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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 20

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images The Cubs bullpen leads the way in a 2-1 win. I’ve never spent any time thinking about who the Murphy fellow was or why he was destined to bring frustration to people for all of time. I decided I’d wait up for the Tuesday night game to end in order to get this written before the quick turnaround day game after night game. So, of course, the game went extra innings....2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19

David Frerker-Imagn Images The Cubs’ sloppy play leads to a 10-4 loss. Monday night’s game has an awful lot to unpack. If you are an impulsive reactor, I’d say today is a day to take a deep breath. Recall that this team has played terrific baseball over the first few weeks. The frustrating aspect to the start of this season has been that the losses have been like this. The Cubs were leadi...2025
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• Larry Boardman's Fabulous Five-Fight String

Larry Boardman was an elite lightweight during the 1950s who beat a slew of champions. Known for his tremendous power in both hands, his ninth round knockout of Frankie Ryff on June 1, 1956 at Madison Square Garden was so ferocious, kids who watched it on television vividly remembered it fifty years later.Boardman first burst into the consciousness of the boxing public on February 7, 1956 when he ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Cubs win 4-2 and take the series from the Dodgers in LA. When does being on the Sunday night national broadcast suck less? When you are in California. I mean, it is certainly possible the game would have been a Sunday “afternoon” game in Los Angeles. But for me over here in Florida, them playing a game that only ended around 10 p.m. local time wa...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Cubs bounce back with an offensive explosion and win 16-0. This game almost became as silly to write about in the good direction as the previous two games did in the wrong direction. The subtle difference here is that this one was a 2-0 game through six innings. The final score is not indicative of how much of a nail-biter as this one was for tho...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images The offense was stifled in Los Angeles, as the Cubs lose 3-0. This is a frustrating one to write. That cover photo should be Matthew Boyd. Coming off of two strong starts against quality opponents, in his third start he drew the defending World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. And that’s not any ordinary defending champion, that team is a poor man’s All-Star team...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 14

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs offense never quits in a 10-6 win over the Rangers. The beat rolls on. The Cubs offense has been a largely unstoppable force in the early going. It posted 10 more runs in this one. Once again, there were contributions up and down the lineup. The Cubs had 12 hits by six players. They also drew six walks and had a hit batter. Eight different Cub...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 8

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Takin’ care of business: Cubs win 7-4. You know you’ve officially settled into the season when you get to that first ordinary win. Nothing spectacular. Nothing feels new about it. You didn’t overcome and kind of adversity. You looked at the schedule and the matchups. You thought, that could be competitive, but I think we’ll win. And then you just ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 2

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The Cubs were swept by the Dodgers in Tokyo. An early season heavy sigh. Probably not going to be the last one before May either. If you paid attention this offseason, you are probably aware that the Cubs schedule is incredibly front loaded. At least if last season is predictive of this season. On paper, the Cubs have a harder March/April schedule than an...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 150

David Banks-Imagn Images The Cubs return home with a 9-2 pounding of the A’s. The Cubs came back home and the offense got into gear quickly. Putting together a team isn’t some literal chemistry equation or evenly a math equation. But it’s hard not to think the team needs another catalyst or two. The last half of this year has seen an explosive offense, except when the offense is missing in...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs falter late, losing 6-5 to the Rockies. This feeling this morning, it’s different than it has been in a while. The beauty of an in-season vacation is that I was out of contact during the Cleveland series. Because of that, I’m having trouble remembering the last time that things were so frustrating that I’m looking for where the ride ends so th...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 133

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images It’s the fifth victory in six games as the Cubs win 9-5. So where were you all on May 28? That was the last time the Cubs finished a day over .500. I’m not saying that it was a long time ago, but Ben Brown was the Superhero in that one, a 6-3 win against the Brewers. We miss you, Ben. Get well! After a 17-9 start, the team slowly tailed off. I think ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 117

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs win 8-2 to take the series from the Twins. I mean no disrespect to the Twins, but when I was looking into them ahead of this series, I saw a team that has feasted on bad teams with an unusual fervor. On the one hand, all you can do is beat the team in the other dugout. This isn’t college football and you aren’t lining up cupcakes to boost your...2024
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• OBJ, a Boat Party and the Bieber Curse: Should NY Giants Fans Be Worried?
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"4-6, HR, 2 2B, 3 RBI, 4 R THREE GOATS: Billy Goat: Seiya Suzuki (-."

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"2-4, 2B, RBI, R THREE GOATS: Billy Goat: Miles Mastrobuoni (-."

