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• The Cubs have given Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer contract extensions

The Pat and Ron show will continue broadcasting Cubs baseball for years to come | Courtesy WGN Radio The pair will continue to call Cubs games on 670 The Score. We might not have any big news on the Cubs signing players for 2025, but good news came from the team today as they announced multi-year contract extensions for radio broadcasters Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer. Hughes has been broadcas...2024
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• Cubs Officially Extend 670 The Score Radio Broadcasters Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer
This had previously been reported and is now being made official, so I’ll spare you more puns and just share the media release. The Chicago Cubs, along with Audacy’s 670 The Score (WSCR-AM) today announced multiyear contract extensions for radio play-by-play broadcaster Pat Hughes and analyst Ron Coomer. “Pat and Ron have been with our … The post Cubs Officially Extend 670...2024
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• Cub Tracks captures the flag

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Ohio State stole our ‘W’, the bastages. It’s not raining free agents yet. What’s up with that? WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs...2024
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• Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer Have New Multiyear Deals with Cubs Radio
Get out those tape measures, folks, Chicago Cubs baseball will continue to be on the air with the same familiar voices well into the future. As first reported by Sun-Times deputy sports editor/media columnist Jeff Agrest, Hall of Famer Pat Hughes and former Cub and All-Star Ron Coomer agreed to new multiyear contracts last week. … The post Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer Have New Multiyear Deals with...2024
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• A look at Cubs no-hitters through history

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs threw their second-ever combined no-no Wednesday. Here are all the other Cubs no-hitters. The combined no-hitter Wednesday evening by Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge against the Pirates is the 18th in Cubs franchise history. That statement has to be looked at with a small grain of salt. The first four no-hitters thrown by the Chicago ...2024
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Miami Marlins preview, Sunday 8/25, 12:40 CT

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series sweep! Sunday notes... RARITY: The Cubs have a chance today to complete just their fifth three-game sweep in their 37 series at Miami. The previous sweeps were in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2019. In 1996, the Cubs won the first two games and lost the third. In 2013, they won three in a row, then lost a fourth. PCA UPDATE: Pete Crow-...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ the thrill of the Chase

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. A pitcher’s duel created drama in the desert. The Cubs emerged victorious. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, ove...2024
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• 2024 Cubs attendance watch: The weather and ticket pricing for the first homestand

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Some interesting numbers for both as the 2024 season begins. The Cubs won five of six games played at Wrigley Field last week. So, that’s good! What wasn’t good was the weather, which was pretty awful through the entire homestand. No game-time temperature was over 47 and the average for the six dates was 43. It rained during play in three of the six games and t...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ end of an era?

SI Model Chase throws out the first pitch. | Photo by David Banks/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. SI on the skids, Hader sets a record, Stroman bites the apple, and other stories. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Snakebit

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs drop their third in a row to the Diamondbacks. I’m almost glad I couldn’t see it. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ the way the ball bounces

Photo by Quinn Harris/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs drop another to Diamondbacks, need to meatloaf to split series. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, a...2023
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• Cub Tracks scuttles Pirates
Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The Professor is back. Nico should be an All-Star. Cubs sweep the series and head across the big pond two games under .500. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB basebal...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 62
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs get swept out of Anaheim. Let’s play the worst game of Jeopardy ever. What are 4, 2, 11, 4, 8, 3 and 5? Those are the Cubs’ hit totals in the first seven games of the trip. 37 hits in seven games. But this illustrates the problem of every statistical analysis of the Cubs. They have averaged a little over five hits per game. For all major league t...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds preview, Saturday 5/27, 6:15 CT
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs look to even up their series against the Reds. Saturday notes... BIRTHDAY GREETINGS: Happy birthday to Cubs radio play-by-play voice Pat Hughes, who turns 68 today. BLOWOUT HISTORY: Thursday’s 10-1 rout by the Mets and Friday’s 9-0 drubbing by the Reds marked just the 13th time since 1901 that the Cubs have lost back-to-back games by at least ...2023
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• Cub Tracks starts out on the wrong foot
Cody Bellinger has an apparent lower-leg injury | Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Read all about it! #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs drop one to Astros despite another Morel deep fly. Cody Bellinger might be hurt. It doesn’t seem major, says David Ross. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style...2023
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• Cub Tracks is a five on the Sut scale
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Read all about it! #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The Cubs are starting to get people thinking. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed ...2023
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"Dodgers: Pat Hughes “sweater-shirt”Saturday, April 20 vs."

