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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: Nico

By Sam Fels February 28, 2020 0

Nico Hoerner wouldn’t be the first kid to be tossed into an emergency situation and end up a team fixture for a long while. It’s just that I can’t really think of another one. K-Rod? Willson Contreras wasn’t thrown into an emergency, he just played his way into a three-catcher rotation in ’16. It does […]

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Whit Merrifield Isn’t That Great Of An Answer, Certainly Not At That Price, Shut Up

By Sam Fels November 25, 2019 0

Cubs fans, and perhaps only Cubs fans, could be caught in the middle of their analytic leanings, fan passions, an unwillingness to hold ownership responsible for being pricks (who just sold their main company for $26 billion I might add) and a desire to win now. But that’s where we’re at. So you can have […]

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Series Recap: LEAVE THE GUN, TAKE THE PRIMANTI – Cubs Sweep Pirates

By Forklift September 15, 2019 0

    Game 1 Box Score: Cubs 17, Bucs 8 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 14, Bucs 1 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 16, Bucs 6   The Cubs arrived back in Chicago for their final home stand of the 2019 regular season with the stench of desparation and a shiny new shortstop who had […]

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Series Recap: NEW KID ON THE CUBS HAD A BUNCH OF HITS

By Forklift September 12, 2019 0

Game 1 Box Score: Cubs 10 Dads 2 Game 2 Box Score: Dads 9 Cubs 8 (10 innings) Game 3 Box Score: Dads 4 Cubs 0 Game 4 Box Score: Cubs 4 Dads 1   For guys of a certain age (old), the thought of the Cubs going to San Diego in a must-win situation […]

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Series Preview – Cubs vs. Padres: Anytime Now, Assh—s

By Sam Fels September 9, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Cubs 76-66   Padres 66-76 GAMETIMES: Monday-Wednesday 9:10, Thursday 2:40 TV: WGN Monday, NBCSN Tuesday/Thursday, ABC 7 Wednesday LOOKING FOR THE SUIT STORE: Gaslamp Ball SERIES PREVIEW POSTS Depth Charts & Pitching Staffs Padres Spotlight: Manny Machado I may have waved the white flag at this team, or something a lot more impolite, but […]

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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 […]