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One For The Ages: Cubs 10, Rockies 9
HAMILTON, New York -- I had just arrived at my 30-year college reunion, set up the computer to watch a bit of the game via MLB.TV before heading out to check out campus, and the score was 7-0 Rockies....
Feel Better Now? - Cubs 12, Pirates 3
The Cubs started hitting almost the very second that the Pirates' Zach Duke took the mound and didn't stop all night, registering nineteen hits, scoring in seven of the nine innings and blowing out th...
Lilly Out Of The Valley
Just before Ted Lilly stroked his RBI single up the middle, I said to Howard, "Man, he has about the worst swing I've ever seen." Howard agreed. Lilly had fouled a couple of balls off and flailed rath...
Excitable Boy
Well he went down to dinner in his Sunday best Excitable boy, they all said And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest Excitable boy, they all said Well he's just an excitable boy... -- Warre...
Reversal
Quite a number of things got reversed in today's 3-2 Cub win over the Pirates, not the least of which was the weather; predictions of possible rain rumbled by early this morning, but the only rumbles ...
Fonte-NOT
This afternoon was not Mike Fontenot's finest hour as a major leaguer. In fact, it was likely his worst -- he left seven men on base, coming up three times with runners on (once with the bases loaded,...
In Tribute
On a night when many players and some entire teams -- nine of them -- honored the legacy of Jackie Robinson by wearing his retired number 42, Derrek Lee, who you see above (along with the Reds' Ke...
Them's The Breaks
Sometimes things just go your way and it doesn't make any sense and when that happens... well, you just smile and take it, and be happy. The Cubs had absolutely no business winning today's game. Bu...
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 thin...
Friday Photos
Alfonso Soriano throws in after overrunning Miguel Tejada's triple Soriano at 2B D-Lee and Ryan Theriot execute a perfect hit & run in the 8th inning Mark DeRosa's 9th innin...
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