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If brevity is the soul of wit, then today’s effort could be one of the wittiest ones in the decades-long history around here. Because of technical difficulties (not to mention non-technical ones), there will be less text than usual today. OK, you can stop the cheering right now. Thank you. Because of a more generous […]
Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo each hit two home runs as the Chicago Cubs lost 6-4 Thursday to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field. Yes, it’s that time of the season (as if it hasn’t been for a while). The Cubs have lost four of five, realizing the worse their record the higher the […]
Thursday thoughts: The Chicago White Sox blew a two-run lead in the ninth inning before losing 6-5 in 10 innings Wednesday to the Indians in Cleveland. On the bright (OK, it’s not bright, although all things are relative) side for the Sox, starter Jose Quintana recorded a major league-leading number: 14 non-decisions. Which, given the […]
Midweek musings: Well, Jake Peavy will be pitching the rest of the season (provided that he is physically able to do so) for the Sox. It simply will be the Red Sox in Boston rather than his previous employer, the White Sox in Chicago. A three-team deal that included the Detroit Tigers appears to make […]
Win some, lose some. In the case of the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, it’s more lose some than win some. Nit-picking. Monday it was the Cubs losing at home 5-0 to Milwaukee, thanks to a five-run ninth inning. And it was the Sox losing 3-2 at Cleveland on a Jason Giambi walkoff home run. […]
With baseball’s trade deadline looming (or whatever trade deadlines do, which probably is very little, because when was the last time you saw a trade deadline out in public doing anything?), the possibility of a player or players being dealt can be a distraction. Which explains, of course, why the Chicago White Sox were swept […]
As baseball’s trade deadline (which isn’t a strict deadline, but it does encourage some teams to make trades) approaches, the Chicago Cubs reportedly would consider trading pitcher Jeff Samardzija. So said Ken Rosenthal during the course of Satursday’s Fox telecast of the St. Louis Cardinals-Atlanta Braves game. Of course, a trade for the right-hander would […]
Saturday stats: According to an ESPN Sports Poll, LeBron James is the most popular player in the NBA. Well, he already was the most prominent player on ESPN, based on seeing him almost endlessly during the season. The Miami Heat star was the favorite with 12.9 percent of poll respondents. He topped runner-up Kobe Bryant […]
If the highlight of your team’s baseball season is trading away a talented veteran for unproven talent, then you just might be a Chicago baseball fan. Take your choice of teams. And we’re not even talking about waiting till next season. Maybe 2015 (too soon?). More like 2016. And that’s just for the Cubs or […]
The concussion that Chicago Sky forward Elena Delle Donne suffered Wednesday (July 24) created a headache — for the rookie, for the team and for the WNBA. The first-year player from the University of Delaware suffered a concussion with 1:01 remaining in the third quarter in an 82-78 loss to the host Washington Mystics. She […]