The Cubs should have made Ben Sheets pay for his seven walks. They didn’t.
The Brewers all have enormous heads. They must have the largest average hat size in the league.
Bad Cub bullpen. Bad.
Guillermo Mota looks like a thin, 10-fingered Antonio Alfonseca.
Give me nine Mike Fontenots, an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl [...]
There’s been a great deal of talk about the number of walks Cubs hitters have earned (second most in the NL) being the result of the Kosuke Fukudome in the lineup. Since he’s taking walks, the other hitters have somehow realized that walks work and have decided to take a few themselves. This [...]
Yes, Ted Lilly looked much, much better on Sunday.
Yes, the Cubs have tied the team record for most wins in the month of April with two to play.
Yes, they’ve been fun to watch.
But…
It’s really annoying to watch them lose two of three to the Washington Nationals. The Nationals! Series against teams they should [...]
Stupid Nationals.
Note to Reed Johnson: you might not walk away from a play like that against the bricks at Wrigley.
What a catch.
Bah.
That game could have very easily come out a 4-2 Cubs win. If Ryan Theriot’s line drive gets past Helton in the eighth, two runs score. If Theriot gets a handle on that toss in the bottom half of the eighth, the Cubs escape without giving up any runs. It just happened [...]
Lou Piniella emptied his bench to pick up the win against the Rockies last night with four pitchers seeing action in the sixth inning. That’s just Lou picking the spot he thinks will decide the game and managing his entire staff/team to it, which he’s done frequently during his time as the Cub skipper. The [...]
Winning seven of eight at home, regardless of time of year, quality of competition, dodging another team’s ace or overall performance of a pitching staff, is cool. There, I said it. That homestand was cool. Scoring that many runs was pretty cool, too. Yes, I understand how silly it is to be using the word [...]
A moment that felt like it was going to become a Cubbie Occurrence didn’t, and two guys who would be the 23rd and 24th guys you’d expect to blow a game wide open did.
The Cubs loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the eighth, looking for those all-important insurance runs with a [...]
Wikipedia says that the hero’s journey will require a hero to travel a road of trials that the hero will either pass or fail. Let’s look at trials some of our heroes have faced:
Luke had to face Darth Vader again if he wanted to be a Jedi
Frodo had to do a lot, and I mean a [...]
Twice now the Chicago Cubs have swept a three-game series from the Pittsburgh Pirates and the season is only three weeks old. After a 3-2 Cub victory on Friday, the Bucs surrendered 26 runs during the next two games. Care to know how the Pirates gave up that many? Their pitching staff [...]
