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There are a lot of things wrong with the 2009 Chicago Cubs. They’re an expensive team that had the hopes of Chicago riding on them repeating their regular season performance of 2008, in which they had the best record in baseball. Only this time, with the changes made by General Manager Jim Hendry, the postseason results should have been different.
Well, those postseason results will be different…I guess. The Cubs will win just as many playoff games this year as they did in 2008; they just won’t have the opportunity to win any this time around.
Hendry’s approach last winter has been ...
There are a lot of things wrong with the 2009 Chicago Cubs.
They’re an expensive team that had the hopes of Chicago riding on them repeating their regular season performance of 2008, in which they had the best record in baseball. Only this time, with the changes made by General Manager Jim Hendry, the post season results should have been different.
Well, those post-season results will be different…I guess. The Cubs will win just as many playoff games this year as they did in 2008; they just won’t have the opportunity to win any this time around.
Hendry’s approach last winter has been ...
...And by that I mean the 2009 season.
Six week left.
Six games out.
Four teams above them in the Wild Card race.
Adding to that was their latest loss, a 6-3 debacle against the Padres, that I think just about put the final nails in this season's coffin.
Nasty game, where a Kyle Blanks inside-the-park home run off Angel Guzman offset a very good seven inning performance by Ryan Dempster. Personally, I think scoring three runs off Cesar Carillo, a guy making his second major league start, was the real killer.
But once again, I suspect that lack of review on the advance scouting was ...
In a perfect world, the Cubs could retain Carlos Zambrano and accept him as he is, warts and all. After all, he is a solid starter with great stuff when he is healthy and his mind is right.
But that utopia doesn’t exist, Cubs fans. The Cubs world is clouded by long-term, high priced contracts that will tie the hands of any GM who the Rickets family might choose to replace Jim Hendry after the season.
Even if Hendry stays, he has to admit that this club needs to make some changes, and that will be extremely challenging unless they can free ...
Even I, a die-hard Brewers fan, have to admit that I had a hard time watching Kevin Gregg’s last performance on Monday against the Padres. Sitting with three Cubs fans and watching Gregg give up the game-tying and game-winning runs was just too much to bear, so I decided to look ahead and give the North Siders some hope for next year.
Gregg is set to become a free agent, and the only way I can see the Cubs re-signing him is if he stays in the closer role and the Cubs make the playoffs. Even then, it will be a ...
As most of my friends and family will tell you, I am one of the most optimistic Chicago Cubs fans around. After these last two games against the San Diego Padres, I realize that the Chicago Cubs are going nowhere in 2009.
I am sure many Cubs fans had drawn those conclusions after the sweep by the Phillies, but I thought it might be the Cubs struggling without the likes of Aramis Ramirez.
Now, I realize that the Cubs are dead. They're only 5.5 games out of the Wild Card and six games out of the division, but they're just not a ...
There are a lot of changes happening on the baseball teams in Chicago already, and this winter might bring more. But could there be a way the Cubs and White Sox could get together on a deal to make both parties better?
There have been very few instances of there being cross-Chicago trades happening. In fact, in the last 15 years, there have been only two: Jon Garland to the Sox for Matt Karchner (oops) and David Aardsma to the Sox for Neal Cotts (a wash).
Perhaps the most famous trade between the two teams happened in the early 1990s, when the ...
There is only one person to blame for the closer situation and that person is Jim Hendry. He was the mastermind (pun intended) who put the Cubs into the situation.
I want to say that up until now I have given Hendry the benefit of the doubt in putting the team together and adding pieces. I have defended him because I felt the team had underperformed to their ability this year. But fault on the closer situation falls clearly on Jim Hendry's shoulders.Begin Slideshow
The Chicago Cubs and Lou Piniella have finally come to their senses. It is likely that Kevin "Blown Save" Gregg is finally not the closer anymore for the north siders.
That is the equivalent to a birthday gift for a Cubs fan. As a Cubs fan, I am so happy that Gregg is finally out. No more blown saves. Yes!
But what's next? Who takes Gregg's place at the closer role?
Many Cubs fans are thinking Carlos Marmol should be thrown into the closer role. I disagree.
Marmol has had a lot of control and pitching problems this season. Marmol isn't the lights out ...
Just as the Cardinals own the Padres, San Diego owns the Cubbies. If the Padres could play the Cubs every day, they would win 100 games a year.
Last night, San Diego rookie slugger Kyle Blanks did his best Dave Winfield impression, smashing a clutch three-run walk-off home run to send the Cubs to a 4-1 defeat. Chicago took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but the Leon Durham curse struck again.
History has shown that when these two teams get together, strange things happen, but the Padres usually prevail. Occasionally, the Cubs get some revenge at Wrigley Field, ...
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