Opening Day and Weekend have come and gone and the season is underway. The new look Cubs have started out 2011 looking much like the 2010 version. Here are some things we can take away from the first series: - The Cubs still can’t figure out the Pirates. They really could have won all 3 but always found a way to make the one...
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Roy Halladay, who ripped the front office and new pitching coach Mark Riggins on Saturday when he didn’t make the opening roster, was unconditionally released Sunday morning. The Cubs will eat the $11.5 million left on his contract rather than keep him around while trying to trade him. ‘‘Obviously,’’ general manager...
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For those of you keeping score at home, the dugout “scuffle” on Wednesday was the second time in the last year involving a starting pitcher named Carlos and a position player who has been a mainstay in Chicago for the last few years. Last season it was Carlos Zambrano and Derek Lee getting into a shouting match. Wednesday it...
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I’m not a Cardinals fan. At all. In fact, I despise the Cardinals. But with the rest of baseball fans around the country, I have been following the Albert Pujols contract situation closely. I’ve been trying to step back and look at this situation from all angles. No matter how I look at it, if I were a Cardinals fan,...
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*UPDATED 2/17/11* With what has been labeled as “Albertageddon Day” upon us, some of our staff takes a look at the different perspectives this day brings from both the Cubs and Cardinals sides. First, a Cardinals fan perspective: 1) If the Cardinals were to give Pujols a 10-year, $300 million contract,...
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