Category Archives: Chicago Cubs

Cubs botch Marquee Network launch – profiteer owner Tom Ricketts pushing fans away
February 24, 2020

Who can and can’t watch Cubs baseball?  No one knows. Fans thought that signing up for DirecTV or Hulu+ would allow then to catch Saturday’s spring training opener.  For a variety of reasons, that didn’t happen for any of the Hulu+ subscribers and some of the DirecTV folks. Marquee still has no deal with YouTube TV, […]

Chicago Cubs will protect fans by extending nets – which should be unnecessary
January 28, 2020

Sometimes, it is decided that people need to be saved from their own inability to protect themselves. Such is the case at Wrigley Field where the Cubs will string protective netting beyond where the old bullpens used to be because people are seemingly incapable of shielding themselves from foul balls. According to a study by ESPN’s […]