Six questions with Starlin Castro

Six questions with Starlin Castro

The next installment of our Six Question interview series is with Cubs All-Star Shortstop Starlin Castro1. At some point after the All Star Break, you’re going to get your 1,000th hit.  You don’t even turn 25 until March 24.  How many hits do you think...
Six questions with Jon Lester

Six questions with Jon Lester

ESPNChicago.com’s Jesse Rogers has been doing “Five Question” interviews sporadically at Cubs camp this spring.  So I figured, “I’m better than Jesse.  I’ll do SIX question interviews.” Today, the series starts with new Cubs...
Cubs trade value rankings – Part II

Cubs trade value rankings – Part II

Yesterday we plowed through the bottom 30 of this completely unscientific ranking of the Cubs current trade assets.  The idea is simple.  It’s a ranking of every player on the current 40 man roster, plus 10 other guys who will be on it someday.  Age, past...
Cubs trade value rankings – Part II

Cubs trade value rankings – Part I

Apparently some other Internet sportswriter does trade value columns every year on NBA players, but since I don’t read hipster, boutique sports sites, I have no idea about that.  Since we’ve reached the part of the Cubs rebuilding when they are starting...
Baseball players are too dumb to play this slow

Baseball players are too dumb to play this slow

David Ortiz calls the pace of play rules that baseball is implementing this year “bullshit.”  Relief pitchers are worried that they’ll be hurried too much when they come into games because they’ll “only” have two minutes to get...