Early on in tonight’s game, the Cubs telecast showed a clip of the Pirates’ three runs wild pitch from yesterday. And as the horror show unfolded before his eyes, Pittsburgh play by play man Greg Brown cried out, “That is AWFUL. Oh my goodness, is this AWFUL! That’s DISGRACEFUL.” It was a confusing moment for […]
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Game 155: Cubs 6, White Sox 1
What You Need To Know: This is what Cubs fans have been waiting for, or pining for, for a good portion of the season. An early pantsing of a starter who didn’t have it, everyone in the lineup looks dangerous, and then a cruise for seven-to-eight innings as you rack up yet another win. This is […]
Game 154 Recap: Cubs 8, White Sox 3
What You Need To Know: If this game took place in July, you’d have probably left in the 6th or 7th to hang out on someone’s porch. Though the gap was technically close for most of the game, once the Cubs went up 5-2 in the 5th it never really felt in doubt. It just took […]
Cubs Hope It Blows Over, It Doesn’t
For an organization that, at least on the surface, has so many smart people running it, and in a time where everyone has had an ample sampling of other organizations trying to do so with balloon hands, it’s kind of amazing/startling/wholly disappointing that today’s presser was the best the Cubs could come up with today in […]
Addison Russell’s Ex-Wife, Melisa, Posts Account of Russell’s Abuse
(Content warning: abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence) On Wednesday, Melisa Reidy posted on her WordPress blog an account of Addison Russell’s abuse during their marriage. This follows her initial Instagram post from June 2017, accusing Russell of cheating on her and lying to her. On that post, since deleted, Reidy’s friend commented that Russell had abused Reidy. […]
Willson Contreras: Iron Man, but at What Cost?
As you may have noticed over the past few weeks, Joe Maddon is trying to conserve whatever little is left in Willson Contreras’s gas tank. Victor Caratini has received a few more starts, though it hasn’t hurt that Caratini has hit pretty well and from the left side of late. Well, pretty well is relative: a 83 […]
Game 151 Recap: Cubs 9, Diamondbacks 1
The Bad News: Before tonight’s game, the Cubs announced that Brandon Morrow was shut down for the rest of the year and wouldn’t be available to pitch in the postseason. What You Need to Know: “Really? Our closer can’t finish off the postseason? Oh no, whatever shall we…*unbuttons jersey* hey, what’s this giant S doing […]
While the Players Association Takes Days Off, the Cubs Have None
You might recall that in the sacred baseball year of 2016, the Cubs played a stretch of 24 consecutive games without an off day from June 17 through July 10. After starting off promisingly with three wins over the Pirates, that span of games quickly devolved into that regular season’s biggest crisis point as the […]
Game 149 Recap: Reds 2, Cubs 1
What You Need To Know: There’s a reason people call it a game of inches, and it’s not totally lack of creativity. Jose Quintana made two mistakes, and Willson Contreras’s drive in the 5th missed tying the game by no more than a couple feet. Add it up along with Luis Castillo’s damn fine Kyle-Hendricks-Hopped-Up-Goofballs impression, […]
Game 147 Recap: Cubs 3, Reds 2
What You Need To Know: Cole Hamels + Dillon Maples + Jaime García + Jorge De La Rosa = a winning formula. After Pedro Strop went down, we wondered what the bullpen would look like in a close game, and tonight, we found out. It’s basically if you just hit “randomize rosters” on a three-year-old […]