Posted on May 26th, 2010 by Andy
The Cubs came through last night with a 3-0 victory over the Dodgers. Kershaw is a tough pitcher and looked pretty sharp last night. Fortunately, Rafael Furcal’s defense didn’t. Kershaw only gave up one unearned run due to a Furcal error, and Lee’s 2-run homer was off the bullpen. Dempster was his usual self last [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2010 by Corey
The Cubs losing baseball games hurts. The Cubs losing to Dusty Baker really hurts. The Cubs bullpen blowing a lead late in the game to Dusty Baker…that makes me want to circle Wrigley Field drinking my pain away. I can handle losses like the one the Cubs were dealt on Opening Day. These blown games [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Corey
The Cubs wrapped up their opening series in Atlanta last night and head to Cincinnati for their first look at an NL Central Division foe. So let’s take a look back at this, the first series in the 2010 season.
Monday: Braves 16 – Cubs 5
Pitching: Zambrano was bad, Samardzija was worse. Zambrano leaves with [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Corey
1. The Cubs, yet again, make an un-proven and mediocre (at best) pitcher look like the best pitcher in baseball. I understand that if guys haven’t faced a pitcher before, it might take an at-bat to get used to his release. But Lehr wasn’t getting his fastball out of the mid-80′s and he held the [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Corey
Since I’m on vacation, I’m a bit out of the loop. This may have been discussed on Chicago-based and national sports radio. It may be the biggest news in sports or it’s so flimsy nobody has noticed it. I have no idea if this is true and I’d suggest you give it the same amount [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Corey
There’s been quite a bit of discussion in the Cubs blog-world about benching slumping veterans in favor of the young hot hands. I don’t understand this and I don’t mean to discount Hoffpauir’s talents, but I’d take Derek Lee in the lineup over Hoffpauir every game.
This is typically one of those arguments that is purely [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Corey
I’ve been putting off this post for a few days, but a Monday night with no Cubs game and a wife that wants to watch The Bachelorette is giving me the 20 minutes it takes for me to construct a post and then go back and attempt to fix all my grammatical errors.
During Lou’s presser [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2009 by Corey
It was really nice to see a bruised and battered Cubs team win last night’s game in a manner that you’re supposed to when facing an ace pitcher.
1. Count on your pitcher to keep things close. Harden pitched a good game.
2. Attempt to force a high pitch count to push the starting pitcher out [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Corey
I couldn’t wait until the Cubs faced Yusmeiro Petit to attempt some creative headline like that. Now I’d like to see the Cubs face him again since he gave up 7 earned runs in 3 2/3 innings.
Of course, the big news of the 11-3 victory was Carlos Zambrano. On the mound, Zambrano went [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Andy
It was a tough loss today. I didn’t get to watch much of the game, but I did get home to see the end and Koyie Hill spike the ball in frustration. So, should we start worrying about Gregg? I don’t think so. Cotts was much more to blame for the loss Tuesday than Gregg. [...]
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