rivalry Stories - Bleed Cubbie Blue
Sweet! -- Cubs 2, Cardinals 1
It was really considerate of the city of St. Louis to shoot off fireworks for the Cubs' 2-1 win over the Cardinals, wasn't it? Just as Kerry Wood was finishing off the victory, the grand finale of the downtown St. Louis 4th of July fireworks show splashed across the sky -- you could hear the...
The drums of war sound again
In the long, glorious, storied, mythical history of Major League Baseball, many rivalries have managed to stand the test of time. Yankees-Red Sox, as much as most of us are sick to death of the "end of the world" nature of their current feud, is a great sports rivalry. Cubs-White Sox was a...
A couple of more thoughts about slaughtering the Yankees
We don't play this game on paper! Shut it, Squinty. You give hating the Yankees a bad name. This is sort of a "random thoughts" idea, although I really don't like how "random thoughts" sounds. I don't like the word "random." It gets used too much. That, in itself, is a random thought. Or, really, I...
It's time to call them...the Nationals.
I was thinking about how I always call our forced rivals, the Warshington "Nationals," the Expos still, and though I've explained many times that this is in no way a shot at the Nats (for the record, in case you ever missed it, I just think Expos is a cool ass name for a baseball team), I'm now...
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