2008 Season Preview: Chicago Cubs

dichalk posted 3/13/2008 from www.yard-work.org [flag]

award-winning hipster-bait Japanese author Haruki Murakami checks in from the Cubs spring training facility in Mesa, Arizona..... I am in a hotel room in Arizona. I usually live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but I am here to write about the Chicago Cubs baseball team. This is because a famous Japanese baseball player, Kosuke Fukudome, is now playing for the Cubs. [link]

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