jon lieber Stories - Bleed Cubbie Blue
Reds Dig The Long Ball: Cubs 7, Reds 12
Maybe it's my fault. I did, after all, sort of predict this in the pregame thread when I said: Let's be realistic. It's going to be warm and somewhat humid today with the wind blowing out. Lilly and Arroyo rank 5th and 6th in the NL in HR allowed. Watch for long balls on both sides this...
Of Jinxes And Homers And Losses
Shake this one off. What else can you do after a loss like this one, 9-0 to the Reds, a game that was over after the second inning? The Reds slammed seven home runs off the Cubs, including four in that second inning. The last time the Cubs gave up four home runs in an inning was nearly eight...
From Wuertz To Chad
Drifting in and out of sleep last night (since I have to get up at 3:30 am for work on Saturdays, and thank you to BCB reader northsider for posting the extra inning comment thread), I woke up just in time to see Skip Schumaker's walkoff HR fly over the RF wall in St. Louis, finishing the Cubs' 5-3...
We Interrupt Your Afternoon To Bring You This Bad Baseball Game
At 12:30 this afternoon, I sat down to watch today's game, enjoying watching the sunshine in Pittsburgh and figuring that by 3:00 or so, I'd be able to go run the errands and do the rest of the things I needed to do today. Four hours and forty-seven minutes later, I finally went out to quickly...
Yawn
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- It was a gorgeous, not-a-cloud-in-the-evening-sky night in the Valley of the Sun. A full house, nearly half Cubs fans, at Scottsdale Stadium. (Including a mother and daughter who sat down in front of us, downed about 8 beers between them -- probably at a cost of over $50...
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