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  • Carlos Zambrano Kept On Truckin' 100 Comments

    Sometimes the lights all shinin on me Carlos Zambrano earned a cup of coffee in 2001 and then earned his spot in the 2003 rotation with his half-season of MLB work in 2002. Mark Prior ...
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    OV Pic of the Day: Suck It, Holliday 78 Comments

    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 ...

    Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood working on stuff 82 Comments

    I’m not sure why it made me laugh, but I saw on cubs.com today that Kerry Wood was working on stuff to regain his form. CHICAGO — Kerry Wood has been a little inconsistent, ...

    Bruce Levine's 5 most likely to be traded, yo 155 Comments

    Happy Breaking Bad Day … bitch! After xoomwaffle posted this link to Levine’s article earlier today I started writing something and then lost interest about a half sentence ...

    Aramis Ramirez is Due 169 Comments

    With the news that Darwin Barney is now headed to the DL, I thought it would be “fun” to see if the Cubs could field an entire squad of players who have been on the DL this ...

    What the Cubs may soon look like 212 Comments

    The Cubs are 8.5 games out of first place and it’s just the first of June. Their pythagorean record is even worse than their actual 23-30 record. Pythag has them at 22-31. The ...

    The Cubs just aren't very good 194 Comments

    About a quarter of the 2011 season is in the books and the Cubs have performed about as we expected overall. The pitching, particularly the rotation, has been worse than we thought. ...

    How much have the injuries cost the Cubs, and projecting Doug Davis 10 Comments

    Randy Wells and Andrew Cashner were placed on the DL following their first start of the season. Each is currently rehabbing in Arizona and just began facing live batters this week. ...

    Cubs rWAR and fWAR No Comments

    Most of you are at least somewhat familiar with WAR and how it works. I’d bet most of you are familiar that Fangraphs publishes their own WAR (fWAR) and Baseball Reference publishes ...

    Houston Astros @ Chicago Cubs 259 Comments

    Kerry Wood, 20 strikeouts Astros wOBA wRC Cubs wOBA wRC Craig Biggio .406 .82 Brant Brown .361 .64 Derek Bell .387 .72 Mickey Morandini .349 .58 Jeff Bagwell .422 .83 Sammy ...

    Cubs compared to their projections 137 Comments

    I wrote this on Friday morning so it’s updated through Thursday’s games. I’m too lazy to update it to include Friday’s blowout loss. This is something I’ll ...

    The 3rd Annual How Good Has Carlos Zambrano Been In His Career Post 68 Comments

    I had thought about doing this again this year, but held off for some reason. After listening to Wrigley Talk Friday this morning I thought I’d finally do it. WTF talks about ...

    11 Cubs Sure To Disappoint 115 Comments

    I should have written this about ten days ago, but I didn’t so I’m going to do it now. Early season stats mean absolutely nothing to me so there’s no risk of them ...
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    There Have Been Worse Ideas 62 Comments

    It has been suggested on other parts of the interwebs by someone we’ll refer to as A. Yellon… no… that’s too obvious.  We’ll call him Alvin Y.  Anyway, ...

    Random Thoughts 59 Comments

    Three games doesn’t tell us anything, but they were three predictable games. The offense struggled, which they’re going to do all season long. That’s especially true ...

    Obstructed View Opening Day Roundtable – part 2 61 Comments

    Your fearless Obstructed View Executive Chairmen got together to discuss various topics related to the 2011 Cubs season. We looked at the offseason and the new additions to the club ...

    Andrew Cashner joins the rotation 73 Comments

    The Cubs announced on Saturday that Andrew Cashner would be the team’s 5th starter and that Marcos Mateo had claimed the final bullpen spot.  This leaves Carlos Silva ...