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Lou Piniella is Not the Players’ Choice

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…Read More

Out With a Whimper

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…Read More

Mark DeRosa Returns to the NL Central

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…Read More

Heartbreaker

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…Read More

He Did it for the Water Cooler

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…Read More

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Cubs Win Despite Milton Meltdown

The Cubs had to know what they were getting into when they signed Milton Bradley to a 3-year contract…Read More

Magglio Ordonez Comes Back to Life to Help Beat Cubs

Magglio Ordonez was mired in a season-long power slump – only 2 homers well into June –…Read More

Derrek Lee Hitting Streak Reaches 20. That’s the Good News…

Derrek Lee has been on a tear.  Tuesday against the Tigers, the first baseman extended his hitting…Read More

Plenty of Hits, Not Many Runs

Lou Piniella gave Milton Bradley and Alfonso Soriano the night off against the Braves Monday, moving…Read More

Cubs Score Second Straight Dramatic Victory…at the Expense of Kerry Wood

Kerry Wood‘s return to Wrigley Field as a Cleveland Indian hasn’t been a happy one.  For…Read More

The Touching Tale of a Man, His Foam Asterisks and Ron Santo

A documentary filmmaker makes a simple request: put Ron Santo in the Hall of Fame before the juicers. He also tells the story of what happened when he tried to hand out free foam asterisks outside…Read More

Even the Young Have Turned Against Him…

This picture is either hilarious or sad.  Either way, it’s a tad tragic that the young in our country are so cynical.  Then again, they have reason to be, don’t they?  And of course the…Read More

Cubs Score Huge Comeback Win Over White Sox

The Cubs looked well on their way to another choking-dog, no-offense loss to the White Sox – then something miraculous happened.  The Cubs, down 5-1 in the 8th, mounted a four-run rally, three…Read More

Danks, White Sox Snuff Cubs

It was another frustrating day for the Cubs.  Ryan Dempster pitched well against the White Sox – 6 IP, 4 hits, 3 runs – but, the familiar refrain:  no offensive support.  The Cubs managed…Read More

Sammy Sosa Officially Outed as Juicer

Sammy Sosa was always suspected of having been a juicer like his ’98 home run rival Mark McGwire, but unlike McGwire, and Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez and many others, very little real evidence…Read More

Gerald Perry Takes the Fall for Jim Hendry’s Blunders

The Cubs have “addressed” their offensive woes by firing hitting coach Gerald Perry and replacing him with Von Joshua, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The Cubs’ inconsistency at the plate…Read More

Bradley’s Gaffe(s)

Friday, June 12, 2009 is a day Milton Bradley would like to have wiped from his brain.  Unfortunately, brain-erasing is not yet widely available, except for the catastrophic kind that involves severe…Read More

Cubs Show Interest in Pedro Martinez

A certain former Boston Red Sox and New York Mets pitcher has reportedly popped up on the Cubs‘ radar: Pedro Martinez recently threw a sideline session for a Rays employee, and it appears as though…Read More

Dear Lou: The Flaw is in His Brain

Lou Piniella and Gerald Perry have reviewed the tapes on Milton Bradley, and believe they have discovered the “mechanical flaw” that is causing him to suck like the black hole at the center…Read More

Cubs Blum-ed Out in Houston

Geoff Blum played the role of Cub killer for the second straight day, leading the Houston Astros to win two out of three in Houston with two consecutive game winning hits.  In the series finale on Thursday,…Read More

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