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The HBP Drama Heats Up – Cubs/Brewers Series Review: Cubs Lose Series 3-6/3-2/0-7

By Summer Corson April 15, 2021

The start of the season continues to slog on as the Cubs continue to suck offensively and lose by multiple runs, just like the old days. The games are honestly hard to watch when other sports are going on — the Hawks were winning this week and there was even a no-hitter across town. But […]

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A Legend Returns – Cubs sign Jake Arrieta to a 1-year, $6 million deal

By Summer Corson February 14, 2021

During the ensuing clown show that was the Cubs offseason, the front office acknowledged they needed to sign a new pitcher to fill out their rotation. Wouldn’t it be good if they could placate the angry fans after trading away Yu Darvish for a bunch of question mark young players and letting two pieces of […]

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Series Preview: White Sox at Reds – Southside Kings in the Queen City

By Wes French September 18, 2020

VS Records: Sox 33-17/Reds 25-26 Start Times: Fri 6:10/Sun 12:10 TV: NBCSN/FOX/NBCSN Redreporter.com PROBABLE STARTERS: Friday: Tyler Mahle (1-2, 4.31 ERA) vs. Jonathan Stiever (0-0, 2.45 ERA) Saturday: Tejay Antone (0-2, 2.76 ERA)vs. Dallas Keuchel (6-2, 2.19 ERA) Sunday: Trevor Bauer (4-3, 1.71 ERA) vs. Dylan Cease (5-2, 3.20 ERA) PLAYOFFS, BABY! The First Place White

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Mad Science and MLB

By Andy Jonathan April 10, 2020

We all pretty much figured that MLB was going to do whatever it could to try and salvage as much of this season as humanly possible, and understandably so. Major League Baseball is a billion dollar business, and those folks don’t like to sit idly by and let that money go up in smoke if […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Player Previews – Mengel and the 26th Man

By Wes French March 11, 2020

We’ve reached the end of the position player portion of these previews and let me thank you, dear reader, for coming this far. The following list will include a few guys that might never see an at bat with the big club, but dang it the MLB added an extra roster spot and I wanna […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Player Preview – Nomar Mazara, or the Appeal of Past Potential

By Wes French March 10, 2020

Rick Hahn made it a point to call out Right Field as at or near the top of his shopping list for the 2019 off-season. It was well chronicled how historically awful the White Sox were in 2019 at the position, but if you’re unaware they were on pace for a worst-in-history 54 wRC+ before […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Player Previews – The Big Baby

By Wes French March 6, 2020

We open the outfield previews with the young goofball set to hit all the dingers, Eloy Jimenez. Hi Mom! Eloy kicked off a trend of signing in the Spring so as to avoid being a victim of service time manipulation ensure a place in the starting lineup and Left Field to open the 2019 campaign. […]

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Everyone Sure Is Angry

By Sam Fels February 18, 2020 0

Spring training used to be a time of relief and happiness. Even those of us stuck up in the north, under mud and snow (though not for much longer. Thank you Global Warming!) would gleefully check sports sites and Twitter just for a glimpse of the sunshine and players taking batting practice in it. There […]

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Long Journey To The Middle

By Sam Fels February 14, 2020 0

We discussed this on the Desipio Podcast, but I wanted to delve into it a little more. It’s the actual aim of this proposed playoff system in MLB. First off, it has to be said again that this leaking out of the idea, the trial balloon as it were, is almost certainly an attempt to […]

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There Is No Perfect Playoff System

By Sam Fels February 12, 2020 0

I, much like you, made that sound that comes when you surprisingly belch up some vomit and have to swallow it back down when I saw the proposal for a new playoff system in MLB. It’s been obvious for a while that Rob Manfred doesn’t even like baseball, or if he does he doesn’t have […]