The Cubs are ringing in the new year with their biggest move of the off-season. They signed Marlon Byrd for 3 years and $15 million. I know very little about Byrd, but I do know that although he is 32 years old, he has really blossomed in the last three years with Texas. I wonder [...]
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If you have not been able to download the last few podcast episodes in iTunes and you are getting the “invalid podcast URL” error message, we apologize.
You can listen to the podcasts right here on the site.
We are trying to get this resolved and thank you for your patience. I suppose it’s better to have [...]
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It’s our first off-topic episode. If you download off iTunes, go to www.ivyenvy.com for scans of the baseball cards in our ridiculous card photo competition.
Viewing these cards might make the podcast might make it more enjoyable. Please give us your take on these cards and if you have any ridiculous cards you’d like to share [...]
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So the Bradley situation has come to an end. The Cubs got rid of their “clubhouse cancer” and picked up a pitcher with pretty terrible stats. But at least Silva will hopefully be friendly with his teammates and even possibly talk to them in the locker room. Maybe even snap someone in the ass with [...]
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It’s been no secret that since the Cubs pulled a virtual no-show at the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis, Cubs fans have been a little anxious about the lack of off-season activity. But, once again, the Cubs show us that we have no reason to question or doubt them. So, while the Phillies ink Roy Halladay [...]
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This weekend, we will be recording an off-topic podcast. We will pull out our baseball card collections and see what happens.
We want to hear your baseball card stories. Amazing trades, cards tossed aside that you wish you had back, favorite brand/years/designs. Send us your stories and we’ll put them on the air. All you have [...]
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Though the only news I’d really like to hear from the Cubs right now would be a trade sending Milton Bradley out of town, I was happy to hear that Ryne Sandberg will be managing the Iowa Cubs next year. Des Moines is only about 2 1/2 hours from Ivy Envy headquarters and I expect [...]
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Andy and Corey get together with regular guest, Matt Veto from the Argus/Dispatch to show how little we pay attention to the Cubs for the first couple of months of the off-season.
Also, Matt from WrigleyBound gets us up to date with Cubs guys in the Arizona Fall League.
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There hasn’t been much going on with the Cubs to pull me out of my blogging hibernation. I hope you can forgive us for the lack of activity on Ivy Envy. As a Cubs fan, I’m sure you can understand the need to take a little time off from our boys in blue. It’s good [...]
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