Daily Dose: The Farns…unhinged

His hair is wild, he’s been known to stay out all night being wild, and so why is it a surprise that suddenly The Farns is wild? Until last night (according to our unofficial account) Kyle Farnsworth hadn’t thrown a strike in 19 straight pitches. OK, so...

Daily Dose: That Maddux sure is “frisky”

Shortly after his mad dash from first to third, WGN Radio announcer Pat Hughes credited the Cubs first run to some “frisky baserunning” by Greg Maddux. And Maddux, as pointed out by the Wizard of Roz in today’s Daily Herald has followed his 2003...

Cubs Live! : Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals, 12:10 p.m.

Pitching matchups: CHI: Greg Maddux, 1-2, 5.65 ERA STL: Jason Marquis, 1-1, 3.73 ERA The lineups are in: CUBS 2b Todd Walker CF Corey Patterson RF Sammy Sosa LF Moises Alou 3B Aramis Ramirez 1B Derrek Lee SS Alex Gonzalez C Paul Bako P Greg Maddux CARDINALS 2B Tony...

Daily Dose: Can’t beat fun at the old barnyard…er…ballyard

All through the first three games of the Cubs-Cardinals series down there in dogpatch this weekend, it rained. On Saturday night it rained so hard that some guy built a boat and tried to get two of every one of the earth’s animals to line up and board it. But...

Chip Watch: “If I stop talking, I’ll die!”

As part of our never-ending commitment to providing you, the home reader, with the finest analysis of…whatever we find interesting at the time…we bring you another installment of Chip Watch, where we try and figure out just what the hell Chip Caray is...