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Yay, more divisional baseball! It doesn’t feel *too* weird that the first Brewers series isn’t until May, but it does still feel weird that it’s the second NLC series overall. Or that there’s no Cardinals series until the last week of June. I’m a broken record (that was shattered by the axe that I grind over this issue) on this …

The toughest* part of the Cubs schedule is finally behind them but they shouldn’t take their foot of the gas. And while the Pirates overall are a step down from the Dodgers et al., they do still have this Paul Skenes guy, who outdueled Yamamoto in his last start. The Pirates are coming off a double LA road trip, where …

The slog through the NL West continues, and the Cubs get to close out their regular season games with the Dodgers. When I first saw that the Cubs were the ‘home’ team in Tokyo I was a little annoyed, both because of who the real home team would be with Ohtani in Tokyo, and because they’d wouldn’t have any ‘true’ …

Luckily the MLB schedulers decided to get my Arizona-based blackouts out of the way by mid-April this year. The Cubs split their four game series in the desert, though they had the final game in hand until the Cubs bullpen melted down on getaway day. These are the last scheduled games but odds seem pretty good that they’ll face each …

These assholes again? Ugh. At least we only have to play once a year (plus playoffs hopefully) in this stupid ballpark, where I swear the stadium sound guy has a personal vendetta against me. I don’t know what it is that always rubs me the wrong way there. The fact that they have the most deafening sound system in the …

I’m on mini-vacation to catch this series, so I figure the least I could do was actually write a post for once (dying laughing). The Rockies were eliminated some time ago, obviously, but at least I still get some vaguely relevant Cubs baseball. Since it’s pretty much just the Barves and Mets that the Cubs are chasing now, here’s the …

It’s our first divisional series, more than a month into the year! Grumble grumble. The Cubs and Beers have both been peppered with injuries but are succeeding despite it – maybe it’s Pat Murphy magic that Counsell inherited? It’s been fun seeing the Brewers-Cubs rivalry ramp up from where it was when I lived in Wisconsin *mumble* years ago, but …

Combined post, cuz we need a new one OSS: Hayden Wesneski gives the pen a shot in the arm Three up: Three down: Next up: See below The Cubs head into another series with a team that gave them a bunch of crushing losses last season. The Marlins are struggling, to say the least. Pretty much their entire rotation is …

The Cubs west coast trip continues with a trip to Seattle. The Mariners are yet another team that’s in the mix for a playoff spot this year, which says less about the Cubs relative scheduling than it does about the relative strength of the league, where there are only four, maybe five truly awful teams, and none of them are …

The Rockies were not a team that prognosticators had particularly high hopes for, but the Rockies opening series managed to look skyward to that already low bar. On Thursday, the Dbacks batted around twice vs Opening Day Starter Kyle Freeland, scoring 14 runs in a single inning. The Cubs are surely hoping to get their whacks in between series against …