Jul 27, 2005 | Andy
On a night when Greg Maddux made history, the Cubs made something else. Maddux’s third inning strikeout of Omar Vizquel made him the second player in Major League history to get his 3,000th strikeout with less than 1,000 walks. The only other guy who did it also...
Jul 26, 2005 | Andy
There are times, of course, when hazing can be dangerous. You’ll hear about it in a few weeks when college kids go back to campus and some freshman girl drinks twice her body weight in Michelob Ultra and passes out on some train tracks and gets run over. But...
Jul 25, 2005 | Andy
Many of our intrepid readers were upset on Friday when we effectively canned the season after a pair of disastrous losses in Cincinnati. Some of you thought we were submitting to knee-jerk reactiveness, others just figured, accurately that I’m a dope. While the...
Jul 22, 2005 | Andy
According to published reports in both Chicago and Cincinnati, Cubs’ General Manager Jim Hendry and Reds’ General Manager Dan O’Brien met yesterday about swapping a couple of Cubs’ pitchers (of the Welleymeyer-Mitre ilk) to the Reds for Austin...
Jul 21, 2005 | Andy