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DeWayne Wise For The AL All-Star Team: Cubs vs. Dodgers, Sunday 5/31, 7:05 CT
Usually this sort of thing is the province of blogs like this one, but Daily Herald sportswriter Lindsey Willhite today promotes voting for players who will hurt their league, depending on which Chicago team you're a fan of, and for the right reason -- because this game shouldn't be used to...
The Magic Fox-TV Wizard Strikes Again: Cubs vs. Dodgers, Saturday 5/30, 3:10 CT
The three games being carried by Fox today are the Cubs game, Atlanta at Arizona and Minnesota at Tampa Bay (sounds like Fox NFL Sunday, doesn't it?), so you can forget about any rainouts in the other games. The Cubs are the feature game, but Fox's link above, unlike other years, doesn't list the...
Joel Piñeiro Turns Into Greg Maddux For One Night: Cubs 0, Cardinals 3
Who would have guessed that last night's Cubs game would end before the Blackhawks game? (That one didn't turn out so well, either.) In last night's game preview, I said I figured it might be among the fastest games of the year because both pitchers, Ted Lilly and Joel Piñeiro, threw strikes...
Soriano's Two HR Help Lead Cubs Over Astros 8-5, But The Chad Fox Mystery Deepens
It's a good thing Alfonso Soriano hit two home runs last night, one of them in the ninth inning, because if Chad Fox had come into the game with only a 4-2 lead, we might not be talking about a Cubs victory this morning. Of course, Fox probably wouldn't have been in the game at all with a 4-2...
Blackout Saturday: Cubs vs. Cardinals, Saturday 4/18, 2:40 CT
Last year, there was a Fox-TV page that listed every market and the game its local Fox station was carrying. Unfortunately, that page is stuck on the games from last September 27 and hasn't been updated. Today, the Yankees/Indians, Cubs/Cardinals and Rockies/Dodgers are the three selections --...
Scheduling Wackiness, Part 12,759: Cubs vs. Rockies, Wednesday 4/15, 1:20 CT
The Rockies are in the middle of a bizarre sequence of games which has had them travel, beginning with the last week of spring training, from Tucson to Phoenix to Tucson to Las Vegas to Phoenix to Denver to Chicago. Today's game is the eighth of the year for both teams; after today, the Rockies...
Hey, MLB: Let Our People Watch On TV!
There was much discussion on this site yesterday in dfrancon's FanPost about various blackouts that were, inexplicably, in place during yesterday's Opening Day telecast of the Cubs/Astros game. (I presume similar blackouts were in effect for other games, but I have no direct evidence of...
The MLB TV Blackout "Geniuses" Are At It Again
Click on map to open a larger version in a new browser window If you thought Bud Selig, Bob DuPuy and the others who "run" (and I use the term loosely) major league baseball were about to revise the decades-old, arcane, MLB television blackout rules, think again. The rules were...
The Cub Can Of Worms: The College Of Coaches
In several of the posts in this series, I've written: "It seemed like a good idea at the time". Not this time. The ill-conceived and poorly-executed College of Coaches was a spectacularly bad idea. After the Cubs had lost 94 games in 1960 -- their seventh 90+ loss year in the previous 13...
State Of Illinois Still Trying To Buy Wrigley Field
Among the colorful language used in the complaint filed against Gov. Rod Blagojevich yesterday (link opens .pdf file) were the words of the governor's wife Patti, who is alleged to have been heard in the background, while Rod was on the phone discussing ways to get back at the Tribune for writing...
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