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"1-4, SB, K THREE GOATS: Billy Goat: Mark Leiter Jr."

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"1-3, 2B, 3RBI, 3R, 2BB, K THREE GOATS: Billy Goat: Adrian Sampson (-."

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"LOOK: Cubs work Wrigley Field, W flag and billy goat into World Series rings"

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"Fans have blamed the Billy Goat Curse from 1945, a black cat running on the field in 1969 and fan Steve Bartman in 2003—the last of whom might finally get his chance at redemption in the coming year."

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"Right about now, however, the Cubs will probably defer to what Arrieta had to say about the Curse of the Billy Goat all the way back in April: You may feel like laughing."

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"He had already broken the "Curse of the Bambino" in Boston, and the Cubs charged him with shattering their own "Curse of the Billy Goat."

• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 7

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images The Cubs pummel the A’s as they open their new home. On Sunday, the Cubs missed an opportunity to have a signature win. They could have taken three of four from a legitimate playoff contender, in their ballpark and even the season record at three wins and three losses. We’ve seen so many bullpen collapses in recent years, particularly early season ones, that it...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 6

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Fright Show: The Cubs bullpen immolates in Arizona. You always know there are going to be games like this. There are always going to be some games that you should have won and let get away and some games that you should have lost and flip the script. In and of itself, I don’t lose more than a moment’s thought about a game like this. So many things. Every ye...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images A thoroughly entertaining Cubs win. I’d like to thank the Cubs for playing a terrific game. A little behind the scenes, I went to bed Friday night rather than stay up with the Cubs game. I was up a little before 6 locally in Florida to write about Friday night’s Diamondbacks beatdown of the Cubs. I had a long day here that included a local renaissance fai...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 2
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images A tough start against perhaps the game’s toughest opponents. Welcome back, baseball, my old friend. As long-suffering Cubs fans, we know that this can be a very fickle friend. That was definitely the case in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. For one of the rare times where baseball is concerned, I really appreciated my move to the east coast. This game st...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 161

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images A magical sendoff for a Cubs legend in a 3-0 win. What a day. We all have so many memories of Kyle Hendricks. Obviously, he started some of the most significant games in modern Cubs history, a statement that can be made without even an ounce of hyperbole. He started the deciding games of both the NLCS and the World Series in 2016, dominating the Dodgers ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 160

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs record their 82nd win in a 1-0 shutout. That game had to make Cubs fans of a certain age remember games of the 60’s and 70’s. The Reds got a complete game with one run allowed. That’s going to win a game, what, 90 percent of the time? Probably more. Five hits, no walks. Tough break, sir. He allowed one double and it cost him. At 34 years of ag...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 150
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 20
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 14
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13

Photo by Abigail Dean/Getty Images Steele dominates in a 7-0 Cubs win. In the nine years now that I’ve been writing Heroes and Goats, and with the assistance of social media, the strangest thing I’ve learned is that some number of you experience your fandom by being angry a lot. There is some amount of frustration and lashing out that is part of the way you consume the baseball season. On...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 12

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs fade away in an 8-7 loss to the Padres. I’ve written many times about glass half full/glass half empty. Your mileage may vary, but my glass is still overflowing. In the last nine days, the Cubs played eight games. They won six of them. Definitely should have won another and probably should have won this one too. This one will get lumped in wit...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 6
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 4

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Snake bitten: Cubs lose 8-1! It will forever amaze me how good a team can look one day and how bad the next. In this case, that would refer to the offense only. Obviously, the pitching has been sluggish to start the 2025 campaign, save for those innings worked by Shōta Imanaga in Japan. Games like Friday night are the origin of the quote about momentum and t...2025
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• Vic Joseph Comments On Sabrina Carpenter Commentary References, WWE NXT Highlights, More | Fight Size
Here is your fight size update for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. - Vic Joseph took to social media to comment on his Sabrina Carpenter references: #WWENXT https://t.co/buhaM6xYgm pic.twitter.com/W7C7ZGYoGa — Vic Joseph (@VicJosephWWE) March 19, 2025 - Top 10 WWE NXT moments: WWE Top 10, March 18, 2025: - Best of Seth Rollins at WrestleMania - FULL MATCH marathon: - Kurt Angle has been announced f...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Intro to the season

