Daily Dose: Your favorite player

When you’re a kid you don’t put a whole lot of thought into who your favorite player ought to be. You don’t even know how you made the decision, you just did. This Week In Baseball had a camera behind the Seattle Mariners’ batting cage in the...

Daily Dose: Life without Corey

Think about being Corey Patterson. You just trudged in off the field after (gasp!) drawing two walks in a AAA game and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself. Then somebody calls your old Cubs’ teammate Jason Dubois to the office and he finds out...

Daily Dose: Carlos being Carlos

There was the theory that Dusty Baker was trying to send a message to Carlos Zambrano by putting him in the fourth spot in the rotation to start the second half of the season. The theory was that the Cubs wanted to do something to refocus Carlos, who, despite having...

Cubs Live! Pissburgh Pirates at Cubs, 1:20 p.m., 7/15

Pitching matchup: Pirates: Josh Fogg 4-4, 4.30 ERA Cubs: Kerry Wood 2-2, 4.80 ERA Lineups Pirates (38-49) Matt Lawton, rf Freddy Sanchez, 3b Jason Bay, cf Craig A. Wilson, lf DarylE-3 Ward, 1b Jose Castillo, 2b Ryan Doumit, c (Oh, THE Ryan Doumit?) Jack...

Daily Dose: Baseball dyslexia

When you lose eight games in a row, something has to change. Cubs fans clamored for a trade. New bums had to be better than the bums we were watching. Instead, the team sent two of the underachievers to Iowa and brought up a “couple” from West Tennessee....

Cubs Live: Pissburgh Pirates at Cubs, 1:20 p.m., 7/14

Pitching matchup: Pirates: Mark Redman, 4-8, 3.76 ERA Cubs: Mark Prior, 5-3, 3.41 ERA Lineups: Pirates (39-48) (Lloyd’s still pulling it out of a hat.) Update: 12:47 p.m. Matt Lawton, rf Robbbbb Mackowiak, 3b Jason “O for Detroit” Bay, cf Craig A....