Ivy’s Cubs Game Recap: Cubs Flail and Fail at the ATL
Well that didn’t take long, the Cubs were swept for the first time in this young 2013 Season thanks to the Atlanta Braves. Even though it was warmer in Atlanta compared to Pittsburgh, that wasn’t...
View ArticleMy Life As A Cubs Fan
I was born in December 1965 at Skokie Valley Hospital and raised primarily in the suburbs of Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg. My father, of course, was a Cubs fan and of course I grew up a Cubs fan as...
View ArticlePlayoff Chaos
As you know, the Cubs weren’t able to do any trolling today, losing to the rival St. Louis Cardinals. Starlin Castro had a pretty good game, though. That was nice. The unfortunate thing about being...
View ArticleCan’t Sneak In
I was just looking at this after the Dodgers lost to the Rockies to finish tonight’s slate of games. It seems that in 2013, every team that makes the playoffs from either league will need at least 90...
View ArticleYoung Pitching Can Accelerate Cubs Timeline
All we have heard about since Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer have taken over is a business plan and a baseball plan matching up and this magical time of “the plan” all coming together. The baseball side...
View ArticleThe Editorialized Version of Moving From WGN
Growing up in the ’90s during the resurgence of the Packers in the shadow of Lambeau Field (I know…BOO HISS EVIL!), it would have been easy for me to end up as another fair weather (which there never...
View ArticlePotential Darwin Barney Trade Partners
As we sit today, the Cubs have a pretty well stocked system of position prospects. With Starlin Castro being under contract for the next six years, there is one infielder whose value is tied to what...
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The Shark List: Ranking the Potential Landing Spots
As we move into June, and past the amateur draft next week, trade winds are going to start blowing just a bit harder than they have been over the first two months of the season. With so few teams...
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Six Questions the Cubs Hope to Answer in Spring Training
As we enter the last weekend without Cubs baseball for at least the next 7 1/2 months, it has become time to focus on events, roster battles, and stories that all figure to take place during Spring...
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Cubs Left With Nothing but Bad Options for E-Jax
Problems with finding a stadium that he spent his first spring with the Cubs working at aside, Edwin Jackson‘s time with the Cubs has been a colossal disappointment. After signing a 4 year, $52M deal,...
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Amidst Uncertainty, Cubs Not Without Starting Options
Theo Epstein said it explicitly. The Cubs are going to seek to add to their starting rotation. And that makes sense for a lot of reasons. The biggest reason is that there is no way in the world that...
View ArticleCubs and Braves Present Strong Trade Match
Over the past couple of seasons, the team the Cubs have been most associated with in acquiring starting pitching from is the New York Mets. They are, as we saw in the playoffs, loaded with young...
View Article2016 Division Preview: 5th Place Cincinnati Reds
In the beginning stages of what appears to be a significant roster overhaul, the Reds enter the 2016 season with more questions than answers. After trading away Johnny Cueto and Mike Leake last summer...
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Quick Thoughts
Every so often, even powerful juggernaut type teams will sputter. I guess the best news for today’s game is that the Chicago Cubs fought back, generally played well except for a bad hiccup in one...
View ArticleIvy’s Roundup – The Easy Part is Done
Let’s get right to it and recap the Cubs rain-shortened home stand against the Brewers and Braves: Brewers @ Cubs 4/26: W Cubs 4, Brewers 3 W: Warren (2-0) L: Nelson (3-2) SV: Rondon (4) The game...
View ArticleIvy’s Roundup – Cubs Getting Their Phil Of Victories
1908, Black cats, Bartman…those are some of the many things that Cubs fans have heard over the years but this year’s Cubs are providing real hope and it’s very hard to find flaws in this team. With a...
View ArticleFun at the Not-So-Old Ballpark
Mere hours after the end of the 2016 MLB Draft and a great many fans freaking out because the Chicago Cubs lost to the Atlanta Braves, the Cubs remembered that they were good and pummeled the Braves....
View ArticleEver Wanted to See a Dominant Team?
The Chicago Cubs are much better than their record against bad teams would suggest, and they gave an old-fashioned ass-whupping to a bad team today as they pummeled the Atlanta Braves 13-2. Bill...
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Ivy’s Roundup – Finding Meaning In Small Samples (PLUS COOKIES)
Last time, when Ivy had time (no thanks to her coworker from Hell), we saw the Cubs win another series from the Philadelphia Phillies, so that was fun. This year, the NL East is pretty much just the...
View ArticleCould Cubs be Better off Moving Jason Hammel to the Bullpen?
The news that the Cubs sent Adam Warren to Iowa to stretch out for spot starts wasn’t exactly a surprise. Warren has been going through some struggles, so sending him to a low stress environment to...
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