Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
There has been a ton of speculation regarding the Chicago Cubs general manager spot since Jim Hendry got the Milton Waddams treatment. Well, throw another name on the pile, as rumors suggest the Cubs will chase Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein.
The Cubs are apparently in pursuit of a big ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
The Chicago Cubs finally did the inevitable on Friday, announcing the firing of general manager Jim Hendry a mere one month after actually firing him.
Wait, what?
According to Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, Hendry was actually canned on July 22. However, it somehow took until August 19 for Hendry to turn in ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
The Chicago Cubs have signed their seventh round pick from the 2011 MLB Draft and it's a name you might recognize. High school infielder Trevor Gretzky comes from pretty solid bloodlines, as his dad Wayne is the greatest hockey player of all-time.
Gretzky the younger attended Oaks Christian High School in ...
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Last night the Philadelphia Phillies faced the hapless Chicago Cubs with ace right-hander Roy Halladay on the mound. Easy win, right? Wrong.
Halladay got knocked around and ended up taking his first loss since May 15, and he was removed from the game in the middle of the fifth inning. After ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
The Pittsburgh Pirates are contending for the first time since Barry Bonds patrolled the outfield in the Steel City. Thanks to their improbable success thus far, the Bucs are actually looking to add pieces instead of sell them off. It must be an odd sensation for citizens of Pittsburgh, but ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
The beauty of the Chicago Cubs is the simplicity of their design. Just when you think they've lost in the crappiest way you could ever imagine, they find a way to do something even worse the very next day.
That was the case on Sunday, as the Cubs got swept by ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
This was originally going to be a rant about how the Cubs' terrible pitching managed to get even more terrible on Wednesday night.
And then Wilson Valdez and the Phillies came to our collective rescue.
With the Phils and Reds locked in an epic 6 hour, 11-minute extra-inning battle (aka 15 minutes ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
In a week where we await the fate of Barry Bonds in court and witnessed Manny Ramirez retire rather than face another suspension for steroid use, baseball badly needed some fresh-faced lad to step up and demonstrate that it is possible to play the game with some sort of virtue.
Oddly ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Wow, I guess the Chicago Cubs are really just like all of us. According to outfielder Reed Johnson, everyone in the Cubs' clubhouse is addicted to all things Charlie Sheen.
Johnson was on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 in Chicago yesterday when he said, "The Clubhouse stops and ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Brandon Webb's search for a new home has been one of the more interesting sagas of the 2010 offseason. Just how well Webb, the 2006 NL Cy Young Award winner, will pitch in his return to the mound is not known. The right-hander hasn't pitched since opening day in 2009, ...
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