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That Didn't Take Long
The Chicago media turns on Jay Cutler after one bad performance:
What became clear Sunday was that the Bears face a delicate balancing act: How do they get Cutler to be smarter with the football without taking away the playmaking ability that makes him so dangerous? The early outlook...
Trib Taking Rest Of Season Off?
The Cubs beat reporters really aren't getting this digital media thing: The Trib's Hardball site hasn't been updated with a Cubs posting in six days.
The White Sox guys update every day.
Monday's Games - September 14
Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees: The Angels begin a seven-game road trip on Monday. The trip begins in the Bronx against Chad Gaudin. Jered Weaver pitches for the Angels who are 8-2 in their last 10. Tampa Bay at Baltimore: Tampa Bay's tailspin has hit 11 straight games...
The Wrigleyville23 Twitter Feed: Fascinating
If you're not following @wrigleyville23 on Twitter, you've missed a lot tonight - including a poll on Wisconsinians, a beg for help on finding information on this hidden new Jay Leno show, and my concise thoughts on the new Toyota and DirecTV ads.
Soriano, Getting His Wheels Fixed
For those of you who didn't believe Alfonso Soriano played with a knee injury this year or suggest he faked it after the fact to explain his bad performance, he is having surgery on Tuesday.That is some elaborate ruse he's got going.
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It was announced earlier that Chicago Cubs outfielder
Alfonso Soriano will undergo season-ending knee surgery to clean up some loose
fragments. Soriano had been hitting .241/.303/.423 on...
Sunday's Games - September 13
Tampa Bay at Boston: Tampa Bay's losing streak will hit double digits if they lose the first game of Sunday's doubleheader. Matt Garza and Clay Buchholz face off in the day game. James Shields and Jon Lester pitch in the night game.Baltimore at New York Yankees: The Orioles...
What Will Cubs Do With Harden?
Bruce Miles isn't so sure they will offer him arbitration:A lot of people seem to think it's a no-brainer that the Cubs will offer him arbitration. It's not that cut-and-dried. If they offer and he accepts, do they have the money if he wants $10 mil? I was on ESPN radio...
Still On The Bright Side For The Cubs
The Cubs are a mere two games out of third place in the wild card.
Saturday's Games - September 12
Baltimore at New York Yankees: Forget about the loss, last night's game was all about Derek Jeter. Saturday's game will be about Brian Matusz attempting to get his fourth straight win in a third straight quality start before he gets shut down for the season.Cincinnati at Chicago...
Liveblog: CIN at CHI
The season is coming down to the finish line and more people are starting to focus on next season or even (gasp) fantasy football. I do, however, want to remain focused for the most part on finishing the season strong for those teams in the championship hunt. What types of info would...
Cubs Fans Are Soooooo Stupid
I had to put this up today...
Have you heard this story of the couple in Chicago? No? Well they had a kid. And are huge Cubs fans. So they wanted to saddle their kid with a life of loser-dom by foisting thier fanhood on this poor, innocent babe, right? Right.
But they also took it...
Cubs Fans Are Soooooo Stupid
I had to put this up today...
Have you heard this story of the couple in Chicago? No? Well they had a kid. And are huge Cubs fans. So they wanted to saddle their kid with a life of loser-dom by foisting thier fanhood on this poor, innocent babe, right? Right.
But they also took it...
Cubs Fans Are Soooooo Stupid
I had to put this up today...
Have you heard this story of the couple in Chicago? No? Well they had a kid. And are huge Cubs fans. So they wanted to saddle their kid with a life of loser-dom by foisting thier fanhood on this poor, innocent babe, right? Right.
But they also took it...
Friday's Games - September 11
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs: The Cubs and their three-game winning streak play host to the Reds and their four-game losing streak. Rich Harden is 4-1 with a 2.67 ERA lifetime against the Reds. He will face Cincinnati for the fourth time this season.Baltimore at New York Yankees: Thanks...
Friday's Games - September 11
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs: The Cubs and their three-game winning streak play host to the Reds and their four-game losing streak. Rich Harden is 4-1 with a 2.67 ERA lifetime against the Reds. He will face Cincinnati for the fourth time this season.Baltimore at New York Yankees: Thanks...
Rosenbloom Keeps Up The Loony Drumbeat
Here we go with the daily Steve Rosenbloom ridiculousness:
Wainwright won his 18th game Wednesday to lead the majors. Zambrano won his eighth Wednesday to still trail rookie Randy Wells.
Wainwright became the first National League pitcher to surpass 200 innings. Zambrano was removed...
'Wild' at Hart; Zambrano and Cubs Win Again
Monday: Bucs are two hit
Tuesday: Cubs collect 8 straight hits to start the game
Wednesday: Bucs starter Kevin Hart walks six in five innings
Anyway you slice it/describe it, the end result is another loss.
Taking advantage of the free passes, Chicago plated a single run in each of...
Rosenbloom Completely Lacks Self Awareness
Steve Rosenbloom writes essentially the same blog post for the third time in a row, detailing the Cubs' many failings in 2009 and hanging it on Lou:
And now, after all that, after the manager failed to establish and enforce rules, after the manager failed to create an atmosphere...
You down with FIP? September stretch edition
Definition from fangraphs.com: FIP, or Fielding Independent Pitching, which calculates a pitcher's responsibility for the runs he allows based on his walks, strikeouts, and home runs allowed. The FIP formula is (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)*3-K*2)/IP, plus a league-specific factor that scales...
Rosenbloom Is Either A Liar Or Stupid
In a column filled with his typical invective against the Cubs, Steve Rosenbloom writes the following:
Brradley (sic) didn't start hitting until the cause was hopless (sic).
He actually makes valid points in his diatribe, though is needlessly assish in doing so. But it is completely...
Wednesday's Games - September 9
Texas at Cleveland: Scott Feldman has 15 wins this season. Eleven of them came on the road.Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh: The Cubs continue to drub the Pirates after a seven-run first inning on Tuesday. They'll attempt a sweep in this afternoon game.St. Louis at Milwaukee: Adam Wainwright...
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