At 17-22 after a loss to the Cincinnati Reds Monday night, Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade had seen enough and decided he wasn't going to take it anymore. He called a team meeting after the game to air out his grievances with how the club was playing.I guess everything isn't sunshine and lollipops anymore for Quade, who has had an excuse or has found something positive out of just about every dismal mistake, failure to execute, or lack of hustle from his team so far this year.How far we have gone from that 24-13 finish last year that convinced GM ...
Just like you can count on the swallows coming back to Capistrano, you can count on Cub fans migrating to Arizona during Spring Training to watch their beloved Cubbies. The Cubs have always been the top draw in the Cactus League. Because they were so popular, they actually tried to get a surcharge passed in Arizona on other teams training there to help them build a new compound in Mesa. That failed and now it seems another certainty in life is gone, leaving us with just death and taxes. If recent developments are any indication, it seems Cub fans are ...
May 31, 2004
An Interview with Ron Santo—The Cubs' No. 1 Fan
This is the first interview I ever had the privilege of doing, and it happened to be with a childhood hero. I can't tell you the thrill I had sitting in the radio booth with Chicago Cub great Ron Santo overlooking Wrigley Field. I thought with his passing, that fans of his and the Cubs would enjoy getting into his head a little bit.
He talks about his thoughts on why his Cub teams never made it to the World Series, and compares today's ballplayers to when he played. He reveals how ...
I awoke early this morning and turned on the radio and heard them talking about Ron Santo. I wondered why, and then it hit me, "Oh my God, he must have died."
He died from complications of bladder cancer. He went through so much fighting his life-long battle with diabetes and the other maladies it brought on and finally succumbed early this morning. He was 70 years old.
Let's take a trip back to happier times. I was a youngster growing up a Cub fan and enjoying the magical 1969 season. I remember Ronnie clicking his heels after every Cub victory that year ...
With the announcement of Mike Quade as the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, the organization has finally done the impossible. They have taken away all hope from fans of the team and the promise of "Wait Until Next Year."
Most of us already assumed it would never happen in our lifetimes, but they just hammered the final nail in the coffin for fans of the North Side ballclub.
I feel like one of the vampires on True Blood, destined to live in darkness forever, or at least for how much time I have left on this planet. Unlike them, a stake through the heart or ...
With another season ending in disappointment for Chicago Cub fans, is it too early to shout out the refrain, "Wait Until Next Year?"
That's the slogan of the Chicago Cubs, whether they realize it or not. No other team in the history of sports has been mouthing those words for a longer period of time; 102 years to be exact.
The slogan actually culled by the new ownership group, Tom Ricketts and family for 2010 was "Year One." I guess that was because it was their first year running the team, and it sounds a helluva lot better than "Year 102," and "We Still Can't ...
Isn't it amazing how good a manager can look when his pitching staff is throwing up goose eggs game after game?
Things don't look quite as good when your opponent is scoring runs in bunches against you like the last two games, and that's my problem with interim Cub manager Mike Quade and his ascent to one of the favorites to get the job next year.
An eleven game run with his pitching staff posting a 1.29 ERA and his starters going 9-1 during that span helped propel Quade from after-thought status to maybe being the 'man' for the job.
A career minor ...
Spending a week on a cruise ship tends to take you out of the sports loop.
That was my situation last week as I tuned into ESPN in my cabin and caught the hosts of Baseball Tonight talking about Texas Ranger's outfielder Josh Hamilton.
I didn't catch the beginning, but what I heard was something like, "If Hamilton didn't get messed up with drugs at the beginning of his career, he might be on his way to the Hall of Fame."
That brought back some very bad memories for me. The Chicago Cubs had him for a second in 2006 before GM Jim Hendry ...
I guess yesterday's news involving Lou Piniella ending all doubt and saying he will not be back next year is good news for me. I won't have to write anymore "fire Lou Piniella" columns.
But why is he still in Chicago? What is to be gained by that?
The team he has managed is going nowhere. They have been lifeless all year, and now they are playing for a lame-duck manager.
What is there to inspire them to play hard the rest of the way?
They know Piniella won't have any say if they're around next year. Jim Hendry will be evaluating them, and ...
Mount Zambrano erupted again yesterday during the Chicago Cub-Chicago White Sox Crosstown Classic because of his perception of a lack of effort by some of his teammates in the first inning where he gave up four runs.
Everyone is saying the Cubs should get rid of him because of his emotional outburst in the dugout.
I say it's about time somebody on this team showed some life and that they cared about what's happening on the field.
Former Arizona Diamondback manager and current Cub color analyst Bob Brenly said after the incident, "It's good to see somebody show some emotion, because this has ...
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