Mar 8, 2009 | Andy
I like the World Baseball Classic as much (actually probably a lot more) than the average fan. But it still doesn’t make any sense to me that spring training has to be longer because of it. Shouldn’t it be the same size, or even shorter given that...
Feb 23, 2009 | Andy
The Cubs are so old they actually predate the time when every player wore a number. No Cub wore a number on his jersey until 1932, nearly a quarter century after the Cubs last won a World Series. Oh great, another thing to add to the list of things invented after...
Feb 20, 2009 | Andy
Fresh off a 97 win regular season and a perfectly awful postseason, the Cubs are back in Mesa and getting ready for the longest Spring Training in memory. Somehow, adding the World Baseball Classic to the mix has resulted in more spring training games and an extra...
Feb 2, 2009 | Andy
It’s Groundhog Day, and fittingly the Cubs are clearing space on their roster, and it might just mean we get to relive one of the most disappointing chapters of a recent Cubs history so chock full of them that it boggles the mind. On Monday the Cubs traded...
Jan 23, 2009 | Andy
This kind of thing only happens to the Cubs, right? They finally find a buyer for the team, and the guy has rickets? Where is this guy from, Galapagos? Nobody gave him a glass of milk or a citrus fruit when he was a kid? He’s going to be the most bow...
Jan 5, 2009 | Andy
It’s always something with the Cubs. It took them thirty years to find a third baseman to replace Ron Santo. It’s been longer than that now since Billy Williams left left field and they still haven’t found anybody to stand out there for more than...
