SB Nation User Blog: kaseyi

Cubs By The Numbers

kaseyi — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:51:54 -0000

Cubs By The Numbers

I know Al gets most of the kudo's here on the book, "Cubs By The Numbers" (after all...it's his blog), but I was also involved. I thought I would just pass along a nice story from my local paper on me and the book! And remember (obligitory plug coming here) you can easily buy it at Amazon.com. It makes a great Mothers Day or Fathers Day present!

Kasey

Kasey's Winter Classic Pictures

kaseyi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:57:33 -0000

Kasey's Winter Classic Pictures

Here is a quick addition to my website of pictures I took at the 2009 NHL Winter Classic Hockey game held at Wrigley Field on Jan. 1st 2009. (yes, I know the background on the individual pics is a baseball and there are no captions to explain the pictures yet, but these pages are still a work in progress )

Snowy Tuesday Afternoon Name That Cub

kaseyi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:26:33 -0000

Ok Everyone...You had fun with Fonzie2178's "unknown" Cub. Now we have a real hard one. Here are the clues. This picture was taken at Wrigley Field. The player is a Pitcher and yes, he was on the major league roster when this picture was taken. His major league career was extremely short. He was acquired by the Cubs in a very famous trade. NAME THIS CUB! (sorry Al...I know I emailed this picture to you to use, but I just couldn't keep this to myself any longer)

Kasey

My Winter Classic tickets arrived today. I just thought I would post a scan of my ticket so all of...

kaseyi — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:57:07 -0000

My Winter Classic tickets arrived today. I just thought I would post a scan of my ticket so all of you can see what they look like (of course I have erased all the seat information and barcodes)

Oakland owner: Make 1st round of playoffs 1 game

kaseyi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:30:00 -0000

For all of you who think a 3 out of 5 is too short (and I am one of them), I am sure this idea will make your head explode.

Linky

Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball’s postseason: Make the first round best-of-one. "I’d make it one-game-and-you’re-out for the first series," the Oakland Athletics owner said Wednesday. "It would be exciting. It would be great."

"I’ve always thought a one-game wild card (playoff) would be a pretty good idea," said Bob DuPuy, MLB’s chief operating officer. "Lew is an imaginative fellow and has a lot of good ideas."

The playoffs are a crapshoot as it is, to make the 1st round only 1 game is unthinkable in my mind.

Kasey
See what old Cubs scorecards looked like at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/scorecards.html
Also, see the Cubs 2009 schedule at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/sched2009.html

Cranes says Zell Still Pushing for sale by end of Dec.

kaseyi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:50:01 -0000

According to Cranes, the Cubs WILL have a new prospective owner by the end of December. It looks like Zell really needs the money from the sale ASAP and even though it won't be completed in time to make a debt payment, if there is a seller set, the banks should look favorably on Zell.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=31840

Tribune Co. CEO Sam Zell is pushing to have a deal in place by yearend to sell all but a small stake in the Chicago Cubs, despite recent indications that he might retain 50% of the ballclub. Mr. Zell expects to select a finalist from the five remaining bidding groups and submit the deal for Major League Baseball's approval sometime in December, a person familiar with the sale says. He is fast-tracking the sale — despite a credit crunch that seemed to put his year-end deadline in doubt — as pressure mounts to raise as much as $1 billion to chip away at the mountain of debt from his 2007 buyout of Tribune.

Kasey

See my Pictures of the 2008 Cubs at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/cub-pics-2008.html
Also, see the Cubs 2009 schedule at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/sched2009.html

Entire Coaching staff to return

kaseyi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:37:50 -0000

http://www.sacbee.com/baseball/story/1392164.html

The Chicago Cubs announced Wednesday that manager Lou Piniella's coaching staff will return for the 2009 season.

So much for grooming Ryne Sandberg or Jody Davis on the major league level to be Lou's successor. I guess that might also be why Pat Listach took the Nationals position
Kasey

See my Pictures of the 2008 Cubs at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/cub-pics-2008.html
Also, see the Cubs 2009 schedule at http://cubsbythenumbers.com/sched2009.html

Here is a screen shot of the fake Jumbotron that TBS created in Wrigley. I don't know...I guess...

kaseyi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:02:20 -0000

Here is a screen shot of the fake Jumbotron that TBS created in Wrigley. I don't know...I guess I'm an old fogey. I don't like this at all. I was just wondering what the rest of you think.

Kasey

WGN will rebroadcast no-hitter

kaseyi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:25:51 -0000

I heard this mentioned on the WGN news last night and I have not seen it posted here (and if it was and I missed it, I figured a new post would help people find this easier). WGN will rebroadcast the Zambrano no-hitter on Friday at 10 PM. They said it will be on both WGN locally and the Superstation. With this advance notice, everyone will now have a chance to set their DVR's to capture this game for posterity.

Kasey

See my Pictures of the 2008 Cubs at http://ignarski.tripod.com/cub-pics-2008.html
Also, see the Cubs 2008 schedule with game results and TV schedule at http://ignarski.tripod.com/sched2008.html

We need some positive mojo...lets see if this classic from Dwayne Staats from 1989 works....

kaseyi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:45:22 -0000

We need some positive mojo...lets see if this classic from Dwayne Staats from 1989 works. (click on the button to start playing)