Steve Stone has a Web site and a blog, and that’s a pretty good thing for people who like to learn a little bit about the game of baseball.
A post on why Len and Bob work just fine will appear later during the Cactus League, but there will only ever be one Stoney.
Alfonso Soriano, the Cubs superstar left fielder, recently said he’s not enthused about crashing into the wall at Wrigley Field. Who can blame him? Running full speed into a brick wall doesn’t sound like a great deal of fun, nor does the subsequent trip to the emergency room it would require. It’s probably also a [...]
I don’t know Mark DeRosa apart from what I see in interviews and what I see on the field. He appears to be a hardworking guy who does what he can to help the team win, and he appears to be a guy who’s willing to talk about his performance beyond the normal athlete [...]
The virtual waiting room was fun, wasn’t it? It’ll be great to buy the tickets at a premium this summer from the ticket vendors who were able to get through.
Time in the virtual waiting room provided a second or, more accurately, 752,342 seconds, to think about the rotation for the 2008 Cubs. At [...]
There will always be a certain amount of weirdness that follows the Cubs around like an ugly championship drought, stories that take attention away from what happens on the field. Corked bats, brawls within the battery, the World’s Biggest Beer Garden, a new owner who looks like Doctor Zito from MacGyver, etc., will all get [...]
Could “because I was lazy” be the dumbest reason ever given for being a Cubs Masochist?
The local cable network carried three superstations in 1985: WTBS, WOR and WGN, which meant there was access to Braves games, Mets games and Cubs games. WTBS was worthless since it started everything at five minutes past the half [...]
It’s always a circus when a superstar right fielder reports to Cubs training camp. Dozens of reporters cover the appearance. The manager must detail why the superstar right fielder is key to the team’s success. Someone pulls off a joke. You know, exactly how things should be when a superstar right [...]
The idea would be to show, not tell, what cubsmasochist.com is. So here’s an attempt.
The pitcher above was to be the one who would lead the Chicago Cubs to the World Series and a North Side Dynasty. The pitcher above was not only the best player in the 2001 Draft (is that laughter [...]
