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Friday, April 6th, 2012
The Chicago Cubs are one game into the Theo Epstein era, and though the Cubbies failed to get off on the right foot in yesterday's season opener, expectations and enthusiasm is at a fevered pitch in the Windy City. Why? Because Cubs fans are confident they have the right man ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Ozzie Guillen was managing the team on the other side of Chicago while Carlos Zambrano pitched for the Chicago Cubs, but that doesn't mean he didn't realize the situation. He knows Zambrano personally and predicted he would win 15 games last year because he was passionate and wanted to prove ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
The first move of the Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer era in Chicago was to hand Mike Quade his walking papers. After a seven hour meeting with the Cubs manager, Epstein decided it would be best for the organization to part ways with Quade and hire a new skipper who he felt ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The Chicago Cubs have made some big splashes in free agency that haven’t amounted to much. This time instead of bringing a player to Chicago, they brought a new President of Baseball Operations to run the show in the Windy City. After yet another disappointing season on the North Side ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
There was a time when Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano was one of the better pitchers in the game. While that time has passed, Big Z is still one of the most interesting personalities in the game. His career was really derailed because of his at times uncontrollable temper. Zambrano has ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
The Chicago Cubs went into the 2010 campaign with the expectations of making a World Series title run under former manager Lou Piniella, who was looking for one more lasting memory before he hung up his managing cap. When the dust settled for the Cubs at the end of the season, the ballclub had ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
While just about everyone else in Major League Baseball has severed any ties with BALCO founder Victor Conte, Chicago Cubs outfielder Marlon Byrd is trying to help him. Conte, the face of the sports steroids scandal, did his time in jail and is back at work in providing nutritional supplements.
While he's ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Chicago Cubs recently signed a one-year deal with Kerry Wood worth roughly $1.5 million. The right-hander pitched for the Cubs from 1998-2008, and spent ’09 with the Cleveland Indians and pitched for both the Indians and Yankees in 2010. He hasn’t been able to stay consistently healthy or effective ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
Wrigley Field, which was built in 1914, is one of the last remaining original ballparks in baseball, and in an attempt to maintain it and keep it with the times the Chicago Cubs have renovated the stadium a number of times. Now instead of doing as-needed patchwork here and there ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
The Chicago Cubs decided to keep Mike Quade as their manager, choosing to go with the man that managed the team to a 24-13 record rather than their former Hall of Fame second baseman, Ryne Sandberg. Quade, who was the team’s third base coach before serving as the team’s interim ...
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