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Ugliness

How do you get beat 10-0 by the Arizona Diamondbacks with your alleged #2 starter on the hill?  First, you only get two hits off Doug Davis (I hear Bob Uecker saying something I don’t want to repeat…Read More

Putting it All Together, For One Day at Least

Despite playing without Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez, the Cubs managed to pound out 11 runs on 15 hits in beating the Diamondbacks.  Carlos Zambrano, who has been falling into the pattern of inconsistency…Read More

Cubs End Offensive Skid, Get Bitten by the Injury Bug Again

It’s been a week for the Cubs: they haven’t been able to hit a lick, plus their star players keep getting nipped by the injury bug.  Going into Sunday, the Cubs had lost four straight, mustering…Read More

Wanna Spend Eternity Inside Wrigley’s Outfield Wall? Now You Can. Sorta.

Today’s enlightened modern world offers many different ways for people to dispose of their mortal remains after they are gone.  Some have their ashes shot into space.  Some choose to be buried…Read More

Stymied

Tuesday night’s cold didn’t seem to bother the Cubs‘ bats:  they scored 7 runs off Dusty Baker‘s Reds and cruised to an easy win.  Wednesday night it was cool again – 45…Read More

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Weather Cold, Aramis Hot

Tuesday night at Wrigley was not so great for people who like staying warm and dry – nor was it…Read More

Video: Cat Interrupts Cubs Game, Gets Roughed Up by Grounds Crew

Tuesday night’s Cubs/Reds game – Cubs won 7-2 by the way – was briefly interrupted…Read More

Back at it…Maybe

The Cubs return to the field Tuesday night after an unscheduled two-game vacation, assuming there are…Read More

Aramis Ramirez Beats Cardinals With 11th Inning Homer

If the rest of the season goes the way the first few weeks have gone…it’s going to be…Read More

Milton Bradley Suspended Two Games for Bumping Ump

We were wondering what sort of punishment Milton Bradley would receive for apparently bumping umpire…Read More

Soriano Rescues Zambrano, Cubs With 8th Inning Homer

You don’t expect a game started by Carlos Zambrano to degenerate into a slugfest, but that was exactly what happened Friday afternoon in Wrigley Field.  After blowing through the Cardinals in the…Read More

Ump Complains of Bradley Bump

Umpire Dan Iassogna says he will send a report to MLB on the home-plate confrontation between Milton Bradley and umpire Larry Vanover during the 6th inning Thursday, in which he will inform MLB that Bradley…Read More

Cubs Drop Opener to Cardinals; Milton Bradley Gets Booted

We’re only in the second week of the season, and already, both our worst nightmares about Milton Bradley have been partially realized.  Last week, Bradley fulfilled the first part of the double-header…Read More

Jason Marquis Gets His Revenge

Jason Marquis was a reasonably effective fifth starter for the Cubs – and, frankly, may have been their best pitcher down the stretch in 2008 – but nevertheless, the team elected to trade him…Read More

Lilly Takes No-Hitter into 7th; Cubs Shut Out Rockies

Opening day at Wrigley Field was cold, drizzly, windy, and began with some maniac hanging a goat’s head from the Harry Caray statue outside.  Bad weather and rotting animal parts did not deter the…Read More

Great Voice Silenced: Harry Kalas Dead at 73

Chicago had Harry Caray…and Philadelphia had Harry Kalas.  Actually, we all had Harry Kalas, thanks to NFL Films.

Fool Hangs Goat Carcass Off Harry Caray Statue; Chicago Police Not Amused

Some misguided individual, evidently meaning to once-and-for-all dispel the curse that has allegedly haunted the Cubs ever since the team famously booted a pidgin-English-speaking man and his foul-smelling…Read More

Reed Johnson Robs Prince Fielder as Cubs Prevail

Call the cops, ’cause Prince Fielder got robbed!  Good thing it was the Cubs’ Reed Johnson doing the robbing, as he reached up over the wall and kept Fielder from his first-ever grand slam.  …Read More

Cubs Get Break; Soriano Breaks Brewers’ Hearts

Alfonso Soriano played the hero for the Cubs Saturday night, blasting a 2-run shot into the second deck to give Chicago a 6-5 lead over the Brewers in the 9th, a lead they would not relinquish.  Exciting…Read More

Cubs Blow 9th Inning Lead, Lose to Brewers

The way the Cubs played in the 9th inning Friday against the Brewers, you could’ve sworn it was a playoff game.  And if you’ve watched the Cubs play a playoff game lately you know that last…Read More

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