Sep 2, 2003 | Andy
It was a game that you couldn’t lose. You can’t spend five hours and 15 innings at the ballpark and not come out with a win. With these words, Pat Hughes let Cubdom know that Sammy Sosa had put an end to a very tense afternoon…”Sammy drives...
Sep 2, 2003 | Andy
We don’t call him The Franchise for nothing, folks. After pretending it was raining for four hours so they could squeeze in the end of the Jerry Lewis Telethon, WGN finally relented and let the Cubs and Cardinals start the first game of this huge five-game...
Aug 30, 2003 | Andy
Labor Day weekend is always a good time. Cookouts, football, baseball, e coli bacteria, shirtless neighbors, and enough sports on TV to make you literally fill your lap with drool just thinking about it. We’re not even halfway through this weekend and I already...
Aug 28, 2003 | Andy
Every team loses games like this. The Yankees do it from time to time. Even the vaunted Braves have coughed up a two run eighth inning lead. But you have to give the Cubs credit. They do it with style. Most teams let one guy pour the gas on the fire when things go...
Aug 27, 2003 | Andy
It wasn’t just another sweaty night in Missouri last night. Try as they might to downplay the importance of striking the first blow in this ten day bonanza of games against the arch rival (or is that Arch rival?) Cardinals, the Cubs needed to come out and throw...
Aug 26, 2003 | Andy
The three-game series in Busch Stadium that begins tonight is so big in St. Louis that Cardinals fans are out ironing their bib overalls, having the tires rotated on the house and greasing the gears on the windmill, they don’t want a rusty windmill gear costing...
