by Kent Sterling The Cubs were in trouble. President of baseball ops Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer looked at their roster, and had no idea where the Cubs would find a workhorse to eat innings. Matt Garza couldn’t be counted on because of his elbow, and free agent acquisition Scott Baker was still […]
by Kent Sterling This is the fourth straight year the Cubs have been a terrible baseball team. When people talk about the reasons for their low quality of play, a black cat at Shea Stadium and a billy goat that belonged to the Sianis family are recited. The truth is that baseball is played by […]
by Kent Sterling Andre Dawson had one of the quickest bats in major league history, a cannon for a right arm, and now is using another asset to help owner Tom Ricketts find his checkbook – the truth. Dawson spoke with the Chicago Sun-Times Gordon Whittenmyer and said some insightful and obvious things: “I never thought […]
by Kent Sterling There is only so much a man can take. Dale Sveum is the manager of the Chicago Cubs, but he’s a competitive human being first. He’s tired of losing. Sveum vented last night before the Cubs blew another save – this one in the 13th inning – to lose to the Cincinnati […]
by Kent Sterling There is no punchline worthy of the beginning of baseball’s best joke – How stupid are Cubs fans? Scores of sentimental dork sportswriters romanticize this ridiculous bunch. Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times extolled the virtue of the 2.88 million who poured through the turnstyles to watch one of the worst teams […]