Archive for the ‘rivalries’ Category

The Interleague Dilemma

Interleague play brings about a decision point for where a fan’s loyalties lie. Enemies become friends, friends become enemies …cats and dogs living together in harmony. For example, with the Cubs playing the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians over the next ten days, are White Sox fans inclined to – gasp – root for the [...]

June 12, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Wrigley Field, controversy, rivalries, schedule  No Comments

Hendry must influence Peavy’s ultimate destination

Cubs GM Jim Hendry may or may not be willing to do what it takes to bring San Diego Padre’s ace Jake Peavy to the Northside. He may not have the lattitude with a management in transition to commit the players or finances to get the deal done. Or he may feel the price is [...]

May 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Hot Stove, Jim Hendry, biz of baseball, players, rivalries  No Comments

Brewers could clinch Wild Card today

With a Brewers win and Mets loss today, the Brewers could clinch the Wild Card. Today’s game being irrelevant for the Cubs, and in my view having the Brewers win the Wild Card being favorable for the Cubs, it may be that both teams will celebrate a Brewers win at Miller Park. If the Brewers [...]

September 27, 2008   Posted in: playoffs, rivalries, standings  No Comments

Corey dating Dusty’s daughter?

Ok, now this is a weird one. We all know from his years at the helm of the Cubs that Dusty Baker like to have “his guys” around him. When he singed as manager of the Reds, suddenly former Cub players started appearing on his roster; Paul Bako, David Weathers, Kent Mercker, Jerry Hairston Jr, and Corey [...]

September 26, 2008   Posted in: oddities, rivalries  No Comments

Wrigleyville Ready to Erupt

The Cubs Magic Number stands at 2 going into today’s action. Any combination of Cubs wins and Brewers losses that equal 2 clinches the National League Central Division Championshipfor the Northsiders!  When that happens – likely over the next couple days (as predicted here on Aug 29) – The Chicago Lakeview neighborhood known as Wrigleyville will [...]

September 19, 2008   Posted in: Wrigley Field, game day, playoffs, rivalries, standings  No Comments

Soto and Lee clutch, Brewers done

With 2 outs and down by 4 in the bottom of the ninth yesterday, the Cubs rallied to tie and eventually won the game in the 12th.  Further evidence this is not your father’s Chicago Cubs ‘lovable losers’ team.  2008 NL Rookie of the Year Geovany Soto cracked a 3 run bomb to send the game [...]

September 19, 2008   Posted in: players, playoffs, rivalries, standings  No Comments

Ned Yost Out as Brewer Manager

Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin has fired manager Ned Yost as of today. This move is long overdue for the free-falling Brewers team, now in jeopardy of winning the Wild Card.  Yost has long been seen as kind of an odd duck kind of manager so this is not really a shock to me. The guy [...]

September 15, 2008   Posted in: observations, rivalries  No Comments

Lilly Got The Message, and Gave One Too

Ted Lilly got the message. He apparently took to heart the message Lou was trying to send to his team via shouting his frustrations in a post-game news conference from a room adjacent to the Cubs locker room. Presumably the team could hear Lou going off after Tuesday’s loss but his message was not anything [...]

September 11, 2008   Posted in: Lou Piniella, players, rivalries  No Comments

Cubs Cruising to the Clincher

Lou Piniella has been commenting on all the historical references coming up these days.  You know, the “…not since 1984″, or “last time that happened was 1935″, “a hundred years since…” stuff.  Lou says he’s not interested in all that, he just wants this team to focus on what is in front of them. Piniella [...]

August 26, 2008   Posted in: Lou Piniella, fan comments, observations, rivalries, standings  No Comments

Dunn-less Reds Have Less Bite

Dusty’s Cincinnati Reds are a mere shadow of their already meager former selves with the absence of notorious Cub killer, Adam Dunn.  The big redheaded slugger hit a whopping 38 home runs against the Cubs in his career with 7 of them coming off of Carlos Zambrano alone.  The guy just plain feasted on Cubs pitching, [...]

August 19, 2008   Posted in: observations, rivalries, stats  One Comment