2010 Season Recap

And this is all I have to say about this year.

Cubs Season Tickets Waitlist Update

If you're on the Cubs Season Ticket waitlist, you probably received an email this morning from the Cubs with good news. According to the email, the Cubs offered 2,600 new season tickets this year, so we can expect our waitlist numbers to decrease by that many. Additionally, the email indicated...

A weight off my chest

The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting (so are the Cubs bloggers for that matter), and it stays light until nearly 5:30 in Chicago... but the best news is that the Cubs are playing today! Winter is dead. Spring is here... and the Cubs take the field, if only...

Elton John, Billy Joel, and Dave Matthews to play Wrigley in 2010

Alderman Tom Tunney continues to devastate true Cubs fans at every opportunity. From today's Sun-Times, we learn that Elton John and Billy Joel will be playing concerts at Wrigley Field during the week of July 7, and then Dave Matthews will be playing in September. We have now gone from...

Hawk in the Hall

Sometimes, eight years are too much. Today, an interminable wait has ended for one of the greatest Cubs of all times. Andre Dawson, HOF. His Cubby career only spanned six years, but it was marked by the almost unbelievable story of a free agent wanting to come to Chicago so...

Meet Ryan Dempster at D'Agostino's tonight

There's a special opportunity to meet Ryan Dempster at D'Agostino's Pizza in Wrigleyville tonight. Dempster, along with the good folks at MyWrigleyville.com are hosting a fundraiser for Dempster's Family Foundation. The Ryan and Jenny Dempster Foundation is dedicated to helping people who suffer from DiGeorge's syndrome. (You may recall the...

This is Really!!?? with Byron

Jon Grabow, 2 years, $7.5 million. Really??!! I used to think that being a 3rd string NFL quarterback would be pretty sweet. I mean, how many 3rd string QBs actually see playing time, but pretty much every team but the Bears has had their third stringer for something like 6...

Cubs sold to Ricketts, finally!

The Sam Zell era is over. It was horrible, but not. You see, short term thinking kills franchises. Franchises of any sport are built with steady hands thinking long term. For every 1997 Florida Marlins World Series title (purchased and disassembled within 2 years), are dozens of franchises with lost...

MLB Approves Cubs Sale

The next to last hurdle in the Cubs sale process has just been cleared. The MLB Owners unanimously approved the sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family. Linky Link Since I think Sam Zell has been an atrocious owner (worse than the other TribCo suits that preceded him), I'm...

'Dem Cubbies - Dey're done

Stick a fork in 'em. The math is in, and the Cubs are out. Yet another season (#101) comes to an end without a World Series title, and even though it's been a mathematical improbability for about a month, tonight's Rockies win makes it impossible for the Cubs to reach...

Air, Water, and the Cubs

The annual Air and Water Show is in town this weekend, and so are the Cubs, so it was with a pronounced eye-roll that I read Dave van Dyck's article in the Trib. Air Show jets spook players at Wrigley A squadron of jets sent a jolt through players and...

Bronson Arroyo, honest, selfish, or both?

Bronson Arroyo, the Reds starting pitcher, is making news by publicly declaring that he is taking diet supplements that are not on the approved list of supplements that have been tested by MLB. Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo, who last month admitted to using a now-banned supplement earlier in his...

5 Reasons for mid-season optimism

Depressed that our much ballyhooed 2009 Cubs were .500 at the All-Star break? Here's 5 reasons to stoke your Cubbie-Optimism. 5. Milton Bradley is hitting .239 and slugging .369. For a guy with a .277 career average and a .451 slugging percentage, he's severely underperforming his career numbers... and there's...

Cubs sold to Tom Ricketts

The Cubs have been sold... almost. According to a breaking news alert I received from the Chicago Tribune, the Ricketts family has closed the sale from the Tribune Company. The only remaining hurdle is the MLB owners approval, and that is all but a formality as Bud Selig has already...

All-Star voting 2009

Every year, I publish my all-star ballot. My criteria is to look at stats, but sometimes disregard the stats if I am a big fan of a particular player. So, for 2009, here's my ASG ballot. Position American League National League First Base Cabrera, M., DET Pujols, A., STL Second...

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