Theriot Gets First Career Grand Slam To Lead Cubs

In the sixth inning of a game where the Cubs trailed 5-2 to the Marlins, Ryan Theriot came to bat with the bases loaded.  As I was watching the game, I was hoping that Alfonso Soriano would hit the three run home run to tie it, knowing that Theriot was on deck.  I'm a huge Theriot fan, and was confident [read more...]

Cubs Struggle Through Week 3

This was far and away the worst week of this first month of the MLB season for the Chicago Cubs.  They managed their lowest total run production, 23 runs, even though they played one more game than they did last week.  With the majority of the runs coming in two games, it made things even worse as they dropped four [read more...]

Cubs Play the Wind to Beat Reds

The Cubs fought through the strong wind blowing in from left field to beat the Reds 7-2.  Actually, they didn't fight through it as much as they did use right field.  Imagine last year's lineup of all right handers trying to do that.  Micah Hoffpauir, left handed hitter, got things started with his first home run of the year in [read more...]

Cubs Drop Game Following Shutout

The Cubs had a bad habit in 2008 of losing every game following a shut out of their opponent.  The trend continues in 2009.  Following Ted Lilly's tremendous performance Monday, the Cubs lost 2-5 to the Rockies.  Rich Harden only went three innings and gave up four earned runs.  What was amazing to me was that he struck out eight.  [read more...]

MLB Week One Recap…Cubs Style

In the classic baseball movie Bull Durham, Crash Davis speaks to the 25 week season with this quote. "Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It’s 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points, okay? There’s 6 months in a season, that’s about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a [read more...]

Cubs Blow Harden’s Lead

Rich Harden...second pitcher picked on my fantasy team....scored 14 points today...but didn't get the win.  No, the Cubs bullpen blew it.  My friend Sean called it as soon as Harden was pulled and Aaron Heilman walked the first Brewer.  I tried to refute his argument, and for a couple innings it seemed to work.  Then in the ninth inning, Kevin [read more...]

First Day of Spring

It is the first day of spring, giving us just 17 days until Opening Day 2009.  Lou took another step yesterday in solidifying what this team will look like on April 6th.  Sean Marshall was officially named the fifth starter following yesterday's game.  He did everything he could to earn in giving up only one earned run in fourteen plus [read more...]

Piniella Projects Pitching Plan

Lou Piniella has indicated he will pick his Opening Day starter by the end of the week.  He isn't giving any hints, but if it isn't Zambrano for the fifth straight year I'll fall out of my chair.  He'll be the first Cub since Rick Sutcliffe to start five straight Opening Day games.  Any long suffering Cub fan identifies Sutcliffe [read more...]

Marshall Looking Like Fifth Starter

Sean Marshall took another step towards claiming the fifth spot in the rotation today.  He pitched a scoreless four innings today, bringing his spring training totals to nine innings pitched, one run allowed.  He leads the staff in innings pitched and has the lowest ERA of any of the pitchers projected in the rotation.  Samardzija and Gaudin aren't even close in ERA.  They have [read more...]

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