OSS: Cade Horton makes a solid debut Three up Three down Next up: Matt Boyd takes on asbestos collar robber baron Griffin Canning at 11:05 AM CT. It’s a Roku game, so enjoy Pat Zach and Ron I guess. Or don’t. I can’t tell you what to do. (though I still maintain that Zaidman is better than Alex Cohen. Or …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (22-16) at New New York Mets (24-14)
I was told that the Cubs had no hard series for the rest of the year, this is some bullshit. The Mets may have had one of the easiest strength of schedules on the year, but they are still quite a good team even with new signing Juan Soto “slumping” by his standards. The Mets rank sixth in offense, twentieth …
That Game Was Dumb as Hell, Laudatory
Especially that eighth inning, I mean what the hell (dying laughing) I was pretty annoyed at the top half like everyone else, but the bottom half made sitting in traffic seem not so bad after all. Elmo broke Twitter a long time ago, but yeah that is one hell of a wild swing and a wild game that I’m glad …
Series Preview: San Diego Daddies (7-0) vs Chicago Cubs (5-4)
The Cubs are on their fourth, and last, opener of the season as they play their first series at Wrigley in 2025. The weather looks slightly cooler than what they had in Phoenix/Sacramento, hopefully it doesn’t cool off the bats as well. Though if the bats cooled down to only scoring say 8 runs a game I guess that would …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (0-2) at Arid Zone Diamondbacks (0-0)
We are back again! And not at 4am! Hopefully the results are a little better than Tokyo. The Cubs face a less daunting task than they did against the Dodgers, but the Dbacks are also a very good team. Somehow the Dbacks lined things up such that their big free agent signing, Corbin Burnes, is *not* starting in this four …
Series Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles (0-0) “at” Chicago Cubs (0-0)
Baseball! It’s back! At 4am (my time)! It’s been a pretty cool vicarious experience to see the Cubs in Japan, maybe I should try to spend less than a decade before I return next time*. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, including Shota and Seiya in their unofficial roles as hosts. Both teams were shut out by the Hanshin Tigers …
The Christian Bethancourt Game
Mostly because we needed a new post, and also because this was one of the more enjoyable, albeit improbable, comebacks in recent Cubs memory, thanks in no small part to a certain random #9 hitter. The sweep was nice too.
An Early Attempt at Guessing the 2024 Cubs Opening Day Roster
This stems partly from the news that has trickled in between practice games and this post by Berselius way back in the ancient times a couple blogs ago: berselius: I don’t think the Cubs do anything else major (though A+ to Jed for patience), so here’s a stab at the lineup and roster 2B Hoerner LF Happ (S) SS Swanson …
Cody vs ACME: Will Cubs Delete Playoff Hopes?
What’s worse than being a Cubs fan with a World Series addiction? How about being a Looney Tunes fan with a hankering for new movies. Today we heard reports Warner Bros. is shelving straight-up deleting the no-longer-forthcoming film Coyote Vs. ACME. Nostalgia? Joy? Hope? Heartbreak? Pursuit of the incessantly elusive prize? Delete it all, say the lucre-sucking suits. Sorry, fans, …
Sho He the Money
That’s a lot of reading. I guess if you want to you can still listen to the Dreamcast we did before we found out about this crazy deferral plan. Or don’t, I can’t tell you what to do.