Daily Dose: The end of the beginning

It’s good to be home. After two weeks sleeping in hotels, eating at Denny’s (well, at least the white guys) and always having to bat first, the Cubs are home for the final week of the regular season. If they had forgotten all of the charm of their ivy...

Daily Dose: One helluva hangover

You could see it coming, and the only postive is that the Cubs didn’t succumb to 12 road games in 11 days earlier. All in all, an 8-4 trip is probably better than expected. The truth is that they left for the road trip a game and a half out of the wild card lead...

Daily Dose: No looking back

Late last night, Fat Lance Berkman homered to erase a ninth inning Giants lead and officially put the Cubs in the driver’s seat in the NL Wild Card race. Thanks. We’ll take it from here. Behind another ho-hum 15 win season from legend-in-residence Greg...

CubsLive!: Cubs at Pissburgh Pirates, 11:35 a.m., CDT

Pitching matchup Cubs: Greg Maddux 14-10, 3.68 ERA Piss: Nelson Figueroa, 0-2, 4.44 ERA Lineups Cubs Tom Goodwin, cf Derrek Lee, 1b E-ramis Ramirez, 3b Moises Alou, lf Sammy Sosa, rf Nomar Garciaparra, ss Mark Grudzielanek, 2b Gabor Bako, c Greg Maddux, p Pirates...

Daily Dose: The Lawnmower

Last year Carlos Zambrano faded down the stretch. His fastball straightened out and he tried to compensate by throwing it even harder, which just made it go straighter. A guy who’d helped carry the team deep into September was a shell of himself in October. Fast...

Play Nice

There’s nothing I despise more than after months of intense and grueling training, sitting in wardrobe for a couple hours waiting to be fit in full gladiator battle gear, which is even twice as uncomfortable and burdensome as it looks, before heading to hair and...