Monday Carlos Silva left the game in the first inning due to an abnormal heart beat. Reportedly, Lou Piniella noticed Silva’s heart was beating and immediately called the emergency medical team since the Zombie Cubs have a strict no show of life policy. Ok, so that might be in bad taste (I sincerely hope Silva [...]

Ted Lilly began the season with a terrific 6-inning performance against the Milwaukee Brewers. He allowed zero runs and three hits while walking just two batters and striking out a respectable four. This past weekend he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning against White Sox. His stat line had him throwing eight innings with [...]

Jay Cutler cleans up pretty nice.  It appears he “got his hair did” for a magazine cover. [Jay Cutler Superstar] Michael Jordan’s perfection explained. [Hardwood Paroxysm] The best fantasy football team names by city.  Yeah, mine is in there for Chicago.  “Offense is not our Forte”.  Bam. [Detroit4lyfe] Ted Lilly was nominated by his teammates [...]

In the last month  or so, 4 pitchers have notched their 100th wins in the major leagues. Carlos Zambrano started  the milestone march, hitting the century mark on June 5th.  Brad Penny then followed on June 17th, with Ted Lilly and Josh Beckett reaching their marks on July 11th and 12th respectively.  Each traveled their [...]

Jerry Reinsdorf opens up about what exactly went down with Ben Gordon last summer.  Doesn’t sound like Jerry thinks Ben is in the plans for next season. [By The Horns] Bradley isn’t the only one who thinks the umps are giving him a raw deal.  Ted Lilly chimed in and got ejected the other day. [...]

After a long delay yesterday, the Cubs finally played their home opener.  My toes are still cold from being out there, and the potato vodka I drank out of a flask is still sitting heavy in my stomach (it’s Passover so I can’t eat or drink most ballpark food).  The game was amazing once it [...]

It was bad weather out there, but the Cubbies won on the back of Ted Lilly’s 6 and 2/3 innings no-hit bid.  Awesome. [Bleed Cubbie Blue] The Sox are getting sued over a little t-shirt cannon incident.  No worries, they have overcome disco demolition night and fans beating up opposing coaches.  This shouldn’t be a [...]

If David Wright hits a two run game winning single to send the United States to the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic and no one sees it, did it still happen?  Apparently so, because the U.S. has clinched a spot in the semis with a win over Puerto Rico and will play the Venezuelans [...]

So the World Baseball Classic is going on and we have paid little-to-no attention to it here.  However, the first round was supposed to be virtually uninteresting right?  I mean the major contenders were expected to advance because they definitely wouldn’t lose twice. Some of the teams I considered major contenders-Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, the United [...]

I know some of our readers are Sox fans and irrationally get mad whenever we write something critical about the Sox (often), but Ozzie just makes it so easy sometimes.  What has our favorite idiot done now?  Well after he ran his mouth that players who get caught doing steroids should be suspended for a [...]

Back in the winter of 2006/2007, the Cubs went out and signed Lilly to a 4 year $40 million dollar contract.  Most Cubs fans and sports media in Chicago felt the organization was overpaying for an underachieving, oft-injured lefty.  Can we finally put that misconception about Lilly to rest?  Not to say that the concerns [...]