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Bo Porter, who broke in with the Cubs as an outfielder back in 1999 and today is the Marlins' third-base and outfield coach, has been counseling the Florida outfield corps in the fine art of negotiating Wrigley Field's ivy-covered brick walls. No word on who counseled Jeremy Hermida on how to hit a Bob Howry meatball , but somebody clearly instructed him pretty well. Things will be quiet ...
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Before tonight's 6-3 win over the Marlins ,
the Cubs officially disabled Kerry Wood . After the
win, the Cubs officially summoned righthander Jeff Samardzija from Iowa. Though Samardzija appeared to be a candidate to share in middle-inning relief ...
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— Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I
found no fewer than eight positives in the concluding
game of the Cubs' mostly miserable 2-4 road trip. — According to the Sun-Times , Tribune Company has pared the field of potential purchasers of the team and the ballpark down to five, with all of those parties having bid at least $1 billion. Mark Cuban is among the five; John Canning, Milwaukee ...
Tuesday night's Cub loss left me speechless, i.e., postless. If it wasn't a certain low point in the season thus far, it is at least in the running. In trying to find some historical context for the Cubs' play through much of the first half—most of it related to the team's stunning record at Wrigley Field—I have continued to stumble across references to 1969 and 1977. In both years, the Cubs ...
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With Arizona's 2-0 victory over the Cubs Monday night, Randy Johnson ran his career record against the Cubs to 13-0. Only one other pitcher in National League history has won at least 10 games against the Cubs without suffering a loss: Sal Maglie of the Giants, who went 10-0 between 1954 and '58. At least Rich Harden, who pitching brilliantly for 7 innings—1 ER, 1 hit, 2 BB, 10 K—has some ...
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Yesterday on ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike Show , one of the Mikes (Greenberg), recounted a conversation he had the night before at the annual White House t-ball game with former Cub Ryne Sandberg. The subject was intimidating pitchers, and Sandberg confided that the only pitcher he was truly afraid to dig in against, a pitcher who actually caused Ryno to stand one step further from home plate ...
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The All-Star break extended through Thursday night here at "A Hundred Next Years." Something new will be up some time Friday. In the meantime, I have a post up at The Cub Reporter regarding the 10 biggest Cubs hits so far this season, according to the exquisite numbers at FanGraphs .
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As a Cubs fan, I have several vivid memories of watching the All-Star Game, all of them back when I was much younger, pre-free agency and pre-interleague play, and the game seemed so much more interesting. One of those moments occurred in 1970, when Pete Rose famously crushed Ray Fosse at home plate to score the winning run in the Nationals' 5-4, 12-inning victory over the Americans ; a play ...
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Naturally I am so worked up over Rich Harden's Cub debut Saturday afternoon, I have no choice but to stay up all night tonight in anticipation. As a result, I am following tonight's late games from the West Coast as they happen, including Sean Gallagher's first start for the Athletics, who are opening a series against the AL West-leading Angels in Oakland. Gallagher pitched the first seven ...
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Tonight I learned that Saturday, July 19th will be "Mullet Night" at U.S. Cellular Field. Yes, the White Sox are making a point of honoring their fans who wear mullets. I believe this is like the Chicago Symphony acknowledging their patrons who love classical music. (Just something you think about when you'd rather not confront the fact that the National League's 12th-highest scoring team ...
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Wednesday afternoon on WSCR, Cubs assistant General Manager Randy Bush contradicted something that had been said about new Cub Rich Harden by the Chicago Tribune's Dave van Dyck Wednesday morning...on the very same WSCR. Van Dyck quoted a scout he spoke to right after Tuesday's trade who said that Harden has reduced his repertoire this season to just two pitches—fastball and change-up—to ...
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Shortly after the announcement of the Cubs' acquisition of Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin from the Athletics on Tuesday afternoon, WSCR's Boers & Bernstein took a call from Dave in Bloomingdale, who decried the Cubs having to give up both Matt Murton—1 HR in 231 AB's this season, with Iowa and the Cubs combined—and Eric Patterson, who has hit the hell out of the ball in the minors, but simply ...
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In the aftermath of the Brewers' acquisition of C.C. Sabathia , Jayson Stark devotes his "That's Debatable" column at ESPN.com to alternately arguing why the Cubs, Brewers, or Cardinals might be the best team in the NL Central. In his argument on behalf of the Cubs, Starks writes: The Cubs were the best team in the National League before this deal. And it won't be easy for [Sabathia], who only ...
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Six box score lines from starter pitchers in Thursday's National League games: 7 IP, 6H, 1 ER 8 IP, 6 H, 0 ER 8.2 IP, 5 H, 1 ER 6 IP, 4 H, 0 ER 5 IP, 4 H, 3 ER 6 IP, 10 H, 11 ER The first four lines belong, respectively, to Mike Pelfrey (Mets), Chad Billingsley (Dodgers), Cole Hamels (Phillies), and Manny Parra (Brewers). The bottom two lines, the mediocre one and the ghastly one, belong to ...
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Geovany Soto has had a wonderful 2008 season , and it seems likely he will be rewarded for it with a starting berth on the National League All-Star team. In Wednesday night's game at San Francisco, he contributed a two-out, two-run hit in the seventh inning that gave the Cubs a three-run lead, which seemed to seal Ryan Dempster's first road victory of the season. (More on that in a moment.) In ...
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I had a busy weekend followed by a busy Monday; so busy, I couldn't watch or listen to a moment of Cubs baseball nor consume any local sports media from the end of Friday's loss to the White Sox to the first pitch of the Cubs/Giants game Monday. I wonder how the Cubs fared this past weekend. I'll bet it was an interesting series. Tuesday at espn.com (subscription required), Peter Gammons ...
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Derrek Lee grounded into two double-plays in Friday's 10-3 loss to the White Sox , one in the first inning, the other, a real back-breaker, in the third inning with one out and the bases loaded against a struggling Jose Contreras.
Just half-way through the season, Lee has already set a career high in GIDP with 19, which is also good enough (or bad enough) to give him the GIDP lead in the ...
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The next few days are important not just for our beloved Cubs and the reviled White Sox, who will play three games on the South Side, but also for several other teams with natural rivals. These pairings so enrich the experience of watching Major League Baseball that they justify enduring the less enriching matchups, like the Braves vs. the Blue Jays or the Angels vs. the Nationals. Don't ...
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The Cubs meet the Orioles shortly in the finale of their three-game series and of the six-game homestand. With a victory, the Cubs will take two-of-three from Baltimore and finish with a 5-1 mark on the homestand. We're getting used to that sort of thing around here. The Cubs' home mark is currently a dazzling 33-9 (.786). Here are the team's records in the six homestands preceding the ...
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Wood is Out, Samardzija is Coming, and Marmol Continues ...