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Just what exactly is Heroes and Goats? Here’s an overview. For those of you who have followed Heroes and Goats for one or more years, welcome back! To those of you who are new here, welcome. Hopefully, you’ll give this space a chance. There are a number of loyal followers of this section who come back year after year and engage with this material. Hopefully,...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 161
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• Jake Arrieta, Cubs Show Regular Season Was No Fluke in NL Wild Card Win
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• Cubs' Title Drought Lives On, but Their 'Curse' Days Are Officially over
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• Mets Pitching Suffocates Cubs, Brings Shades of 1969 and 1986 World Champ Clubs
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• Takeru Kobayashi Helps Devour Entire Goat in Attempt to End Chicago Cubs Curse
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• Daniel Murphy, Noah Syndergaard Stun Cubs as Breakout Postseasons Continue
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• Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Comments on Winning World Series, Steve Bartman, More
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• Cubs fan trolls by raising 'W' flag above Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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• Jason Heyward Splash Puts World Series-Chasing Chicago Cubs on Top of MLB
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 25

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs sweep the Astros to close a successful homestand. Every season is an entity onto its own. You watch enough seasons and they start to feel like one long homogenous mass. But when you sort them out, or more specifically when one is going on, you can really feel that individuality. And so, as we sit in front of this currently unfolding season, th...2024
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 109
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Cubs rally late only to falter and lose 6-5 I quit playing fantasy baseball somewhere between 15 and 20 years ago. Somewhere around that time, I also quit playing Strat-O-Matic baseball. When I ceased those activities, I basically stopped paying attention with any detail as to the comings and goings of any particular roster or players. I’m overtly aware o...2022
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 11

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs stay red-hot with a 7-1 win, their fifth straight. It’s crazy to imagine given the rough schedule to start this season, but the Cubs have stormed out of the gate. They sit one terrible inning shy of seven consecutive wins. The A’s probably will finish well short of the playoff picture. The Diamondbacks and Padres, who bookended that A’s ser...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 10

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs escape with a 3-1 victory for their fourth straight win. For three days in Sacramento to start the week, the Cubs battered the A’s. Against a lesser team, they basically made it look easy. But coming home to great the Padres, winners of seven straight to start the season, they were significantly stepping up in class. This wasn’t the...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 9

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The Cubs wear out the A’s and sweep series with a 10-2 victory. When I said that I thought this Cubs team would win 91 games, I was thinking of the team that spent the last three days terrorizing the A’s in Sacramento. The facility might have been a minor league one, but the performance was very much a major league team. A very good major league team. This t...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 113

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs fail to protect their lead and lose 5-4. Heavy sigh. Once again, the Cubs had things in position to win a game and let it get away. That will be the enduring memory of this season. The crushing number of blown leads late has derailed this team over and over again. The Cubs had the opportunity to get back to three under .500. The last time they r...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156

Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports A three-game sweep sets up a fight to the finish. As easy as one, two, three! Okay, well, it wasn’t easy. But, the Cubs took care of a woeful (on the road) Rockies team in business-like fashion. This season has been so many things that we don’t always see from the Cubs. I’ve talked about it several times regarding their ability to come off the mat and rebound...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs fumble the lead late, but bounce back to win 5-4. In the moment, I suspect Jordan Wicks would tell you that winning a game and the march towards the playoffs is what matters. That’s the right thing to say and is admirable. At the end of the day, it is a team sport. You win as a team and you win at a lose. It isn’t about individual accomplishments...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 64
Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images Class dismissed! Kyle is vintage Professor in a 4-0 win Some of you might not remember, but when your team wins back-to-back games, that’s called a winning streak. Yeah, it’s not really that long. Somehow, they won two straight against the Rays. I mean, not really just “somehow.” This team basically has one way it wins games: A domina...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Hope springs eternal! Welcome back for the 10th season of Heroes and Goats. I can remember back to 2014 when Al Yellon asked the Bleed Cubbie Blue faithful if any of them had ideas for new features. Me? I wouldn’t describe myself as particularly creative. But I well remember when Russ La Croix conceived Heroes and Goats. I was from the beginning a fan o...2023
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• Cub Tracks is good for more
Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Good for more than wrapping fish, anyway. Roster Jenga speculation continues as the final weekend of Spring Training is underway. Indeed, the games start for real Thursday... Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-sty...2023
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats; Game 135
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Cubs pound Reds 9-3 in their return home to Wrigley Field. We say “baseball happened” when some lousy team beats one of the better teams. That scenario plays itself out basically every day somewhere across baseball. The reality that it is hard to sweep a series leads to these outcomes. It’s essentially a baseball meme to hold up what is essentially an exc...2022
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