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The Chicago Bulls defeated the host New York Knicks on Wednesday. The Knicks defeated the host Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday. The Cavaliers play the host Chicago Bulls on Friday. So logic says the Bulls beat the Cavs. Unless, of course, the Cavs beat the Bulls (because the road team has won each encounter). So much […]
Thursday thoughts (extremely loose definition of “thoughts”) while wondering how many games Cameron Bairstow and E’Twaun Moore both will appear in this season for the Bulls: * You can be fairly certain this is the first — and last — time that you will see Bairstow’s and Moore’s names in the opening paragraph around here […]
Midweek musings: Jimmy Butler will miss the Chicago Bulls’ season opener Wednesday night at New York because of a sprained ligament in his left thumb. He is expected to be out … until he returns. And no one in Bulls management is saying when that might be. Player health — from Derrick Rose to Joakim […]
Random thoughts (what passes for such around here) while wondering if there is anything quite as enlightening across the United States of America as NFL coaches and general managers meeting the media on Mondays: * Bears general manager Phil Emery says the Bears are as frustrated as the fans are. One of the big differences […]
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, […]