Monthly Archives September 2007

‘Whiner’ Cubs Avoid Astros Glide;
Retake Central Lead

So the Chicago Cubs are a bunch of whiners, huh? Well, at least that’s the opinion of Chicago Cub baseball from Houston Chronicle blogumnist Brian McTaggart. He also called the Cubs losers, but most of Cubdom has already acknowledged and accepted that fact.
McTaggart’s assertion stems from the Houston-Milwaukee series, where his homeboy […]

Five Reasons Why the Chicago Cubs
Can Win the Central Division

Anyone who’s visited this blog during the 2007 season knows I haven’t always been the most sympathetic to Chicago Cubs baseball. There’s a good reason for that: I refuse to be another Cub apologist.
Like anyone in Cubdom remembers, last season was a shameful stain - even for a franchise that carries the moniker, “lovable […]

Chicago Cubs Clip Cards;
Signals Changing of the Guard

After all the Chicago Cubs have given to baseball in 2007 - Sammy Sosa’s 600th career home run, Tom Glavine’s 300th career victory and a division race that looks like it’ll go down to the final day - those lovable losers delivered one more present Sunday afternoon.

A new World Series champion for 2007.
In taking three […]

Chicago Cubs Baseball: The Shy Suitors

If the World Series is the Grand Dame at major league baseball’s annual ball, then a division title must at least be her good lookin’ friends. Unless, it happens to be the National League Central Division, in which case, the sloe-eyed, buck-toothed step sister is a more apt description.
Which would explain a lot […]

Weak-End Series Drops the
Chicago Cubs into Second Place

A trip to Pittsburgh. A three-game series against the playing-for-pride Pirates. An opportunity for Chicago Cubs baseball to put distance between contenders Milwaukee and St. Louis as well as a disastrous Wrigley Field homestand.
Instead of making hay, the Cubs stepped in their own manure, proving once again it’s not the size of the […]

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