The Chicago Cubs, having dropped two of three in Pittsburgh, went into Milwaukee needing 2 of 3 to get back to .500 before heading home for a tough homestand. They got good news before the series started, as Christian Yelich was scrubbed from the first game due to a bad back. The Cubs saw that […]
As Sunday’s game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates was winding to a close with a 7-1 Pirates win, Pat Hughes was on the radio saying the Cubs were losing 2 of 3 to the “lowly Pittsburgh Pirates”. Don’t look now, Pat…the Cubs are pretty damn lowly themselves. After the Cubs returned the favor […]
After doing what they should have done in taking two of three from the Pirates at home, the Cubs welcomed the Milwaukee Brewers into Wrigley Field for a three game set. And when I say “welcome”, I mean they were hosts of such grace and accommodation that they made Martha Stewart look like Strother Martin […]
The Chicago Cubs started their season playing in front of fans at Wrigley Field for the first time since the end of the 2019 season. They dropped their Home Opener 5-3 before winning the next two by scores of 5-1 and 4-3. Their 2-1 start was matched by the Reds, as the Brewers, Cardinals and […]
Opening Day has come at last. A day of rebirth, of renewal. Especially this year, when fans will return to ballparks and stadia for the first time since 2019, save the postseason in Texas last season. The beer is a little colder, the hot dogs a little tastier. It’s more of a harbinger of spring […]
Baseball season is upon us. The ass-wholes dive into such riveting topics as, “Who is the Jimmy Butthole of the 2021 Cubs?” It gets worse from there.
With a week to go until Opening Day, Cubs manager David Ross is faced with some tough decisions in choosing the 26 players that will break camp with the big club. Let’s take a quick gander where things stand: CATCHER: I took the easy one first. With Austin Romine still hurt, Willson Contreras will start […]
Today as Chicagoans look at the mounds of snow that are everywhere, that first harbinger of spring – pitchers and catchers – appears in Arizona. The Cubs have been tying up their loose ends with some signings being announced or confirmed this morning – reliever Brandon Workman has been signed to a major league contract, […]
There are very few players in the long history of the Chicago Cubs more revered than Jake Arrieta. His 2015 season was the stuff of legends, going the second half of the season without a loss, including a no-hitter. He then took on the entire city of Pittsburgh prior to throwing a complete game shutout […]
The Chicago Cubs have signed erstwhile Dodgers left fielder Joc Pederson to a one-year deal worth $7 million. This is, as all these things are, pending a physical. What the Cubs have managed to do is to replace Kyle Schwarber with…Kyle Schwarber. But while Schwarber is getting $10 million to ply his trade in the […]