Wild Card game preview — Cubs at Pissburgh

Wild Card game preview — Cubs at Pissburgh

Oct 5, 2015 | Cubs, Featured, MLB

It’s been a long time since we had playoffs to preview here, so forgive me if I’m a little rusty.  But here we are.  At least a year ahead of reason, our Chicago Cubs are back in the postseason. They haven’t exactly slipped in the back door.  They...
Why does this have to end?

Why does this have to end?

Oct 1, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

For many years now when Cubs fans got to this point in the season we had long since just wanted it to be over.  Enough with the indignity of watching this team crawl aimlessly to the finish line of another lost season.  We had long since lost hope and interest. And...
Maybe that didn’t end so badly

Maybe that didn’t end so badly

Sep 10, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

For 25 innings this week the Cubs dominated their inbred brethren to the southwest.  They out hit them, they out pitched them, they out fielded them, and their fans out-toothed Cardinals fans three to one.  The Cubs, who had last visited Bus(c)h Stadium in June,...
How many guys can the Cubs fit in the dugout?

How many guys can the Cubs fit in the dugout?

Aug 28, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Tuesday is September 1 which means that summer came and went before we knew what happened.  It also means Major League Baseball teams are allowed to inflate their active roster to an absurd 40 players.  The reasoning is simple.  Minor league seasons wind down...
What if this is as fun as it gets?

What if this is as fun as it gets?

Aug 25, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

We are all counting on 2015 being the first of a half-decade or so (or much longer, much longer would be nice) Cubs renaissance.  The young players are sure to get better (most of them, anyway), more accomplished veterans should be added, especially to the pitching...