chicagotribune.com - 6/26/2008
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Baltimore pitching coach Rick Kranitz was one of the first in the Cubs organization to push for Kerry Wood as the team's closer. It happened at the end of the 2005 season, when Kranitz was pitching coach at Triple-A Iowa. "I went out to dinner with [then-Iowa manager Mike Quade and then-Cubs President Andy MacPhail after the season], and everybody was talking about who's going to be the closer ...
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Costas for MLB Commissioner?
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... get that motel room?
Your CSTB Cub Update: as for those of you eagerly awaiting news on Alfonso Soriano’s fractured pinky, the day to day bulletins from Chicago are encouraging. No news on whether he’ll make batting practice, the All-Star game, how this will effect the current Presidential race, or how Soriano’s pinky will help Washington finally move on after Russert … but from the six-weeks of news it’s generating for The Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, there’s obviously a lot resting on that little finger. Only four weeks of ...
Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “At Least One of Us Is an All-Star” Edition
Hire Jim Essian —
... who’s the first Cub to make the All-Star Team. Soriano? Bitch. Soto? Bitch. Fukudome? Bitch. Anyhow, it’s Roundup time.
Hey, I thought you couldn’t pull fat.
Congratulations to the Fresno State underBulldogs for winning the College World Series.
QUICK! Someone drop a bomb on Deadspin while they’re both there!
Rick Kranitz is busy trying to make himself look as smart as I am.
Back in my day, players played until they dropped ...
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