When you play the Kansas City Royals, there can be only one of two results. 1. What you’re supposed to do. OR 2. Make Cubs twitter blow up like Tom Ricketts just announced he’s retiring number 21, but only to honor Junior Lake. What You Need to Know: Happily, the Cubs chose Option 1. They […]
Day: August 7, 2018
Albert Almora Needs To Get Off The Ground
You can pick any player on the Cubs this year, almost, and there’s probably been intense debate about said player in various forums. Addison Russell, Ian Happ, Jason Heyward, Jon Lester, Yu Darvish, Kyle Schwarber, and the list is probably longer. And a lot of these players have swung the majority from one side to […]
An Arrest, a Court Case, and a Push to Legalize Sunday Baseball
On June 23rd, 1895, in the third inning of the Colts’ game in Chicago against the Cleveland Spiders, a group of policemen entered the Colts’ clubhouse and arrested the entire Chicago starting nine. Each player was served an arrest warrant and made to sign a $100 bond officially for disturbance of the peace, but in […]