Category Archives: MLB

Steve Bartman’s Horrifying Moment Changed the Cubs and His Life
October 15, 2013

by Kent Sterling When a player makes a game changing mistake, he faces the nedia after talking with his agent and the media relations staff of his team.  They counsel him on the best course of action to minimize exposure and in what ways the story might quickly fade from memory. Click here to follow […]

Happy Anniversary – 10 Years Ago Today, Chicago Cubs Won Last Playoff Game
October 11, 2013

by Kent Sterling On a Saturday night 10 years ago, I had a party.  A houseful of people watched the Chicago Cubs throttle the Florida Marlins 8-3 at Pro Player Stadium to inch within one game of their first trip to the World Series in 58 years. When Jeff Conine grounded out to short against […]

Joe Girardi to Yankees for Four More Years; Cubs Continue Search for Sap
October 9, 2013

by Kent Sterling Anyone surprised that Joe Girardi decided to stick with the New York Yankees is a moron.  The only hope the Cubs of had of landing the only decent manager with any interest in the job had was that the Yankees would be so dissatisfied with an 85-win season that they might tell […]

St. Louis Cardinals Show Chicago Cubs How to Retool, Not Rebuild
October 7, 2013

by Kent Sterling Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein would like Cubs fans to believe that rebuilding is the road to winning, and that it takes five years.  That the length of his contract is five years is purely coincidental. The St. Louis Cardinals just keep piling up trips to the postseason at a […]

Chicago Cubs Brainstorm May Have Been Reason for Dale Sveum’s Firing
October 1, 2013

by Kent Sterling Meetings happen all the time at businesses to uncover the solutions to problems.  Rooms are filled with people of all stations at a company.  The problem owner (the boss who convened the meeting for the purpose of finding a creative solution to his most troublesome worry) identifies the issue to be discussed, […]

Theo Epstein Fires Dale Sveum Like a Callous Hack
September 30, 2013

by Kent Sterling Didn’t Chicago Cubs President Theo Epstein watch “Moneyball” where Bitt Pitt as Billy Beane taught Jonah Hill how to cut someone, or tell him he’s been traded? Maybe the part with the baseball executive drinking beers with someone being fired was in the Blu-Ray extras, but I didn’t see it. Click here […]

Chicago Cubs Fire Dale Sveum, for All the Wrong Reasons
September 30, 2013

by Kent Sterling Every major league baseball manager knows that he will be fired before he agrees to take the job, and with the Chicago Cubs, they know that the chances of lasting five full seasons are almost nil. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Only one manager in the last half century has […]