This is The Beer List. It’s an opportunity, once every two weeks, for the staff here at BP Wrigleyville to get together (virtually, of course) and respond briefly to one small, usually quite open-ended, question. Despite the strenuous efforts of certain members of the writing crew to make it so, it has nothing to do […]
Day: September 29, 2015
Game 156 Recap: Cubs 1 Royals 0
It doesn’t feel like the end is here, or even near. The 2015 Cubs have been magic (or, as I still prefer, magick), and it doesn’t feel like this season has any right to end anytime soon. Jarringly, though, Monday marked the end of the regular-season home schedule. If the Cubs don’t win the Wild […]
The 2015 Ballad of Jon Lester – Start No. 31
Date: September 25, 2015 Opponent: Pittsburgh Pirates Location: Wrigley Field Introduction “If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” -Michael Gary Scott Oh, how sweet it would have been. Jon Lester was very good on Friday afternoon, just like he has been for the majority of 2015. It would have been so […]