The Cubs are on their fourth, and last, opener of the season as they play their first series at Wrigley in 2025. The weather looks slightly cooler than what they had in Phoenix/Sacramento, hopefully it doesn’t cool off the bats as well. Though if the bats cooled down to only scoring say 8 runs a game I guess that would …
Cubs Over Under
Berselius is likely to have a series preview shortly, but in the meantime I thought I’d toss out some over/unders for you to have fun with. What’s your prediction? Are you also now singing an old Sesame Street song, one of Grover’s greatest hits? Added benefit is to see if I can still post things to OV, since it’s been …
The Cubs Meat Grinder
This is partly inspired by a misunderstanding on the Facebook page… I usually try to write such that there is no pronoun ambiguity, but I mistakenly assumed most people who paid attention would know that the Cubs bullpen barely had to do anything while the A’s bullpen was ground into a pulp. I did note some pretty wild overreactions from …
Sacramento is a Launchpad
I think I knew that the California League was traditionally a high offense environment but it seems the Cubs put that into practice. Anyway here’s the highlights.
Cubs 4, Dbacks 3
OSS: TOOTBWIN Three up: Three Down: Next up: The Cubs go for the series win at 3:10 PM CT on Sunday. New Cub Matthew Boyd takes on Eduardo Rodriguez. Don’t pitch to Geno. Or do. I can’t tell you what to do. Unless that thing to do is to extend PCA. Do that please.
Cubs 10, E-Backs 6
OSS: Cubs offense wakes up with a little help from the Dbacks defense Three up: Three down: Next up: Jameson Taillon takes on Merrill Kelly at 8:40 PM CT, with yours truly in attendance. Let’s get a streak going, fellas.
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (0-2) at Arid Zone Diamondbacks (0-0)
We are back again! And not at 4am! Hopefully the results are a little better than Tokyo. The Cubs face a less daunting task than they did against the Dodgers, but the Dbacks are also a very good team. Somehow the Dbacks lined things up such that their big free agent signing, Corbin Burnes, is *not* starting in this four …
Dreamcast 105: Just Start It Up Already
The Cubs are about to play games that actually matter and that we can actually watch on TV, so here’s one final pod before the “real” Opening Day to prepare ourselves for the grind of 160, and hopefully more… You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. You can also use the sidebar to get …
Nearly End of Cactus League Cubs Roster Reset
In the midst of watching Clemson blow it as the better seed in the NCAA tournament, but the news from the comments in the last post showed that Jordan Wicks and Eli Morgan had been optioned to Iowa. We knew going in that the Cubs had an inordinate number of useful relief options, yet very few of them, ironically, were …
A Post-Tokyo Cubs Reset
OK, so the Cubs didn’t do as hot as they could have in Tokyo. Those two losses count and won’t go away, so now they have to make the most of the remaining 160. I could just copy-paste what I wrote last time, but maybe just click over and see. Since the Cubs couldn’t even split (though I’m happy they …