A Chicago Tribune poll has found that, among all baseball managers, Lou Piniella is the one players would least like to play for.
The poll surveyed 380 players, with the one stipulation being that guys couldn’t vote for their own manager.  Piniella came in dead last in popularity, with 26% of those polled saying they wouldn’t [...]

The Cubs/White Sox weekend series ended with a 6-0 blowout win for the Sox.  Pretty pathetic effort for a Cubs team that looked like it was starting to show some fire and tenacity at last.
The Cubs once again found themselves being stymied by John Danks, who would be a Cy Young candidate if he could [...]

Mark DeRosa is back in the NL Central…as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cards swung a trade for the former Cubs utility man and RBI machine Saturday night, sending reliever Chris Perez and a player to be named later to Cleveland in exchange.  The Cubs had reportedly been discussing a similar trade with [...]

The White Sox did everything within their power to hand Saturday’s game to the Cubs, committing three key errors and a boneheaded balk, and though the Cubs did manage to take a 6-4 lead at one point, they were unable to maintain their grip on the contest.  It just wasn’t a great day for Cubs [...]

Lou Piniella has explained why he told Milton Bradley to go home after Bradley’s tantrum in the dugout Friday.  It was all about protecting the water cooler, which Bradley was ready to go all Carlos Zambrano on after flying out meekly in the top of the sixth:
“I don’t like those things to happen, but I’m [...]