Over the weekend, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals found themselves writing the newest chapter in their long standing rivalry. Ho-hum. Yawn. Wake me up when one of the teams actually moves up or down in the standings. The Cubs and Cardinals battled to a draw: 2 games won, 2 games lost, 17 runs [...]

Ok let me paint a picture for you.  Stay with me here because things might get a little confusing.  A major league baseball team has one of the hottest bats in the minors and a shitty, shitty hitting utility man on the big league squad.  That team’s starting third basemen goes down with an injury [...]

I have been busy as hell with studying for the Bar lately, so I haven’t had a whole lot of time to comment on the Cubs current situation.  It’s not that the 8-game losing streak isn’t a big deal, but how they’ve lost has been painful to watch.  Here are a few thoughts regarding the [...]

Micah Hoffpauir is an absolute monster with the bat.  He has been raking at every level and every spring for a while now.  As usual we all expected the Cubs to send him back to the minors at the end of the spring this year.  Thankfully, Lou made the right call putting his power bat [...]

We are about 2 weeks into Spring Training, and there are some interesting position battles as discussed earlier.  Also everyone is keeping their eye on guys like Harden and Bradley.  How is everyone doing, you ask?  Well here is a brief run-down of the hitters as of last night (pitchers to be discussed in Part II tomorrow): Catchers: [...]

Saw this over at Wrigleyville23 and couldn’t resist passing it on.  First baseman Micah Hoffpauir is hoping to be one of the last few Cubs to make the opening day roster this year.  Saturday he was trying to spread a little good will with the guys via a little ball-tap on Carlos Zambrano. Who knows [...]