Monday, April 15th, 2013
It's like that nightmare where you show up to school in nothing but your underwear actually happening in real life.
Less than a week after I took time to crunch the numbers and determine that Kevin Gregg was the worst closer in Cubs history, the team signed the goggle-wearing blown save ...
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Chicago Cubs prospect Jorge Soler was ejected from a minor league game on Wednesday night after he was involved in a bench-clearing incident. Initial reports claim Soler attacked the opposing dugout with a bat.
Yikes.
Details are still a little vague, but Soler's Daytona Cubs were facing the Clearwater Threshers in a ...
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Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Carlos Marmol sucks.
This is not new information to Cubs fans, who have watched the once-electric closer lose his job less than a week into the 2013 season. Marmol's been awful, going 0-1 with a 27.00 ERA with a 4.80 WHIP and .600 opponent batting average in three appearances before manager ...
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Saturday, April 6th, 2013
I've been to Wrigley Field. While it's nice that it hasn't changed much since it was first built a zillion years ago, the place is actually kind of a dump. I guess it was easier to impress people in 1914. The Chicago Cubs really need to renovate it, which is ...
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Carlos Marmol has been shaky throughout his seven years with the Chicago Cubs, but this would be a new depth to the craziness surrounding his career. On Opening Day on Monday, Marmol came on in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 3-0 game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2012
The Boston Red Sox added to their starting rotation on Thursday by agreeing to a two-year, $26.5 million deal with Ryan Dempster. Dempster, who will turn 36 in May, spent most of the last nine years with the Chicago Cubs, before finishing the 2012 season with the Texas Rangers.
Dempster wasn't bad ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
As a Cubs fan, you don't need to remind me that 1908 was a long time ago. That year is so far off, it is more of a concept than a concrete entity. It's almost impossible to grasp just how remarkably different the world was the last time the Cubs ...
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