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"It will include the 1876, 1907 and 1908 championship trophies, Ernie Banks’ 1959 MVP Award, Pat Hughes’ 2023 Ford Frick Award and more."

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"Pat Hughes speaks at the Cubs’ World Series rally in 2016 | Photo by Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This is a well-deserved honor."

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• The Cubs have given Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer contract extensions
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• Cubs Officially Extend 670 The Score Radio Broadcasters Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer
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• Cub Tracks captures the flag
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• Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer Have New Multiyear Deals with Cubs Radio
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• A look at Cubs no-hitters through history
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• 2024 Cubs attendance watch: The weather and ticket pricing for the first homestand
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• Cub Tracks’ where the great ones run...

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Cubs thump the Rockies. More players cut. Taillon has a back issue. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, s...2024
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• Cubs announce 2024 promotional giveaway schedule

Here are some of the items fans will get at Wrigley Field this year. Five bobbleheads highlight the 2024 Cubs promotional schedule, announced today by the team. Those bobbleheads will be: Saturday, June 1: Christopher Morel bobblehead Saturday, June 22: Adbert Alzolay bobbleheadSaturday, July 6: Justin Steele bobbleheadThursday, August 1: Ian Happ bobblehead Those bobbleheads are pictured at the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Man’s best friend

A look at all the news from baseball—the Hot Stove and beyond. The Athletic is doing a series on each broadcaster who is up for the Ford C. Frick Award, the one the Pat Hughes won last year. I’m not going to link to them all because there are seven up them up already and counting. I’m assuming that if you subscribe to The Athletic, you know how to find them. I’m just mentioning this here to give ...2023
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• Tom Ricketts sends a message to Cubs fans

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs chairman says the future is bright. Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts sent a message to Cubs fans Wednesday, which arrived by email. Perhaps you received a copy. In case you didn’t, I reproduce it here in its entirety. What you’ll see is optimism for the future, thanks to Cubs fans for support and a review of where the team on the field stands. What you won’t...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Miami Marlins preview, Sunday 8/25, 12:40 CT
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Seattle Mariners preview, Sunday 4/14, 3:10 CT

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series win. Sunday notes... NOT WALKING AWAY: The Cubs won last night despite getting no walks, something they did only twice all of last season. Their previous walk-free game was a 3-0 loss at St. Louis on July 30 of last year. Before that, they had won four straight such games and five of six, with the only other loss by 1-0 to the...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 147

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Fatigue sinks the Cubs in Colorado. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then I choose this one to sum up this series in Colorado. With the number of runners lost on the bases in this series and the number of miscues from a team that Pat Hughes thinks might be the best defensive team he’s ever seen, the Cubs laid an egg in Colorado. The amount I lo...2023
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• Cub Tracks squeaks one out

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Wow. Weirdness, lead changes, good, bad, ugly, and miraculous. That’s so CUB! Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2023
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• Cub Tracks meatloafs Motown

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs take two out of three and head for Pittsburgh. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight ...2023
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• Cub Tracks scuttles Pirates
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 62
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds preview, Saturday 5/27, 6:15 CT
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• Cub Tracks is a five on the Sut scale
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• The Cubs have given Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer contract extensions
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• A Cubsmas Advent Calendar: Pat Hughes is a Hall of Famer

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The radio voice of the Chicago Cubs won the Ford C. Frick Award in 2023 This is Day Four of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. Every year as the snow begins to melt (before second or third winter, when we’ll wait for the snow to thaw again, but I digress) Cubs fans who have been desperate for baseball...2023
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• Happy Thanksgiving!

