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This past Saturday while in Minneapolis my friend took me to Target Field for a close up look of the new outdoor home of the Twins. Before you read any further, it’s really nice, but it’s not...

  I know you all want to hear that Theodore Lilly lined the field, hit BP grounders, carried the equipment, marked the field and hugged every baby in Des Moines………but all he did was pitch....

We’ve had a lot of discussion about the ambiguous use of the word chemistry and how it relates to having a good clubhouse. I wrote this article late last summer but decided not to post it. Since...

 This is a view from my driveway in the Des Moines area. We received 15 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 50 MPH all day today. Schools, malls, banks, just about everything closed. The drift...

68 pitches must have been the number tonight. With an early class tomorrow I left when Harden got done pitching to a less than crowded night at Des Moines' Principal Park. It was upper 60's,...

I was surprised when I checked my favorite site at lunchtime nothing was posted about the Phillies winning it all last night. Don't call me a Phillies fan because I'm not. I'm a National League fan...

During this three game series against the Brewers we are likely to get a preview of our advance scouting team. In previous years, the Cubs budget was woefully weak in scouting. This came to a...

A recent chance encounter got me thinking of our tradition of singing at the end of the home game wins. I was in the dentist office waiting for a 6 month check up. My cell phone, which rings with...

The Cubs are officially half way through the schedule at 49-32 and the best winning percentage in baseball, albeit a fraction over the Red Sox. A few weeks ago we were on pace for 108 wins, now 98...

How many of you were like me today? 7th inning, down two and said, "We're going to win this, it's only the 7th?" Do you know how absurd that is coming from a lifelong Cubs fan? (My baseball friends...

Remember the Boys of Zimmer? This is a magical season at the Friendly Confines and I can't wait for Paul Sullivan or (ugg) Jay Mariotti to come up with a catchy phrase for this (so far) magical...

Josh does such a good job I thought he needed some help and with a little prodding by Al, I wanted to contribute some "minor" news. I attended a great day at Principal Park today with friends, but...

I stumbled on a partial spring training schedule on this site:http://www.springtrainingonline.com/teams/chicago_cubs_4.htmIt does not have away games but does list home games. In case you're using...

It was pretty easy to understand we would not have home field advantage in the NLDS. When tickets go on sale Thursday for the NLCS how will they be sold? Home game 1, 2, 3 and possible 4? If...

We all need to take note of what has happened with Soto. Many times throughout the year in the minor league reports, Soto was given props for his hitting. Myself and others said this guy deserves a...

As we take a look at the all-star break on where our Cubs should go, we have some choices to make trades, sell players for prospects and/or make some call-ups. I feel we just need to look west to...

I was going to post this the other day just for the laugh I get every Monday when it is published in our local paper. Each week in the Seattle paper their baseball columnist, Larry Stone, has his...

We all know our record is at .500. We have played 22 games against teams that had below .500 records last year and only 10 against teams that had winning records. The next 16 games on our schedule...

Sean Marshall picked up his first win of the season, allowing just three hits and striking out three in 6innings. He retired the first 10 New Orleans batters he faced in a I-Cubs win.If Marshall...

I have not read many postings of the season DLee is having thus far. So, in wasting time on an off day, here's to jumping on the DLee bandwagon. .415 average, leading all major league players....