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An unpopular position
Before Sox fans get mad at me, I’m not posting about the Cubs current shortcomings because I’m unhappier than usual with Jed Hoyer’s explanations for their offensive shortcomings and Rossi’s poor decision making. I’ve hit my breaking point with the Tim Anderson narrative. For most of Mark Prior’s Cubs career, we had to endure “When…
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Nobody’s perfect…
No team is immune to major injury. If you believe that your favorite team has secret knowledge to keeping pitchers off the injured list, you’re naive at best. In fact, the most brilliant baseball minds are not any smarter than you or I. Case in point, the Rays Drew Rasmussen just went on the 60-game-Il…
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What Yogi said about the game being mental.
As I’ve discussed with several friends on multiple occasions everyone that reaches the ML has supreme talent and I’ll never diminish what it takes to get there. There are numerous reasons (excuses) as to why some guys achieve greater success than others. What often separates players is their mental toughness and their ability to adjust,…
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Weathermen and baseball
I have no idea what role the new rules play in the craziness surrounding MLB this year. Predicting the weather correctly is like predicting which teams will go on a winning streak. Someone is always offering explanations for the mistakes. As a diehard Cub fan, I’d love to say the Cubs are going to annihilate…
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Don’t throw away that Cubs ticket just yet
When I first thought about this post, I wasn’t going to talk about today’s weather, but it is reminiscent of the weather 25 years ago today. I’m going to continue riffing on the 1998 season especially as how it pertained to the Cubs. In case you missed it, yesterday Matt Mervis made his long-awaited ML…
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Shakespeare and baseball
Most people wouldn’t think to compare the spark professional sports teams seek with Shakespearean love, but I love the analogy. It burns brightly at first but is extinguished equally as quickly. Think Romeo and Juliet. Every sports team is looking for that Willis Reed moment when his mere appearance on the court saved the Knicks.…
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Trend or coincidence?
Within one week, two #1 seeds, the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Bruins, were ousted from their respective playoffs in the first round. Only a few months ago, #1 Purdue was beaten by Farleigh Dickinson in the round of 64 for only the second time in NCAA history. Is the rise of the ultimate underdog a…
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You can’t judge a book by its numbers
What would you expect if I told you one team had 17 total bases and one player hit 2 two-run homers and drove in 5 runs and the other team only had 7 total bases? Yesterday afternoon, friend David and I headed north of the border to see the Brewers host Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani…
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Tradition..
Even younger fans obsessed with capturing everything on their smart phones and then social media, appreciate some traditions. Spend five minutes in and around Wrigley Field and you’ll see hundreds of people capturing all of the landmarks and traditional aspects of Wrigley. People love the statues, the marquee on the facade, the ivy, the flagpoles,…
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How much do the Bears mean to Chicago?
Sox rookie manager Pedro Grifol owes the Bears big time. Were the Bears not in the middle of the NFL draft making all sorts of questionable decisions, the local media might be forced to talk and write about the Sox. We all use distractions to our advantage, whether it’s to switch subjects during a cocktail…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 