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Monday meanderings: There are losses. And there is loss. The Chicago Bears lost a football game Sunday to the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass. The St. Louis Cardinals lost a player of great promise in an automobile crash in the Dominican Republic. * The Bears’ defeat was 51-23. It was 38-7 at halftime. Meaning […]
Sunday smorgasbord: The biggest surprise of the Chicago Cubs offseason? At this point it has to be that the team is not selling tickets for folks to be in Wrigley Field (at least in the upper deck) to watch the demolition that has been happening with the ballpark’s bleachers. A lost opportunity for additional revenue. […]
If the Kansas City Royals can be 10-1 in the 2014 postseason with Ned Yost managing, imagine what the Chicago Cubs could do with Joe Maddon managing them. OK, so that sentence makes no sense (even less than usual, which isn’t easy to do). The reality is Maddon departed the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday […]
The Chicago Cubs have ended future Hall of Fame shortstop Addison Russell’s Arizona Fall League stay. Not because he was batting .190 but because he had had a long 2014 season. Sure. To be fair (and aren’t we always that around here?), Russell is unaccustomed to playing October baseball. Come to think of it, so […]
Thursday thoughts (or reasonable facsimiles thereof): Jake Peavy pitches pretty well for five or so innings. He falters. The bullpen comes in and fails to do its job. Peavy takes the loss. So was that a World Series game Wednesday night or some sort of early Halloween prank with the San Francisco Giants playing the […]
Midweek musings: With a 7-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday night, the Kansas City Royals suffered their first defeat of the postseason after seven victories. Meaning the Chicago Cubs and White Sox have fewer 2014 postseason defeats. OK, because they failed to reach the postseason, […]
Random thoughts (well, about as close to such things as we will find around here) while waiting for the World Series to begin: * The Chicago Bulls lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-98 Monday night in a preseason game at Columbus, Ohio. Derrick Rose led the Bulls with 30 points on 12-of-18 shooting (4-of-5 three-pointers). […]
Monday meanderings: In the aftermath of the Chicago Bears’ 27-14 loss Sunday to the Miami Dolphins at Soldier Field, Bears receiver Brandon Marshall said the defeat was unacceptable. He said it more than a dozen times. OK, assuming the Bears accept that the loss is unacceptable, what does that mean and what do they do […]
Sunday smorgasbord: The Chicago Bears play the Miami Dolphins on Sunday afternoon at Soldier Field. Meaning there will be no cheerleaders on the sidelines because the Bears haven’t had them since their Super Bowl-winning season of 1985. Once again, a plea to the NFL powers-that-be: When the home team doesn’t have cheerleaders, the visiting team […]
October 18 was going to be special this year. In a way different from what it had been for all those years since early childhood. October 18 was going to be special because it was going to be the day the St. Louis Cardinals clinched the National League Championship by winning Game 6. It was […]