Cubs Report: Optimist/Pessimist

After 24 games you’d think you’d have a handle on your team. That’s a month’s worth of baseball. Surely, you can glean a lot of hope out of a month’s worth of baseball. Right? After 24 games the Cubs have proven they are just as skilled...

Daily Dose: Not so grand

No matter how hard you try, unless you are truly, clinically delusional, you just can’t summon up much hope for this bunch, can you? After 24 games the Cubs are 12-12. They’re the definition of mediocre. While you’d like to think they are...

Cubs Live! Reds at Cubs, 1:20 p.m., 4/27

Pitching matchup: Reds: Aaron Harang, 1-1, 3.70 ERA Cubs: Ryan Dumpster, 1-3, 4.57 ERA Lineups: Reds (10-10) Batting order (with HWEqBA) D’Angelo Jiminez, 2b (.217) Ken Griffey the Lesser, cf (.327) Sean Casey, 1b (.400) Smilin’ Joe Randa, 3b (.333) Adam...

Daily Dose: It’s not even May?

This is the kind of season that drives people completely insane. Honestly, if the Cubs intend to make every month as torturous as they have April…we’re not going to make it. I’m going to be wearing a coat that belts up the back by June at this rate....

Daily Dose: I don’t like you because you’re dangerous

Mark it down. Circle it on your calendar. April 25, 2005. The night Dusty Baker went from eccentric to just, plain dangerous. What transpired in the ninth inning of last night’s win over the Reds cannot be excused, justified or explained. If you’re Jim...

Daily Dose: Like falling off a bike

If you closed your eyes late in the third quarter and just listened, it all came back to you. Scottie Pippen darting into the passing lane. Dennis Rodman tapping a rebound up in the air two, or three, or four times until he was about 20 feet away from the basket and...