May 15, 2014 | Cubs
Don Zimmer, that baseball sage best known for having a metal plate in his head (and looking like a gerbil) used to say that 40 games into any season you have a pretty good idea of how good teams are. Â Any team that is .500 or better probably has a chance to contend,...
May 9, 2014 | Cubs
If nothing else, the 2014 Cubs will be remembered for egregious use of bat flips. Â I say “egregious” because I like to use words that look like they’re Latin for Gregory, but in fact I’d argue that these batflips are not unnecessary at all....
Apr 14, 2014 | Cubs
There are dozens…no, probably hundreds of people who take the time to write, at least occasionally, online about the Chicago Cubs. Â Some of them are entertaining, some aren’t, some are pretty good and some are terrible. Â But for some reason, one stands...
Apr 1, 2014 | Cubs
No regular season game gets more overanalyzed than the first one. Â It’s only natural, we have nothing else to compare it to. Â On Wednesday, the Cubs will play again, and we’ll have yesterday’s game to compare it to (spoiler alert: it probably...
Mar 24, 2014 | Cubs
The darker, dumber corners of the Interwebs reacted with much shock at the news that the Cubs sent prized prospect Javier Baez to minor league camp last week. Â To the unwashed and unenlightened this was simply the Cubs sending their best player to the minor leagues...
Mar 11, 2014 | Cubs
Our next installment in a spring-long first-person account of the Cubs season by the greatest Cub of them all, Luis Valbuena. Â How long into the season this goes…well, only God, Emilio Bonifacio and Rick(y) Renteria know for sure. The worst part of spring...
