The Cubs’ manager orchestrates an extra-inning victory just as the not-time-to-panic stage was looming.
Tag: Sammy Sosa
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Best Baseball Announcer Likely to Recall an Obscure Play From Ten Years Ago in Extraordinary Detail
Every big-league announcer has to develop a knack for creative filibustering.
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Reason for concern? The Ricketts family own the Cubs and DNAInfo
Joe Ricketts launched DNA Info. His son Tom runs the Chicago Cubs. What are we to think?
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Sammy Sosa, Lenny Skutnik, and the State of the Union
Sosa made it into an elite SOTU club, if not the HOF.
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Once again, baseball writers cover themselves choosing Hall of Famers
Should ‘roids be allowed in the Hall of Fame? Baseball writers are putting themselves in their answers.
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Being a sports fan: when hot emotion and cold logic come into conflict
I hate it when I’m right about my team losing
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Former Major League Baseball Player Doug Glanville on The Interview Show
Doug Glanville talks baseball on the Interview Show.
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This Is Why You Can’t Have Anything Nice
To: Cubs fans, Chicago mediaFrom: A fan of your more sensible Central Division rivals I realize that the departure of Sammy Sosa was acrimonious, but: YOU MUST CHILL. I HAVE HIDDEN YOUR KEYS. And while I also realize that Sosa may have looked somewhat odd at a recent social function, and that journalism is expected […]
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Steroids: Black Mark or Gray Area?
Baseball scribes would rather moralize about performance-enhancing drugs than make hard decisions about whether their use should keep players out of the Hall of Fame.
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Lovable losers won’t cut it anymore
Alfonso Soriano gets held to a new, higher standard by Cub fans.
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Barry Bonds explains himself
George Castle’s new book Baseball and the Media has a compelling nugget about embattled slugger Barry Bonds.
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Slammin’ Sammy/Theology Takes a Seat
Dan McGrath says there’s no conspiracy. But where’s his evidence? Where’s the proof that a tight little cluster of Tribune Company overlords, whose chain of command descends to the Cubs clubhouse and the Tribune sports department, isn’t jerking the hapless satraps at the bottom? Satraps like manager Don Baylor and sports editor Dan McGrath. Dan, […]