Sox Fans Are Weird

In Commentary And Analysis, Major League Baseball by aisle42458 Comments

I'll never understand how Cubs fans and White Sox fans can technically be from the same city.  Last night, the Sox had Chris Sale taking the mound as they went for the first sweep of the New York Yankees at home in 21 years.  26,319 people showed up to watch that. That's less than 65% of capacity. More than one …

Welcome Back, Welington?

In News And Rumors by aisle42440 Comments

So here we all were, basking in the glory of defeating Roy Halladay and minding our own business, and suddenly the Cubs Twitterverse is abuzz about a tweet.  The tweet causing the commotion is from Enrique Rojas: #Cubs call up catcher Wellington Castillo, agent said. — Enrique Rojas/ESPN (@Enrique_Rojas1) April 28, 2012 Of course, nobody on the Cubs beat has …

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Projecting the 2012 Cubs: Jeff Samardzija

In Projections by Obstructed View Staff58 Comments

Since Jeff Samardzija is now a "near-lock" to make the rotation, per Dale Sveum. Let's take a look at his projections for 2012. Just about everyone projected him as a reliever, though a few of them had him making 1-3 starts. It's enough that I'm not going to worry about trying to split all of those numbers out. Here's his …

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Cubs Mesh Corporate Sponsorship and a Veiled Reference to Pubic Hair Into Cubs Convention

In News And Rumors by aisle424128 Comments

The Cubs Convention is now a time-honored tradition almost as sacred in the world of Cubs fans as day baseball, the manual scoreboard, the ivy, the urinal troughs, and the years and years of constant losing. It is a time when Cubs fans can join together in the middle of winter to re-connect with Cubs baseball. It allows opportunities to …

Hoyer and McLeod to Cubs officially official?

In News And Rumors by dmick89Leave a Comment

Jed Hoyer is expected to be named the new GM of the Cubs sometime next week. Jason McLeod will presumably become the Assistant GM. I won’t tell you about the post I had ready to publish before the Theo news broke this evening other than I didn’t really believe the Hoyer to Cubs speculation. The twitters even say that the …

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Not Everyone is Happy About Theo Coming to the Cubs

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I am used to seeing some pretty awful stuff written in the Sun-Times.  After years of employing Jay Marriotti, you pretty much just expected ooze to seep from the newspaper, but you get used to the usual players.  Telander lives off his reputation and phones in the occasional column consisting of one word paragraphs, shallow analysis and stale jokes.  Ginnetti …

What are the 2011 Cubs good at?

In News And Rumors by dmick89Leave a Comment

I wanted to look over various statistics to see what the Cubs were good at. It’s a bad team, but even bad teams excel at something. Right? Batting average is a useless statistic, but I figured if there was one thing the Cubs were good at it would be this. The Cubs .258 team average beats the NL average of …