May 2010
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Enhanced Box Score: Pirates 3, Cubs 4 – May 16, 2010
Glory, glory hallelujah: the Cubs managed to beat the Pirates. It’s just a lame-ass, one-run, mid-May win against a terrible team, but it felt like the freaking playoffs. Once again the starter gave up runs early, but this time, the Cubs actually managed to score some runs late.
The Chicago Cubs Would Like to Trade Derrek Lee
Well here’s a bit of a shocker – at least, it’s a shocker that this is coming up in May as opposed to July. The Chicago Cubs are willing to move first baseman Derrek Lee. Not as shocking? Nobody’s interested. Derrek Lee, first baseman, Cubs: If the Cubs could move him, they would, according to [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Pirates 4, Cubs 3 – May 15, 2010
Ryan Dempster missed a lot of bats, but it wasn’t enough. Aramis Ramirez had a two run double, so, well, there’s that.
Zambrano Says He’s Fine, But This Bullpen Business is Becoming a Distraction
Carlos Zambrano is a quarterback kicking field goals. A center guarding Steve Nash. A starting pitcher…well, you know the rest. That’s the score, and we have no choice but to roll with it. Zambrano, himself – following a particularly disastrous outing – is doing his best to reframe the discussion and deflect, but with every [...]
Enhanced Box Score: Pirates 10, Cubs 6 – May 14, 2010
Laugh. I dare you. The offense showed up but no one else did today. The freaking Pirates, man. The Pirates.
Series Preview: Pirates v. Cubs, May 14 – May 16, 2010
The Chicago Cubs welcome the always scrappy (read: ok, they were scrappy last week) Pittsburgh Pirates. A refresher on the series preview here at Bleacher Nation: The idea is to hook you up with the bare minimum of what you need to know about every series this year streaks, lineups, game times, broadcast schedule, etc. [...]
Whoa: Several Cubs Officials Had – and Still Have – Reservations About Starlin Castro Promotion
The Chicago Cubs promoted top prospect Starlin Castro, 20, last week – a move that was questioned as panic-driven. Most thinking folks rejected that kind of criticism, believing there was no way the Cubs organization would promote a 20-year-old kid as a knee-jerk reaction to a bad series or two. Turns out, we were wrong. [...]
Oh Great: Carlos Zambrano is Getting Frustrated
Chicago Cubs setup pitcher (still weird to say it) Carlos Zambrano helped hold down the Cubs’ 4-3 win yesterday over the Florida Marlins, but when manager Lou Piniella came to get him in the middle of the eighth inning, Zambrano was visibly unhappy with either the decision or his performance, or both. Aside from the [...]
