As expected, the idea that Dale Sveum is kind of thinking about maybe, possibly considering the idea of potentially occasionally batting Alfonso Soriano in the lead-off spot has sparked the kind of panic that one usually associates with one of the Airplane! movies. Of course, the level-headed media that is famous for never over-reacting to things like they're the ones spending …
Kate Upton Dancing and a Cubs Bunting Tournament Update
I know everyone (particularly MO) is deeply concerned about how the bunting tournament is progressing, so here are the results as of a few minutes ago. I'd link to where I got the results, but I had to piece it together from various tweets and stories from Carrie Muskat, Bruce Miles, whoever is running the Cubs coverage at ESPN Chicago …
Cubs Want to Get PAID For the Rights to Televise Them Lose Games
I've been a bit distracted lately as I've been thinking about cats again, but as we all know (I'm assuming), Spring Training is here! With the bunting tournament in full half-swing and Kerry Wood drilling Castro on the wrist today, we're starting to see news on a more regular basis coming from the beat reporters. I am, of course, using …
Cubs’ Training Facility in Dominican Republic Looks Freakin’ Sweet
Tom Ricketts keeps making it harder and harder to mock him. I mean, he pretty much shut us all up when he went out and hired away the top baseball executive available (and one of the top guys alive) to pull the team out of its nosedive into the ground. He's showing that he understands the concept of a sunk …
Garza Wants $10.225M, Cubs Offering $7.95M
Suddenly this afternoon, Jon Heyman’s Twitter feed was full of figures reflecting various arbitration-eligible players’ salary requests and their teams’ starting offers. The teams will have until sometime in early to mid-February to come to agreements and avoid the actual arbitration hearing. The arbitration cases can take place anywhere from February 1 to February 21 and a settlement can be …
Cubs Fans Pissed About Plan That Has No Impact On Their Actual Lives
The 2012 Cubs Convention is in the books and probably the biggest revelation all weekend was that the Cubs plan to build a patio on top of a 70-foot LED display in the right field corner before the start of the season. As you can imagine, this did not play well at all with the “purists.” Assuming that is defined …
Barry Larkin Voted Into Hall of Fame, BBWAA Tells All Others to GTFO
Barry Larkin joined the ghost of Ron Santo as the only inductees in the 2012 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Below are the final vote totals: Barry Larkin 495 (86.4%) Jack Morris 382 (66.7%) Jeff Bagwell 321 (56.0%) Lee Smith 290 (50.6%) Tim Raines 279 (48.7%) Edgar Martinez 209 (36.5%) Alan Trammell 211 (36.8%) Fred McGriff 137 (23.9%) …
Cubs Close on Paul Maholm, Not So Much on Kerry Wood
Bruce Levine tweeted out the news that the Cubs were close to signing a pitcher! But it’s not Kerry Wood, it’s Paul Maholm. Ken Rosenthal has also now chimed in with a similar tweet, so I would imagine we will get to ask Paul Maholm if he’s excited to be a Cub at the Cubs Convention later this week. On …
Cubs Mesh Corporate Sponsorship and a Veiled Reference to Pubic Hair Into Cubs Convention
The Cubs Convention is now a time-honored tradition almost as sacred in the world of Cubs fans as day baseball, the manual scoreboard, the ivy, the urinal troughs, and the years and years of constant losing. It is a time when Cubs fans can join together in the middle of winter to re-connect with Cubs baseball. It allows opportunities to …
Forget Lunch, Kap is Interviewing Theo at Noon Today
Theo Epstein will be joining Dave Kaplan on WGN Radio for Cubs Corner today at Noon central time. Kap’s tweet: Cubs Corner airs live today at noon on @wgnradio when we are joined by Theo Epstein for a one hour interview on the state of the Cubs. If you aren’t in radio range of WGN, click here for the live …