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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 111
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 111
    Photo by Lawrence Brown/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs falter, then recover late for a 5-3 walk-off win. If you came out of the trade deadline frustrated, then this weekend at Wrigley Field probably didn’t do anything to allay your concerns or frustrations. Certainly, an Orioles team that traded away a good chunk of its players and had been well under .500 didn’t feel like a series ...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 110
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 110
    Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs stumble late in a 4-3 loss to the Orioles. Two games ago, I noted the Cubs had played .500 over the last 36 games. That number now is 38 games. This game is just stuck in neutral. While they are stuck there, the Brewers ran right past them. Nothing is over with more than 50 games remaining in the season, but as the season grows shorter, every game ba...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 109
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 109
    Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The Cubs return home and win behind terrific pitching. So, did anything happen since we last spoke? There were a couple of trades, huh? This is Tom’s platform and while I usually just talk about the game and generally how things are going. As a guy who purports to talk about the big picture, I don’t think the trade deadline is a thing that I can ign...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 108
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 108
    Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Cubs avoid a sweep with a 10-3 win ahead of the trade deadline. Phew. That was a cathartic win. You could feel the tension building in Chicago and throughout Cubs Nation. I mean, way back in game number 72, the Cubs reached 18 games over .500. Here they are 36 games later at that same mark. Though I’m completely comfortable giving some corners of Cub f...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 107
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 107
    Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The Cubs were crushed by the Brewers, 9-3. If you watched the Cubs these last two days in Milwaukee and were prone to knee-jerk reactions, you’d stand pat with all of your prospect capital or shop in the clearance bin. You hate to ever use two games as any kind of litmus test. But on these two days, these are two teams headed in completely different...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 106
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 106
    Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A rough day all around for the Cubs, who lose 8-4. I ended work for the day on a little bit of a high note, seeing the Jed Hoyer extension. We’re not alike if you don’t think that was the right thing to do. At least one national baseball website had the Cubs as their No. 1 team in their weekly power rankings. I’m dismissive of those o...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 96
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 96
    Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images The Cubs win 4-1 to take the series from the Yankees. A terrific bounce back over the weekend for the Cubs. Two strong wins and heading into the break, the Cubs are on a really high note. They also get a full reset. They aren’t in desperate need of the reset. But I’ll go out on a limb and guess at least one or two of the players have some aches, pains, bumps an...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 93
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 93
    Photo by David Berding/Getty Images A bounce back in the Twin Cities: The Cubs win 8-1. Was it only yesterday I wrote about how bad a good team could look? The same team that looked out of sorts and overmatched the last two days busted out and crushed the Twins on Thursday afternoon in Minnesota. With the exception of one game in Houston recently, it’s amazing how much this team falls in...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 92
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 92
    Photo by Scott Kane/Getty Images The Cubs lose their second straight in Minnesota, 4-2. I think that no matter how long I’ve been a baseball fan, I’ll never stop being fascinated how fast a bad team can look good and vice versa. There’s a lot of fool’s gold to be found over the course of a baseball season. If you had been out of the country or something and not following the Cubs before t...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 91
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 91
    Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images The road trip opens with a dud for the Cubs in an 8-1 loss. Ho hum. The 8-1 final score doesn’t look like too frustrating of a game. That looks like one that you laugh and say nothing went our way. But for seven and a half innings, this game could have gone either way. But the Twins executed when they needed to and the Cubs didn’t. This is one of those gam...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 88
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 88
    Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Bombs were flying out of Wrigley Field in an 11-3 rout of the Cardinals. Heroes and Goats warning, this is one of those days where WPA might feel less than entirely satisfying. Something I’ve said for so long that I was saying it before I was even the one writing this feature. When the game gets lopsided quickly, whatever happens first tends to set the order...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 85
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 85
    Photo by Daniel Bartel/Getty Images The Cubs return home and pick up a 5-2 win. If any part of you thinks the Cubs front office doesn’t understand this team and what is has to offer, then you have to appreciate the way the last couple of weeks have played out. It feels like a single solitary variable. Good start? If yes, then they win. I suppose Sunday’s game was the one exception. But ev...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 97
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 97
    Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs start the second half with a 4-1 win. A quick heads up to start, I will be on vacation beginning today through next Saturday. All things equal, I should be writing next Saturday’s recap as my next one. That’s the game on July 26. Al is graciously filling in for me while I’m gone with a brief form of this. Expect standings to return somewhere around ...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 95
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 95
    Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images The Cubs bounce back behind Matthew Boyd in a 5-2 win. This team has been all over the place lately. World beaters one day and embarrassing the next. I’ve noted several times that as their starting pitching goes, so goes the game. That was evident here again. Matthew Boyd was dominant and until very late in the game, they dominated the game. This one had a nic...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 30
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 30
    Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs offense revives in a 9-0 trouncing of the Pirates. After Phillies pitching stifled the Cubs offense for the most part over the weekend, it was a refreshing sight to see the Cubs offense come out in force Tuesday night. It was what you hoped would happen and happen it did. After being mowed down the first time through the order, the Cubs offens...2025
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  • 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148
    • 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 117
    • 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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Timeline

