The Cubs have a decision. Exercise patience, hoping the team magically finds the exuberance that made them so much fun to watch from 2015 to 2017, or sell some parts to restock a depleted farm system. The trade deadline is two days away and president Theo Epstein could try to find a piece of two […]
What better way for a manager to tell a general manager the bullpen sucks than expose one of the pitchers who comprise it? That may be exactly what Cubs manager Joe Maddon did last Sunday when he brought in Carl Edwards Jr. with two outs and two on in the top of the ninth inning […]
People who make bad decisions – or exhibit a lack of behavioral control – in one area will likely make them in others. Such is the case with Cubs second baseman Addison Russell, who was accused in social media posts by his ex-wife of general idiocy that included physical abuse and emotional terror. Russell was suspended […]
The Chicago White Sox have always played second fiddle to their crosstown rival Cubs – always. Even during the few eras when the Sox have fielded a better team, they have been seen as a lesser organization with a lesser ballpark in an inferior part of the city. Former Sox TV voice Hawk Harrelson has […]