Out of nowhere the wobbly and slightly concussed Chicago Cubs have awoken from their four month hibernation to play the enviable role of spoiler and provide the most desperate legion of fans with the faintest glimmer of hope that maybe, somehow, there's sunshine on the horizon of "next year."If the early returns of August 2011 sound similar to the famed final 37 games of 2010, then you'd be absolutely right. During what turned out to be another lost season of Cubs baseball, the 2010 Chicago Cubs seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the Jim Hendry/Lou Piniella regime. Piniella looked old, fat, severely drunk ...
If someone could explain to me what the Chicago Cubs are doing, I would greatly appreciate it. You see, I've come to understand that in life, it is much more important to understand than to agree. That's doubly true in regards to sports.Us armchair GM's are always planning and scheming our team's next move with trade scenarios, mock drafts and free-agent lists, most which never come to fruition.As ardently as we believe in those paths to success, when the actual general mangers make their moves, we don't always like them, but we can find a way to get behind them. As a Chicago kid, I am very ...
As is usual, June is right around the corner and the post-season hopes of the Cubs are already down the drain.Five games under .500 (23-28), seven-and-a-half games out of first place and seven games out of a wild card position have placed the Cubs solely in a seller's position.Just two years after Tom Ricketts "saved" the Chicago Cubs organization from the hands of the fledgling Tribune Company, its time for Ricketts to display the baseball acumen he appeared to have when he spoke of obtaining “continued long term success...through superior scouting and player development."If the Cubs are to put a continuous winner on the field, they will ...
With a quarter of the MLB season completed, the Chicago Cubs sit 6.5 games behind the first-place St. Louis Cardinals. A season of ups and downs, mostly downs, can still be saved if... wait, who are we kidding? This is a horrible baseball team and a horror to the eye. Instead of needlessly praying for Tony Campana and James Russell to lead this team to a division title, here are five things that must occur in order to make Cubs games watchable again. Begin Slideshow
