OSS: Cubs cruise to the easy win we’ve been waiting to see. Three+ up: Three down: 1. Still lots of head scratching over PCA and Canario not getting starts, but I guess it worked out today.2-9: Pretty much all of the last week, oy. Next up: The Cubs, now in sole posession of the last wild card spot, will ‘start’ …
Dreamcast 73: The Moving Goalposts
We promise never to talk about magic numbers again too prematurely because that past stretch kind of went to hell in a hurry, but the Cubs are still miraculously in a good position to earn that postseason berth should they choose to play better in these final two weeks, and the first game back at home was a pretty good …
Two Weeks
I knew that I wrote something like this a while back, but I didn’t actually know it was from June, before the Cubs made enough of a run to actually get into buy mode. Since then, the Cubs have went on quite the run to get into the postseason picture, but are now unfortunately on the outside looking in, albeit …
Series Mini-Preview: Chicago Cubs (78-69) at Arid Zone Dbacks (76-72)
We just saw this team and I’m half asleep, so this will be even less preview content than usual (dying laughing). Pitching Matchups Friday: Justin Steele, LHP vs Brandon Pfaadt, RHP, 8:40 PM CT Saturday: Cyle Hendricks, RHP vs Zach Davies, RHP, 7:10 PM CT Sunday: Jordan Wicks, LHP vs Ryne Nelson, RHP, 6:10 PM CT Unlike the series last …
Dreamcast 72: Magic Number Math
Rice and berselius talk about the current stretch of struggling Cubness, and try to do some math to figure out the Cubs magic number should they ever decide to play good baseball again. 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 …
Cubs 5, Rockies 4
OSS: Yan Gomes, Clutch God Three up: Three down: Next up: Javier Assad takes on Chris Flexen, who sounds like a midboss in a middling 90’s JRPG.
Wild Card Madness, Mamma Mia!
The Cubs decided to win a game and so they remain two games up on Arizona. This is mostly an excuse to post the yearly rookie dress up day stuff so enjoy 😉
Fun With Cubs
The Cubs won another game, another series, are 11 games over .500, and have the tiebreaker over the Giants, having not lost ground in any race. Have some Morel bomb shots.
The Next Phase
Other than being the title of a pretty cool Star Trek episode, this coming week marks the next phase in the Cubs race towards extra baseball in October. As it stands, the Cubs stand 3.5 games back of NL Central leader Milwaukee, so they didn’t lose too much ground after an unfortunate (but ultimately acceptable) split in Cincinnati. They are …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (71-62) at Cincinnati Reds (69-66)
From on NL Central contender to another, whee. The Cubs face the Reds for the final (scheduled) series this year and it’s been a wild ride in the previous Reds series this year. The Cubs split two games with the Reds in early April before seeing the third game get rained out (and being made up today). The Cubs then …