which has seen only a handful of concerts in past summers by the Dave Matthews Band, …
What the realignment proposal would mean
Dave Allen has a good piece up on Fangraphs looking at the races in the AL and NL since 1995 and how different they’d have been if it was instead two 15-team leagues as suggested recently. I wanted to look at this in a slightly different, but also less thorough way than Allen did. I wanted to see how many …
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (38-28) at Iowa Cubs of Chicago (25-39)
I blinked, and suddenly the Brewers are on top of the NL Central. They’ve won eight of their last ten games and should win a few more in this series. Team Overviews As always, team stats with NL ranks in parentheses Brewers Cubs wOBA .327 (4th) .311 (7th) UBR -0.4 (8th) -7.9 (16th) UZR 2.9 (6th) -15.5 (15th) SP FIP …
Those Six Pack Plans Apparently Didn’t Sell Very Well
One of my buddies who also gave up his season tickets in Aisle 424 this offseason sent me a message the other day: “The Cubs still have tickets for the Friday game against the Yankees. Good seats. Interested in playing hooky from work and going?” I thought it was interesting that there were tickets available for a series that Wally …
Improving stats shown prior to at-bats
Tango brings up an interesting point. Why show the number of RBI when a player comes to bat when there’s nobody on base? I’ve always wondered why they show the same damn thing each time the batter comes up, but he makes a better point. The stats they show when the batter comes to bat can be much improved. Here …
Davis vs. Goliath
I have a sneaky suspicion Davis doesn’t have the equivalent of a slingshot and smooth stones to fell the Philliestines, but that’s why they play the game. Amiright? Mostly, we just needed a new thread.
Was Zambrano Being Punished?
The Cubs lost to the Phillies and Roy Halladay on Friday evening, which wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise, and what has most people talking/tweeting/cursing/throwing things was that Carlos Zambrano was left in the game to face Placido Polanco with the bases loaded in the seventh inning after he had thrown 125 pitches on the evening. What the hell …