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 …
Phil Rogers is Still Wrong – Because He HAS TO
MB, you ignorant slut. As someone who has been around the Cubs blogosphere for as long as you have, you should know damn well that Phil Rogers is never right about anything. I’m fairly certain he needs a couple of tries to get his own name right in the byline. It was disturbing to realize that I was coming down …
The House, the House, the House is On Fire
I picked a good time to go on vacation and not spend much time caring about the Cubs. I got a chance to watch most of the games while I was gone because there was an inordinate number actually being carried by WGN America, and they had the national game on FOX against the Cardinals. Never before had I wished …
Cubs are Bleeding On and Off the Field
The injuries are piling up for the Cubs. In the outfield, our centerfielder and unlikely three hitter is down with a BROKEN FACE, the $136 million dollar man’s legs are all but useless at this point, and even our scrappy reclamation project veteran is down with a bad back, presumably from lugging around a giant bag of awesome all by …
Cubs Lose Game and Any Semblance of Being a Decent Team to the Pirates
Last year in an interview with Tom Ricketts, Al Yellon repeatedly asked Tom who owned the Cubs. He asked 3 or 4 different times in only marginally different ways who owned the Cubs and we all had a good laugh. I think we can all agree at this point, however, that we no longer need to ask who owns the …
Chicago Bulls vs. Having to Pay Attention to the Cubs Again – Game 5
So, it is do or die tonight for our young Bulls. After seeing the 2006 Suns come back from a 3-1 deficit against the Lakers to win a best-of-7 series, the Bulls have a chance to follow that blueprint, but will they?
All of the United States Except Miami vs. Miami – Game 4
You have to figure that if the Bulls can ever actually hit a two-foot shot, their chances for victory go way up. We’ll see what happens. For now let’s give it up for Chris Bosh for not being totally irrelevant in this series. Her-cu-les! Her-cu-les!
These Cubs Are Not the 1997 Marlins
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 would have some information from speaking with Jim Hendry or Tom Ricketts or anyone within the Cubs organization that would indicate the Cubs were actually considering such a …
Cubs Are Pretty Consistent
I happened to realize that the Cubs just finished off their stretch where they played 18 straight games against an opponent projected to finish over .500. The Cubs went 12-15 in the early soft part of their schedule against teams like Houston and the Diamondbacks for a .444 win percentage. Then we figured the bottom would fall out as they …
Don’t Ever Bet On the Cubs at Home
Today, I happened upon a site looking at how well you would do historically if you bet on the Cubs regularly. Obviously, (and I don’t think we needed actual data to convince us of this) the result of such betting would have been bad. Not Oh-Darn-I-Guess-I-Won’t-Be-Able-to-Buy-That-iPad-Now bad, but more like Holy-Shit-I’m-Now-Homeless bad. I don’t fully understand how lost “units” are …