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Every game counts
The current MLB season feels a lot like most NFL seasons. Even the best teams have survived losing streaks and endured critical injuries. As a fan of a couple teams battling for postseason spots every game is mattering no matter what the front offices tell us. The Cubs completed a 7-game road trip in St.…
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A cautionary tale
In case you haven’t noticed, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are the leading vote getters in the upcoming MLB All-Star game (ASG) and will be starting for the AL and NL respectively. In order to make the team, the other players have to survive different phases of voting. I don’t understand the specifics, but figure…
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You can’t escape it
Every ballpark in professional baseball has a backdrop whether the team likes it or not. It’s unclear to me if the designers and city planners make the effort to study the neighborhood before construction starts. Even if you’ve never been to a particular ML ballpark, you are probably aware of the backdrop-especially if it’s an…
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A trip to the IL and St. Louis in 18 hours
Planning my recent trip to STL began a couple of weeks ago when I heard that my cousin Lois might be in town when the Cubs and I were going to be there. I figured a midweek, four-game series might offer a better chance at reasonably priced tickets. More importantly, I’d be able to hit…
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Hardly what I expected
In less than an hour I’ll be driving down 55 to see the Cubs play the Cards in Busch Stadium, and instead of seeing the Cubs take the four-game series with an easy win, I hope to see them win for the first time in four days. STL has completely clobbered the Cubs. More important…
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Numbers may or may not lie
As a kid that could tick off batting averages for both lineups in most games I attended as a young Cubs fan in the mid-70’s, I appreciate simple baseball stats. However, randomly selected numbers for meaningless narratives are less my thing. like passionate baseball fan, Shakira, I believe that the hips don’t lie. In today’s…
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Forget Athens v. Sparta
Regardless of how Game 7 of the NBA finals end tonight, I don’t expect a real rivalry between the Pacers and Thunder. There’s neither any oomph or bad blood between any of the participants. Editor’s note: Bad blood isn’t a requisite for a productive rivalry. As sports fans we hope for rivalries because we think…
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Choices
Long before I found out it was going to be miserably hot today and that I wouldn’t have to work, I was pondering which of three or four (reasonably close) ball games I could attend today. Luckily, I didn’t purchase a ticket to any of the games. As I was discussing with a friend, age…
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Coming home or Much Ado?
Based on the coverage of Sammy Sosa’s long-awaited return to Wrigley Field yesterday, there are still a gamut of emotions and opinions on the slugger’s place in Cubs history and folklore. I have no desire to relitigate his place in ML history nor if what he did warrants exclusion. Nothing he did or said this…
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Schedule quirk
It’s pretty uncommon that both the White Sox and Cubs will be at home at the same time. In the past you’d read accounts of intrepid fans that would catch both games via the Red Line. Yesterday, Mother Nature intervened as both games were postponed hours before first pitch. Because the Cubs and Cards play…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 