For those of you wondering how a batter's brain could possibly track and react to a 100mph fastball, the answer is... it can't. But it does do a great job of projecting - at least for that first 60 feet... :-)

Normally, probably not worth mentioning it here except for this little nugget: "...a proposal that will call on $100 million in taxpayer dollars". Not sure if this helps or hurts Ricketts and Cubs efforts at moving forward with Wrigley rehab plans as quickly as possible. Just think it's interesting that Rahm's able to find $100M in taxpayer money...

The Cubs have reached agreement with Rizzo on a seven-year, $41 million contract through 2019, according to major-league sources.

Nice story on ESPN about Samardzija and how he chose baseball over football

Awesome community feature leading up to a mock draft June 1st.

I'm sure Mr. Turley is a good law professor, but its obvious he knows little about the problems with the alderman, community, city and rooftop owners. I'm forwarding this link only because its in a national newspaper. /end of warning.

As part of a tribute to scouts, the HOF has put a bunch of scouting reports on various players on line. They have reports on Billy Williams before he was signed (1958) and as a major leaguer and some interesting reports on Ron Santo. NOTE: I did sometimes have to refresh the page to get past an error when a report was trying to load.

Free land "Cicero is willing to give the Ricketts family what they need to make the Cubs World Series contenders every year, not just once in a century," the letter says, referencing "limitless" possibilities there. "What's holding the team back is the stadium."

Cubs hired "270 Strategies" to run a grassroots campaign in the neighborhood to expand and modernize Wrigley. They're already calling people up and giving away free game tickets.

Regensburg hosted Bad Homburg on Sunday and won 6 to 1.