Some days, baseball takes it easy. Yesterday was not one of those days—but if you read the recap we published here, or watched the game, you know that already. Tonight was, though. The Cubs charged out to an early lead, scoring two in the first off of Marlins sacrificial lamb starting pitcher Adam Conley, and never really […]
Day: August 1, 2016
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Marlins, August 1-3
I want to take you back to a simpler time, a time before iPhones, Twitter, and Google Docs. It’s 2003, and the Cubs are facing the Miami Florida Marlins at Wrigley Field in late July. Both teams are right around .500 and they weren’t exactly big rivals at the time, which makes the matchup pretty […]
Adam Warren’s Confusing Chicago Tenure
Aroldis Chapman made his first appearance for the Cubs on Wednesday, as I’m sure you were aware. Chapman has dominated the discourse for the last week, for obvious reasons; he is an electric and talented baseball player, who also fired eight shots from a handgun during an argument with his girlfriend in October, and allegedly […]
In Strop and Rondon, Cubs Have One Of Their Best Ever Duos
Other than maybe the Kansas City Royals of the last few years, every fan thinks that the bullpen of their favorite team is bad and could use improvements at the trade deadline. So with all the fanfare regarding the Cubs trading for Aroldis Chapman, their brand-new, shiny closer, you’d think they’ve had problems at the […]
Game 104 Recap: Cubs 7 Mariners 6
“The Cubs win on a walk-off bunt by Jon Lester in the twelfth inning,” is a collection of words which have no business being fit together to explain a real life event, but, here we are. It was a game in which five Cubs played left field, and one of them was Travis Wood, who made […]