Sweet. Babbling. Jesus.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that there’s a scheme afoot to have the State Of Illinois buy Wrigley Field from the Chicago Tribune. Apparently, this would maximize the amount of cash the Trib would get. Oh, there’s noise about how this would “protect” Wrigley Field should the new owner be some sort of [...]

Phil Luciano has jumped on the Bradley University Soccer bandwagon. He admits it. He doesn’t care. He finds the whole three-victories-away-from-a-national-championship thing absolutely riveting:

Saturday night at home, with the team playing in Maryland, I kept dashing to my computer, desperate for updates. College soccer scores are hard to find, especially mid-game.
And when the [...]

The Woodruff Warriors are 3-0.

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.
– Hank Aaron

It’s official: The Cincinnati Reds will continue to be a sucky franchise. They’ve hired Dusty Baker as manager.
Lets take a brief look at Dusty’s managerial experience:
Baker managed the Giants for 10 years, leading them to the World Series in 2002. He left San Francisco after a falling out with ownership and went to the Cubs, [...]

The NLDS did not end the way I’d hoped. I grew so frustrated that I was flipping channels and eventually went to watch it on the computer readout rather than see it unfold on the TV. All those men left on base. Soriano not hitting much of anything and Ramirez waving [...]

Well, it’s over. Three games in and my beloved Cubs are watching the playoffs on television.
Let’s see, who can we blame this on? The goat? None around. A black cat? Nope. That jerk Bartman? If he was at Wrigley Field yesterday, it’s news to me.
The Cubs were just out pitched and out hit. I [...]

Let’s hear it for the Mets:
No major league team had owned a lead of seven games or more with 17 to play and failed to finish in first place. New York, which had that margin on Sept. 12, matched the largest lead blown in September. The 1934 New York Giants (Sept. 6) and 1938 Pittsburgh [...]

I wonder what it is.
Oh, yeah, I know. The Cards and White Sox fans have stopped talking smack. I wondered why it was so quiet around here.

Mike Nadel wrote a very thoughtful column that talked up the Cubs chances of an eventual World Series victory, despite having won just 84 victories. Too bad the “moran” who wrote the headline, which stated exactly the opposite, must have been a stinking Cardinals fan.
The headline: ‘Go Cubs go: Will they win it all? [...]

I love this song …
And I stumbled across this clip, which brought a tear to my eye:
To understand exactly why Cubs fans love Andre Dawson, you have to remember that the man not only gave us games like the one presented above, he was a complete class act, and he literally had to beg to [...]

My parents named me after my dad. While that’s cool, it’s not as cool as this:
His parents are Paul and Teri Fields of Michigan City, Ind. They are - no surprise - Cubs fans. They planned the name for years before their son’s birth.
Wrigley Alexander Fields was born Sept. 12 at an Indiana hospital.
Cubs spokeswoman [...]

Here’s the thinking behind this column: The guy who’s buying the Chicago Tribune company will sell the Chicago Cubs to help lower down the company’s dept. Therefore, the more he gets for the Cubs, the more debt he can erase. The more debt gets erased, the more reporters will get to keep their jobs/ And [...]

Via this site:
New York Magazine reported on Sunday that Rodriguez could end up with the Chicago Cubs next season with a contract that could be worth as much as $30 million a year for 10 years and includes an ownership stake in the team.
The All-Star third baseman can opt-out of the $252 million contract [...]

The Cubs are 2 1/2 games up with seven games to play. Is is time yet to run the “magic number” graphic the blog?
UPDATE: It’s 4:32 p.m. on Sunday. The Cubs have won and the brewers have lost. The magic number is now 4. It’s showing as “6″ in the sidebar.