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I was on Rotoworld this morning to see whose arms had fallen off overnight and who I needed to pick up for the handful of fantasy games this week, and I happened to notice a very interesting article at the top of their page... the article was titled, "Joe Morgan's classic geezer mistake."  Like a kid seeing boobs on the internet for the first time, I immediately clicked the link.

Apparently NBC Sports has deemed Joe Morgan their "Whiner of the Week" for some rant he had saying how today's generation of players have no respect for the All Star game, and that ratings used to be higher because they left the starters in the whole game...

What a moron.  Maybe they left the starters in, because ONLY STARTERS WENT???  Come on Joe, just retire... you've had enough of this... not only are you making up phony names for the basket at Wrigley, but now you're posthumously expanding the All-Star rosters of yore... just hang it up man, you've had a good run... but it's time to sit in a rocking chair and complain about the kids and their rap music.

Link can be found here (pops).

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/080620&sportCat=mlb

I just read this article over on ESPN... well, it's not so much an article as a "guide to being a better Cubs fan."  Some of the stuff in there is pretty funny.  Especially this one...

"Prior, Mark 1. pitcher, 2002-06 2. thanks, Dusty"

I'm pretty sure this is written tongue in cheek (I've read this guy before, he's usually funny) but it does sort of show you what the Eastern Seaboard Programming Network thinks about the team and our great fans...

Cubbies play an afternoon game against the White Sox, and the Cheifs are playing at 6:30 PM against the Beloit Snappers.

I'm not sure how many of you are within easy driving distance of Peoria, but it'd be nice to get a couple people together for that Friday night game.  Club box tickets are only $10 and usually pretty available even up to game time.  If we can get enough of a group I can talk to one of the guys I know who works for the Cheifs and see if we can't get a nice little discount. 

Anyone who is interested, shoot me an email (listed in my BCB profile) or just comment below and hopefully I'll see a few of you out there!

Hello again everybody! (minus the famous Old Style-driven inflection...)

This is my first post on BCB (what's up with the 24 hour wait?  I wanted to comment IMMEDIATELY!) and I'm really excited to get started.  This site is a great source of info and with how this team is doing, I have a feeling it's going to be VERY popular... very soon.

Anyway, for those of you who follow it (and for those of you who don't, check it out!) Mark DeRosa has updated his blog "The Pulse" over on MLBlogs.com.  His latest post is a gripping story of his childhood struggle with wood sticks and balls wrapped in leather and how the power of cheese helped him to over come those fears.  Kidding. 

He actually talks about the differences between this current team and some of the other teams he's been on, and has some great insight to how you fit into a ball club, and how it's different with this Cubs team versus the Braves teams (perennial contenders) that he's been on in the past.

Check it out over at http://markderosa.mlblogs.com/ .  Also, if you haven't read it before, check out the hilarious interview between Mark and Ryan Theriot, a great read for any Cubs fan.

See you all around!