What are you thankful for this year? Thanksgiving greetings to everyone, and I hope this holiday finds you healthy and happy and spending the day with friends and family. If you’re hanging around here for the day, consider this an open thread to discuss anything (as long as it’s within site rules). And if you’re looking for an alternative to football today, and you have access to Marquee Sports N...2023
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• Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston will be inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame next month

Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston in 1997 | VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images They’ll be honored at Wrigley Field September 8-10. Cubs greats Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston were announced as the 2023 Cubs Hall of Fame inductees at last January’s Cubs Convention. Today, the team announced that these two popular former Cubs will be honored at Wrigley Field the weekend of September 8-10, when t...2023
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• Listen: Cubs radio voice Pat Hughes calls final out of World Series
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• Pat Hughes wins the Hall of Fame’s Frick Award
Pat Hughes speaks at the Cubs’ World Series rally in 2016 | Photo by Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This is a well-deserved honor. Pat Hughes has been the Cubs’ lead radio play-by-play voice since 1996, so 2023 will be his 28th year behind the microphone calling Cubs games. He’s also done some PBP on TV for Marquee Sports Network. Pat has always been an excellent broadcast...2022
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching efforts and timely hitting and defeated their arch-rivals. One day after the Cubs put together one of their biggest stinkers of 2023 in the doubleheader Game 2 loss to the Cardinals, they posted one of their best efforts of the season against the NL Central leaders. They got a solid effort in a spot start by Luke Farrell, shu...2022
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• Congratulations to Pat Hughes, Hall of Fame Frick Award winner
Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs radio voice accepted his award in Cooperstown over the weekend. Pat Hughes, now in his 28th season of calling Cubs games on radio, was the winner of this year’s Ford C. Frick Award, given by the Baseball Hall of Fame for broadcasting excellence. Honestly, I cannot think of a more deserving recipient. In addition to his excellent radio calls of Cubs ...2023
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• The Cubs won the World Series on this date in 2016 and you can watch Game 7 tonight on Marquee
The moment of victory | Getty Images With a Cubs-related twist. As you surely know, the Cubs broke their 108-year World Series drought on November 2, 2016 — well, actually, after midnight November 3 in Cleveland — by winning Game 7 over Cleveland 8-7 in 10 innings. Undoubtedly you remember all the details of the game. And if you would rather re-watch that than tonight’s Game 4 of the 2022 ...2022
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• Scott Rolen has been elected to the Hall of Fame
Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images He’ll be inducted in Cooperstown this summer. Longtime major league third baseman Scott Rolen was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame by the BBWAA in the results of balloting announced Tuesday evening. Rolen got 76.3 percent of the vote, five votes over the 75 percent required for induction. Others who came close to induction: Todd Helton, with 72.2 per...2023
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• Wrigley Field gates will open 90 minutes to game time in 2023
Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com That’s a change from past practice. The Cubs announced a number of Opening Day and Opening Series events Thursday, including some new food offerings that include the Chicago burger place “Small Cheval” being offered in the bleachers. The team also announced via press release that gates at Wrigley Field will open 90 minutes before first pi...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Sunday 5/12, 12:35 CT

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs go for the series win. Today’s roster move: Here Sunday notes... THE CUBS AT PNC PARK: Yesterday’s game was the 13th in which the Cubs have given up at least 10 runs at PNC Park since it opened in 2001. They lost all 13 games. It was their 199th game at the park, where they are 108-90-1, including 16-0 when they have scored 10 or more runs. Sinc...2024
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Miami Marlins preview, Sunday 4/21, 1:20 CT

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series win. Sunday notes... SUNDAY, FUN DAY: The Cubs are 3-0 on Sundays so far this season, having won at Texas, at home against the Dodgers and at Seattle. Last year, they did not win their third game on Sunday until July 9, by which time they had lost 12. They won their fourth 2 weeks later, making them 4-13. They were 5-15 thro...2024
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Seattle Mariners preview, Sunday 4/14, 3:10 CT
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• Cub Tracks’ Seiya sooner

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs set their roster, play an exhibition game against the stinkin’ Cardinals. Stinkin’ Cardinals kick two field goals and win. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers an...2024
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