What to watch for in Cubs spring training

Feb 13, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

It’s officially less than a week until the start of spring training.  The Cubs will be christening their newly named, year-old ballpark by giving away game used urinal pucks to the first 14 fans who attend the first workout. If you get one, don’t...

We just found the best feature in the Wrigley rebuild

Feb 11, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

The Cubs have released a video explaining ‘phase one’ of the Wrigley Field reconstruction.  It’s got everything you’d expect.  Some cool aerials shot by an illegal drone, lots of pictures of broken bricks in the snow, some architectural...

What is baseball trying to save itself from?

Feb 10, 2015 | Featured, MLB

On Sunday, the world’s greatest Tweeter, Bruce Levine was on the Score talking about all of new MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s ideas about how to make baseball more interesting for “young people.”  The ideas, hopefully aren’t really...

It’s a big jump to the playoffs for the Cubs…but they’ve done it before

Feb 6, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Their odds to win the World Series are down to 12:1, The Sporting News picked them to win the World Series and even Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA system predicts them to finish within a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. So what do we think...

Some Cubs fans are really cool

Feb 5, 2015 | Cubs, Featured

Not only does WGN do an excellent job actually broadcasting Cubs games, but every year at this time they put out a video that gets us all fired up for the season.  In recent years, we had this sickly feeling that the video was going to be as good as it gets.  This...

On second thought, let’s just play one

Jan 27, 2015 | Cubs

It’s great to see the sentiment, nationwide, after the passing of Cubs legend Ernie Banks.  He was a great man, a great athlete and for a product of the Negro Leagues, who came to the Cubs in the 1950’s to spend more than 60 years as the face of the...