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Is This the Year for Our Offense? – 2021 Chicago Cubs Season Preview

By Summer Corson March 31, 2021 0

Ah yes, spring is in the air and the days are getting longer. That means baseball is just around the corner — tomorrow, in fact. The Cubs are opening their season against the Pittsburgh Pirates and the 162-game march to October commences. Everyone knows the rule that you can’t put too much stock on how […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Bote Bote Bote…Bote!

By Sam Fels February 27, 2020 0

When you absolutely have to have a Cub do a kind of adorable yet still annoying gender reveal, David Bote is your man. And he might be the man for the Cubs at second and occasionally third and short, because there’s always a chance that Nico Hoerner stalls out in Iowa and there’s a much […]

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We Know Your Nature – 2019 Cubs Player Reviews: David Bote

By Sam Fels October 11, 2019 0

It’s funny that a bench player generates so much debate amongst a fanbase. Maybe it’s a result of signing a unique and somewhat unprecedented extension before the season. Maybe it’s just that David Bote was forced into more action than was ever planned thanks to Ben Zobrist’s four-month journey to catch the General Sherman. In […]

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Cubs Show Strange Sense Of Urgency, Call Up Nico Hoerner

By Sam Fels September 9, 2019 0

What Cubs fans will tell you is most infuriating or disappointing, or confusing, or infurapusing, about this season is that before it, Cubs ownership/front-office didn’t show much urgency about it. Now, we’ve been having the debate about how much urgency a team coming off a 95-win season with half of a Kris Bryant really needs […]

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Will The Cubs Need Another Bat?

By Sam Fels June 19, 2019 0

Granted, this is a poor post to explore a day after you’ve been smothered by Ivan Nova, statistically the worst starter in all of baseball. One is capable of the irrational at the moment. And it’s not fair to get really emotional about it when you’ve just run the Dodgers gauntlet for four games, because […]

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Series Wrap – Cubs Take Three Of Four From Marlins: Fish In A Barrel

By Sam Fels May 9, 2019 0

Game 1 Box Score: Marlins 6, Cubs 5 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 5, Marlins 2 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 3, Marlins 2 (11) Game 4 Box Score: Cubs 4, Marlins 1 If I were truly miserable and wanting to pawn that off on the rest of the world to dissipate my pain, I […]

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Series Wrap – Cubs Win Two Of Three From The Diamondbacks: It Still Points, Doesn’t It?

By Sam Fels April 29, 2019 0

Game 1 Box Score: D-Backs 8, Cubs 3 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 9, D-Backs 1 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 6, D-Backs 5 While I can always find a level to enjoy #WeirdBaseball when we wade deep into the extra innings, there’s something always infuriating about it as well. Because chances are when you […]