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Mike Quade is the manager of the Chicago Cubs. He took over on an interim basis during the 2010 season and was named manager after the season was over.
Mike Quade is the manager of the Chicago Cubs. He took over on an interim basis during the 2010 season and was named manager after the season was over.
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Trading Marmol could fill a couple of Cubs holes
Reports say the Tigers are looking to trade for a closer. Hang loose, Carlos Marmol. I mean, didn’t the Cubs sign Kyuji Fujikawa precisely because they intended-slash-hoped-slash-tried to trade Marmol? In fact, the Cubs cut a deal with the...
Tags: American League Central, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Ron Santo, Chicago Cubs, Josh Vitters
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Your Morning Phil: Cashner, draft, Astros
Talking baseball while congratulating the Boston Bruins on one of the great playoff finishes of all time: 1. In less than two years with the Cubs’ organization, Anthony Rizzo has earned himself a $41 million guarantee, which he says guarantees...Tags: Wrigley Field, Mark Appel, College Baseball, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs
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Castro's embarrassing walkabout helps Cubs regain lead in the Idiot League
I suppose the Cubs should be thankful that Starlin Castro didn’t just drop down and start doing dirt angels on the Wrigley infield while actual baseball was about to commence, but there are plenty of embarrassing aspects of Starlin Castro’s...Tags: Darwin Barney, Reed Johnson, Chicago Cubs, Aramis Ramirez, Sports
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Dear Cubs fans, don't be suckers
The Cubs have won 12 of their last 16 games. Their starters have an ERA of 1.13 in their last five. The staff itself averaged an earned run a game in the weekend sweep of Arizona. They are playing the kind of baseball we haven’t seen all season...
Tags: Matt Garza, Carlos Marmol, Darwin Barney, Arizona Diamondbacks, Reed Johnson
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Cubs now worse; but organization better, at least in theory
The Cubs are not a better team today without Ryan Dempster, Paul Maholm, Reed Johnson and Geovany Soto. They would be even worse without Matt Garza, and that still might happen by the Aug. 30 waiver deadline. Either way, though, the Cubs organization is...
Tags: Matt Garza, Geovany Soto, Reed Johnson, Chicago Cubs, Sports
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Is it time for a new Ricketts to run the Cubs?
Tom Ricketts needs to do something. Even in hiding from everyone except one reporter he believed he could use, Ricketts needs to order something done.
A trade. Yeah, that’s it. Ricketts needs to trade someone. Maybe he’ll trade Matt Garza...Tags: Matt Garza, Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, Michael McCaskey, Thomas Ricketts
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Sveum: Big talk and double-talk
Did somebody get to Dale Sveum? Specifically, did somebody in Cubs management tell the manager to stand down after his comments about threatening to bench Starlin Castro because of exasperating mental mistakes in San Francisco? Reading comments out of...
Tags: Dale Sveum, Sports, Robin Yount, Jim Leyland, Starlin Castro
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Tribune All-City team
Contact a Hollywood agent, quick. It's time for someone to do the miniseries "Trading Sori: Inside the Cubs' Quest for the Holy Grail.'' The conversations about the Alfonso Soriano situation that have taken place recently and will take place for who...
Tags: Josh Hamilton, Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians, Dayan Viciedo, James Russell
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Power rankings: No. 10 Red Sox
Bobby Valentine has managed in the World Series and won a championship in Japan but he never has taken a major league team to a division title in 15 seasons as a manager. It's not likely to happen this year either.
A year after widespread indifference...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester, Tony La Russa, Theo Epstein
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Power rankings: No. 26 Cubs
En route to 91 losses last season and a radical regime change, the Cubs were outscored by 102 runs. As it happens, half of those can be put down to talent and half of them to playing the game well.
Bill James tracks manufactured runs, both created and...Tags: Lou Piniella, Darwin Barney, Theo Epstein, Starlin Castro, Ian Kinsler
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Short of finding Patrick Sharp, here's how Hawks fans can help
The Blackhawks had all kinds of airplane trouble trying to get back to Chicago on Sunday after Game 5 in Arizona.
They had won the night before to extend their first-round series against the Phoenix Coyotes. They couldn’t wait to get home to extend...Tags: Mikkel Boedker, Los Angeles Kings, Patrick Sharp, Chicago Blackhawks, National Hockey League
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The truth about Sox honesty and Cub delusions
The White Sox are five games out of first place in the AL Central and just lost five of seven at home against divisional opponents. Paul Konerko says his Sox don’t look like a division-winning team right now. Rank honesty about a team playing pretty...Tags: American League Central, Baseball Injuries, Injuries and Wounds, National League, Jim Hendry
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