Monthly Archives May 2008

Cubs Roll Dice, Come Up Edmonds

Ok, Chicago Cub baseball fans. The hand wringing and gnashing of teeth can stop.
Jim Edmonds is a Cub and it’s all right. It’s even better that he’s going to be manning center field whether at the Friendly Confines or any other major league ball park.
By now, all of Cubdom has read or […]

Cubs Season Keeps Fans in Perpetual Emotion

Question: Which remains the biggest mystery in 2008?

Roger Clemens alleged steroid use
U.S. energy policy
Rubik’s Cube
Chicago Cub baseball
It’s all too confusing for me

If the rest of Cubdom is anywhere near the vicinity of my mindset, “It’s all too confusing for me” looks like my best answer. It also goes along way in attempting to explain […]

Pictures of Lilly

I doubt when members of the Who were penning the song, “Pictures of Lilly,” they had Theodore Roosevelt Lilly in mind. Then again, I wonder how many of us in Cubdom had heard of Ted Lilly the pitcher before his arrival to the Chicago Cubs?
But in two seasons, spanning less than a year, […]

Cubs Continue to Reel in Dis May

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are these Chicago Cubs afterall? That’s the question of the month for those of us in Cubdom, and I’m pretty certain, for the Chicago brain trust as well.
After six weeks of Chicago Cubs baseball I think it’s safe to say that no one knows whether this 2008 version […]

No Defense for Soriano’s Play

What do you get when you have a starting pitcher who can’t finish the first inning, an outfielder who can’t catch and an offense that leaves 13 men on base? The easy answer is another loss for Chicago Cubs baseball.
The more complex answer is a commander-in-chief who’s unbending in his commitments despite repeated negative […]

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