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Chicago Cubs Midseason Review

We have reached the midway point of the 2008 Cubs season and the season has gone about as well as any of us could have hoped. Great pitching, solid clutch hitting and contributions from every player has led the Cubs to the top of the National League Central and tied for the best record in baseball with the Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem of California of the United States of North America of the Planet Earth.

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Cubs win 4 straight- still inconsistent

   Seven games into the new season, the Chicago Cubs are showing signs of brilliance. They’ve won four straight games through Wednesday. However, they’re still inconsistent. Adam Niemi highlights and discusses them, along with the NL Central division.

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It’s a Temple to me

   In 2006 Adam Niemi took the eight hour trip with his family to finally see a game at Wrigley Field. Adam shares his experience and offers insight to the big effect that a new ballpark name would do to the most loyal fans on earth.

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Cubs- anyone??

At the start of the season the Chicago Cubs were, to coin a Britiah phrase, bloody awful. Now they are the hottest team in the Major Leagues.

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Curse No More?

The Chicago Cubs will enter the 2007 MLB season with an anticipated hype. They are now fighting to be Chicago’s best team, and it feels like there is no more curse on this ball club.  Will the Cubs live up to the high standards set out for them?

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Unfriendly Confines

The Chicago Cubs are experiencing yet another losing season, and the blame is squarely on the shoulders of two men: Steve Bartman and Dusty Baker.

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Shift by Matt Waters

“The stars… there’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there .”             – Elias, Platoon

A swing and a drive, followed eternally with a hop and a skip.

It was a big deal once, major news.

His joy was unbounded, unburdened, never prescribed to carry a synthetic image.

We were so ready for it to be real, zero questions were asked, no probing investigation regarding his jubilant sprint out into his fixed position in right, nary a cynic’s viewpoint following his indulgent celebrations.

The negativity had run its route. A new hero had emerged from a harrowing fog. Life not only welcomes simplicity in some instances, it demands it.

He is Sammy Sosa, in case we forget.

 

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It’s the Same Old Story in ChiTown

Ahhhh…..the weather is getting warmer.  The snow has begun to melt.  You’re breaking out your shorts and flip-flops, and you may even begin to start the process of opening your swimming pool.  It’s spring…and it’s also baseball season.

Fans in baseball towns around the country – from Seattle to Boston to Miami – are preparing for a new baseball season.  The smells of the fresh-cut grass on the field and the sounds of the bat hitting the ball are ringing loud and true.

And yet, the north side of Chicago is experiencing the same thing they’ve experienced the past few seasons – star players on the disabled list.

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C’est La `D’!

By: Jon Morrill

    In the past two weeks, the Chicago Cubs have acquired two speedy defensive stalwarts with French-sounding names in Juan Pierre and Jacque Jones to help battle Le White Sox, Le Cardinals, Le Wind, Le Ivy, and Le Curse of Le Goat. Of course, both Jones and Pierre are American as apple pie and… well, French fries; with Jacque Jones being a native San Diegan and Juan Pierre from Alabama. But it’s a still fun angle to play.

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Fire Up the Hot Stove: Chicago Cubs

“Wait till Next Year”

    That famous quote year after year after year. Why? Why do I as a Cubs fan have to say this every year, at this same time of the year? 1908.  1908 is the last year the Cubs won a World Series Championship, and ever since then it has been a living hell for every Cubs fan throughout the world.

        But, I have a way that this team can contend next year and for several years to come. All the Cubs need to do this off-season is spend the money (and there is a lot to spend) in the places they need to spend the money.

        They need to make decision on most ever position on their roster and it won’t be easy. This year’s free agent pool is very thin, but they have some in-house parts to use for next season. I will go position by position and tell what I think the Chicago Cubs need to do to become a possible play-off contender.