Friday, May 18th, 2012
Back when the Cubs were for sale, Major League Baseball didn't award the team to Mark Cuban because it was concerned for all of the potential PR headaches he could bring them.
He's no sporting gentleman! He wears t-shirts and criticizes officials!
And so the team was sold to the Ricketts family, ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
It has been a really tough year for Chicago Cubs closer Carlos Marmol. The 29-year-old has already blown two saves and has looked generally awful in doing so. Now, he has lost his job.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum called Marmol into his office before Friday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
In 2003, the Chicago Cubs drafted center fielder Ryan Harvey with the No. 6 pick in the MLB Draft. Like most Cubs first-round picks, he didn't even come close to the show, topping off with two and a half years in Double-A before leaving organized baseball in 2010 and attempting ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
I watched Catching Hell, the documentary by Alex Gibney about the Steve Bartman debacle in 2003, again this Sunday morning. My initial reaction was to just update my Facebook status with something snarky aimed at all my Cubs-fan friends (again). God, those people are fun to poke with a stick.
Those ...
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Theocracies rely on the belief in a higher power.
And after weeks of roster shaving and tinkering, I'm being forced to put an awful lot of faith in what Theo Epstein has planned for my beloved Chicago Cubs.
"Who are these f*ckin' guys?"
Out are familiar faces like Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano, Sean ...
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