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Monthly Archives June 2008

Orioles Give Cubs Homestand Hype the Bird

With one fell swoop and a few laid eggs, the Chicago Cubs mighty homestand went to the birds.
Both literally, and figuratively.
Today’s 11-4 drubbing by Baltimore officially added an exclamation point that ended the Cubs recent Wrigley Field success. Another way to put it would be, Chicago Cubs baseball got the bird - Orioles style.
Except […]

Posted 26 June 2008 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)

ChiSox Sweep Takes Sting From Cubs Road Woes

All it took was a little home-cookin’, Friendly Confines style, for Chicago Cubs baseball to regain its footing as the National League’s dominant team.
That’s right. I just used dominant team and Chicago Cubs in the same sentence.
And meant it.
Following a Tampa Bay Devil Rays sweep and one day removed from picking the stingers out […]

Posted 23 June 2008 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)

Karma Bug Bites Cubs

I believe in Karma. Both the good and the bad varieties.
Right now Chicago Cubs baseball is getting a dose of the bad.
Since leaving Toronto last Sunday with a 7-4 win our Cuddly Cubs have become the bad news bearers. All within the span of a short - or depending on how you look […]

Posted 19 June 2008 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (1)

Baseball Gods Talk; Cubs, Padres Walk

Maybe the Baseball Gods were telling us something when yesterday’s Hall of Fame exhibition game was rained out.
Maybe they were saying the time when players gave openly and willingly back to the sport was a thing of the past and to allow this generation of baseball players to step foot on this sacred ground would […]

Posted 17 June 2008 † Corked Bat § Major League Baseball News & Opinion § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)

Cubs Continue Quest to Quiet Ghosts

There’s few, if any of us in Cubdom who remember the last time the Chicago Cubs raised this much ruckus in June. Or May or April for that matter.
But that isn’t stopping the 2008 version from chasing, and catching, some ghosts of Cub baseball past. Even if decades - and sometimes centuries […]

Posted 15 June 2008 † Corked Bat § Comments & Opinion ‡ Comments (0)
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