Cubs-Cardinals Podcast Preview
Here come the Cubs
We all acted cool and said things like, “I’m just glad they’re good again,” or “I want them to win, but even if they don’t, it’s been a great season.” We didn’t mean any of it. When Starlin snagged Francisco…
Cubs Playoff Preview Podcast
Wild Card game preview — Cubs at Pissburgh
It’s been a long time since we had playoffs to preview here, so forgive me if I’m a little rusty. Â But here we are. Â At least a year ahead of reason, our Chicago Cubs are back in the postseason. They haven’t exactly slipped in the back door. Â They…
Why does this have to end?
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
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?
Tuesday is September 1 which means that summer came and went before we knew what happened. Â It also means Major League Baseball teams are allowed to inflate their active roster to an absurd 40 players. Â The reasoning is simple. Â Minor league seasons wind down…
What if this is as fun as it gets?
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…
Four days that define a season
In many ways, we–you and me–are the worst possible people to determine just how good the 2015 Chicago Cubs are. We have a long history of loving this franchise and hating this franchise and wanting to hug them and wanting to punch them and everything in…
Chris Coghlan: The Half-Assed Ben Zobrist?
Yesterday, Jed Hoyer, the tiny little guy who Theo Epstein allows to pretend he’s the general manager, said that the Cubs are about to have some “fun” roster problems. Â Jed’s idea of fun needs some work. What he was referring to is the…
It’s time for the Sun-Times to log off
I know times are tough in the newspaper business. Â Circulation is at all-time lows, people don’t want to pay for access to stories on the Internet. Â Advertisers see little value in print ads, and most don’t have a clue how to effectively advertise…
Let’s just put this here—forever
The Cubs had taken things and moved them from the folder that said ‘bad’ to the one that said ‘worse.’ Â After rallying back from a 4-0 deficit to eventually lead 7-4, they not only blew the lead, but trailed the mighty Colorado Rockies 8-7…
Cubs fans remind us all that we’re the dumbest
Dear Cubs fans, Knock it off. Â Just quit it. Â What is wrong with you?7 There’s no right or wrong way to be a fan. Â But you’re doing it wrong. Yes, it sucks that this team hasn’t played well since Jhonny Peralta dumped one in the basket a few weeks…
This would have been too good to be true
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”  But what did he know?  And besides, if the Cubs had brought E-ramis Ramirez back for a two and a half month swan song, E-ramis is Dominican, so we can ask Colin Cowherd if…
Taylor Teagarden and the Miracle of GAB
There are signs, there are omens, and then…there are things that can only be explained as truly miraculous. The 20,000 or so people who actually stayed through the end of the second game of yesterday’s Cubs-Reds doubleheader at Great American Ballpark…
Starlin is a rough watch
I’m pretty sure that I still like Starlin Castro more than most Cubs fans. Â I’m pretty sure that if you like him “at all” it’s more than most Cubs fans. Â We have history with Starlin. Â He was a 19 year old rookie called up to a bad…
Cubs at the break: By God, they are actually good!
Sports fans are the worst, aren’t we? If, back in spring training, you were assured that the Cubs would go into the All-Star Break seven games over .500, in the lead for the last playoff spot in the National League, and that Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo would…
Coghlan’s a good man, and thorough
Circuitous flyball route taker and world champion strikeout pouter Chris Coghlan’s production should actually continue to go up now that (for a brief moment, at least) Chris Denforia and Jorge Soler are actually healthy at the same time. Â Coghlan and Denorfia…