Today, after finally sobering up, I went to the Chicago Cubs’ ESPN page and came across an interesting article in the fans favorites section: a run down of the position battles in various spring training camps. To no surprise I found the Cubs fifth starting rotation spot on the list. To my dismay, I found [...]

There was great elation when Alfonso Soriano signed an eight-year, $136 million contract back in 2007. We Cubs fans thought we had a guy that could hit 50 homeruns from the leadoff spot, steal 20 bases, and man center for years to come. Heck, we thought we had Willie Mays in the 21st century.
Well, three [...]

Every spring the city of Chicago gets a jolt of life when the Cubs and White Sox rivalry is renewed. This little hate-fest typically begins simmering around the time pitchers and a catcher report for spring training and is boiling over by the first Red Line Series.

This is a great rivalry since both sides [...]

Ozzie Guillen has chosen to enter the 21st century in the way that brings him the most attention: he signed up for Twitter.  Although rumor has it his sons are posting a lot of his tweets, the bottom line is that he has jumped on another opportunity to make his ridiculous thoughts and feelings known [...]

Last year wasn’t exactly the greatest year from Soriano, but we’ve come to expect the lacksadaisical attitude, nagging injuries, and overall inconsistent play from our $136 million dollar outfielder.  At the end of last season it was announced he was going to undergo some sort of knee surgery, but with more than 5 months to [...]

Well, if you thought the Ricketts family was going to be more fan-friendly to your wallets, you were sorely mistaken.  As we all knew since day 1, the Cubs are famous for scalping their own tickets.  Now they have just essentially made it official.  Here’s the story from Cubs.com:
Starting Monday, February 15th at 10am CT, [...]

The Ricketts family has taken over and they are already starting to make their presence felt.  We have heard about all the changes they plan on implementing around the park, the experience and the Organization in general.  On-field personnel?  Seems to be an afterthought, oh well.  David Kaplan has explained some more of the changes [...]

Watch the very end of this clip to see a clearly drunk Freddy cursing the Cubs.  Good times.

On another note, this clip comes from a new website over at the Chicago Now network.  The blog, titled Chicago Sports Mob, has a noble goal.  Written by Matt of Zoner Sports fame, the purpose of the site [...]

I’m not sure how Zoner found this, but it made me laugh a few times.  For some reason this weird white dude thinks that Carlos Zambrano has a cheesy racist asian accent, but that doesn’t take too much away from the humor (and possibly adds to it).  the key here is that the “artist” combined [...]

Neither Chicago team won the Aroldis Chapman sweepstakes, but unfortunately for him, Cincinnati did.  And you know what that means, don’t you?  Dusty Baker + Young Talented Arms = Trouble.  That formula has been proven again and again.  Thankfully we have The Onion to make up a hilarious fake story that rings a little too [...]

Want to revisit the Milton Bradley situation?  Neither do I, but I felt like I needed to share a bit of ridiculous information that just proves that even one year of Milton Bradley’s negative energy will take a while to wash off.  Stories surfaced last week that Bradley, who leased an apartment for a year [...]

Mark Grace has always been my favorite player of all time.  Most hits in the 90’s, always seemed to come through in the clutch, funny as hell, party guy and of course, the slumpbuster legend.  Well my boy weighed in on the steroid issue and offered this reason for why he never took PEDs:
“I like [...]

I know its January and you are probably still trying to forget about the awful 2009 Cubs season.  I have tried to avoid following the trade rumors and other nonsense surrounding the Cubs for a few months just to recover from that disaster.  While all the rumors have really only culminated in 2 additions — [...]

Andre Dawson, known to many lovingly as “The Hawk” was one of the great heroes of my childhood.  Pretty much any Cubs fan in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a Hawk fan.  He won the MVP in 1987 as a Cub and blasted a career 438 home runs in an era where steroids [...]

Congratulations to Andre Dawson.  The Hawk was always a class act and his numbers and swagger make him an obvious Hall of Famer in my book.  My well wishes go out to Bert, Robbie, and Barry who did not make the Hall this year.
Go Hawk!