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Why the hell do people care if so and so plays in September? 199 Comments

I’ve seen a lot of comments lately from Cubs fans upset that the Cubs are still playing the veterans (on other sites). Of course they are. What young player has pushed a veteran ...

By dmick89 on September 19, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 3 179 Comments

Wreckard took a look at how the 2007 Cubs improved compared to the 2006 team and what kind of improvements this current team would need to make for next year. In the first part of ...

By dmick89 on July 25, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

OV Pic of the Day: Lost Ball Leads to Third Win 83 Comments

The Cubs won three in a row! The Cubs won three in a row! The Cubs won three in a row! How the hell did that happen? Hunter Pence happened. With the score tied ...

By Aisle424 on July 25, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 2 51 Comments

In part 1 we found that there were currently 13 players on the Cubs roster that the Cubs want to keep assuming they try to contend next year, which they will. We left off talking briefly ...

By dmick89 on July 23, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 1 42 Comments

As much as I’ve written about the need to rebuild, it’s not going ot happen. The Cubs have some decent players on their roster and some you’d really like to get rid ...

By dmick89 on July 22, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By dmick89 on July 17, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Mid-Season Good and Bad: Position Players 94 Comments

Last year over at Aisle 424, I decided that grading players on a scale of objectivity was ultimately dumb and subjective. But since it’s like a blog law that you have to do ...

By Aisle424 on July 11, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Some thoughts on the so-called team meetings 87 Comments

On Saturday Tim explained how silly the Cubs are, but I came to a much different conclusion than he did after reading the same thing. Let me start with just quoting some of the same ...

By dmick89 on June 26, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By Berselius on June 15, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Cubs swept by Astros, things about to get much worse 249 Comments

The Cubs just completed a 9-game home stand against the Mets, Pirates and Astros. The Cubs entered the home stand 5 games below .500 and it was concluding the easiest part of their ...

By dmick89 on June 1, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By dmick89 on June 1, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Which types of players have been injured? (UPDATED) 80 Comments

Fellow Cubs blogger Doc Blume opined in the comments to today’s article at LOHO that part of the Cubs injury issues stem from the roster being filled with players with questionable ...

By Berselius on May 31, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

The emptiest batting averages No Comments

Colin Wyers looks at batting average and BP’s True Average to find the players with the emptiest batting averages. Starlin Castro and Darwin Barney at the top 2 and former Cubs ...

By dmick89 on May 29, 2011. Posted in Unobstructed Views

These Cubs Are Not the 1997 Marlins 81 Comments

Dave Kaplan wrote a post on the CSN Chicago site where he poses the question: Will the Cubs follow Marlins’ blueprint? I clicked on it because I thought maybe, just maybe, he ...

By Aisle424 on May 24, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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. ...

By dmick89 on May 23, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

It's never too early to look ahead to next year 138 Comments

A few years ago I wouldn’t have considered writing something about looking ahead. The Cubs had the pieces in place to contend for as long as they were willing to supplement the ...

By dmick89 on May 18, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Grades so far: Outfield 176 Comments

I haven’t gotten to this one as quickly as I’d hoped, but here it is. You can read about the article I wrote about the infield if you haven’t already. Alfonso Soriano ...

By dmick89 on May 15, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

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 ...

By dmick89 on May 8, 2011. Posted in Unobstructed Views

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 ...

By dmick89 on April 22, 2011. Posted in News And Rumors

Should Brett Jackson be starting for the Cubs? 61 Comments

Brett Jackson was the Cubs first round pick in 2009 and the 31st pick overall. It was the first time that I could remember that the Cubs selected someone who knew how to get on base. ...