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It's only mid-April, but there are plenty of people already discussing who on the Cubs roster should get traded.
The discussions always center around what those players are doing on the field—obviously an important part in discussing potential trades, but are usually short on providing full context.
Trades are much more complex than, "Well, I have this guy that I want to get rid of and you have this other guy that I want. Any chance you want to make a swap?"
I don't claim to be the foremost expert on major league transactions, but there are certain aspects that just aren't being ...
It isn't easy being a Cubs fan.
Everyone who knows baseball knows that.
Everyone who can count to one hundred knows that.
The Cubs' misfortune isn't just unlucky, it's cruel.
It's like that sign that restaurants and bars love to hang on their walls which reads: "Free Beer Tomorrow." Most patrons understand the joke. Tomorrow never comes. Don't forget your wallet.
The Cubs have a similar sign that reads: "Wait 'Til Next Year."
The problem with the comparison? For other teams, next year finally did come. And for Cubs fans, it isn't funny.
I originally wrote those words in November 2008 as ...
(Click here for the photo gallery of Friday's Astros - Cubs game.)
What a difference a season makes. At the end of last season, Carlos Silva was an injured, terribly ineffective pitcher, headed out of Seattle on a rail. He further continued down that road this year, coming to Spring Training overweight, and at the tail end of a competition for a rotation spot with the Cubs. But, given a second chance, he's founded health, a rejuvenated sinker, and perhaps a permanent home after leading the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the Houston Astros. Silva, who ...
The Cubs (4-5) missed out on a sweep against the Brewers Thursday, but another sweep-worthy team, the Houston Astros, comes to town starting today at 1:20 p.m.
The offensively challenged Astros (1-8) got their first win of the season against St. Louis yesterday, but the Cubs should have no problem getting back on the winning track with a three-game weekend series against the ‘Stros.
The Cubs went 11-6 against Houston in 2009. In fact, the only team in the NL Central the Cubs didn’t have a winning record ...
The ball jumped off the bat of Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, a burning one-hopper a step to Aramis Ramirez's left. Aging outfielder Jim Edmonds began lumbering toward second base, but as Ramirez (whose reaction to the ball, hit nearly right at him, was characteristically slow) took a jab step toward the ball and reached out to collect it, an inning-ending double play seemed nearly certain.
And then it wasn't. The ball bounced higher than Ramirez expected, and as the 31-year-old tried to adjust, his legs went out from under him, and the ball glanced off the leather on its way ...
Sunday, Monday, happy days; Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days; Thursday, Friday, happy days; everyday is a happy day when you're Alfonso Soriano and you're stealing money like he is!
His nickname is "Fonzie" from the show Happy Days, because he always has a huge smile plastered on his face. Wouldn't you if you had a $136 million contract?
But unlike Fonzie, who was a tough guy, the guy who plays for the Cubs is a coward.
After dropping a fly to left on Sunday, he told the press, "I saw it all the way, but at the last moment, I took my eye off ...
This is how bad it’s gotten for Alfonso Soriano. A day after Lou Piniella defended the left fielder, Soriano went out and had two more defensive gaffes prompting Piniella to make a defensive switch in the seventh inning against the Brewers on Wednesday. Soriano lollygagged and bobbled a ball hit down the third base line in the fifth and misplayed a ball hit off the ivy-bare wall in the seventh. Still, after the game, Lou Piniella continued to support Soriano, telling reporters he had confidence ...
Hope springs eternal. Alas.
Chicago Cubs fans are resiliently optimistic. They’re also habitually disappointed. More than a century after the Cubs’ last World Series win, the locals are still praying for a miracle in the Windy City—which would be better news if earthly prayers weren’t so apt to blow away in a stiff breeze.
Faith means believing that anything can happen.
Fatalism, on the other hand, means knowing that it usually doesn’t.
I’m not suggesting that Chicago’s title drought is permanent. Rain falls on even the driest fields, and sooner or later Wrigley is bound to be the site of a championship shower. But ...
Game No. 11 in our journey to score 162 games this baseball season featured the Brewers and Cubs in an exciting finish at Wrigley Field.
Previous Fantasy Baseball Insiders Tonight updates:
4/13: Blue Jays’ Ricky Romero’s No-Hit Bid Comes Six Outs Short
4/10: Yankees’ CC Sabathia, Blue Jays’ Dana Eveland Shine
4/9: Rays’ David Price Beats Yankees In Season Debut
4/8: Blue Jays’ Vernon Wells Hits Fourth Homer In Three Games
4/7: Rays' Evan Longoria Goes Deep Again
4/6: Orioles’ Adam Jones, Matt Wieters Homer in Season Debut
4/5: Braves’ Jason Heyward Homers in MLB Debut
4/4: Curtis Granderson Hits HR in ...
After a matchup between two relatively awful teams left Cubs fans with high hopes Monday, deeper problems still plague the mind of seasoned manager Lou Piniella.
Piniella may have made his best decision so far in the young season when he decided to start 24-year-old Tyler Colvin in replace of the struggling Alfonso Soriano on April 8. The result? Colvin belted his first career home run in his first at-bat of the season.
With Ryan Theriot struggling, to say the least—Theriot is 7-for-27 with five hits and a .185 batting average—another quick change may be in the works for a Chicago team ...
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