  • 2025
    "Rizzo Award Standings: (Top 5/Bottom 5) The award is named for Anthony Rizzo, who finished first in this category three of the first four years it was in existence and four times overall."

  • 2024
    "Rizzo Award Cumulative Standings: (Top 3/Bottom 3) The award is named for Anthony Rizzo, who finished first in this category three of the first four years it was in existence and four times overall."

  • 2023
    "195) Yesterday’s winners: Cody Bellinger (Game 1) and Hayden Wesneski (Game 2) - [Superhero is 91-44] Rizzo Award Cumulative Standings: (Top 5/Bottom 5) The award is named for Anthony Rizzo, who finished first in this category three of the first four years it was in existence and four times overall."

  • 2022
    "123) Rizzo Award Cumulative Standings: (Top 3/Bottom 3) The award is named for Anthony Rizzo, who finished first in this category three of the first four years it was in existence and four times overall."

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Rizzo Award trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 105
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 105
    Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs hang on for a 5-4 win over the Sox. Clearly you guys just needed me to get back in the country. The Cubs were on a four-game winning streak when I left. They dropped four of five while I was outside of the States. Then they’ve won two in a row since I got back. As near as I can tell, I will also be traveling the week of the Wo...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 104
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 104
    Getty Images The Cubs bounce back behind Horton and homers in a 6-1 win. Where were you on July 25, 2015? I was at sea. My family has a passion for cruising and that is the most memorable cruise date for me. I didn’t see Cole Hamels no-hit the Cubs that day. I sometimes like to imagine that I live in some alternate universe where the Cubs haven’t been no-hit since Sandy Koufax’s perfect ga...2025
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  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 97
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: First half recap
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: First half recap
    Dale Zanine-Imagn Images A look at the complete standings and top WPA games. The photo at the top of this post is an unusual image to see. Not just because of a rare appearance of the red billed Cubs hat. Kyle Tucker is coming from left field and not his familiar right field and catching the ball in front of Pete Crow-Armstrong. This was, of course, from the All-Star Game where Tucker sta...2025
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  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 104
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 90
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 90
    Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs crush the Cardinals in the series finale. We begin where I ended yesterday. Let’s take the momentum back, win the series and leave the Cardinals battered on their way out. Mission accomplished. With all due respect, the Cubs left no question who the better team was this week. Baseball being baseball, that doesn’t mean it will be that way for the entire r...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 89
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 89
    David Banks-Imagn Images The Cubs bullpen has a rare bad game, resulting in an 8-6 loss. Every time your bullpen falters late and costs you a game, it is unfortunate. This one feels a little more unfortunate. Obviously, you hate to ever yield the Cardinals even an inch. But more so, this weekend has been Michael Busch’s explosion weekend. Four homers in two days. Seven hits. Six runs driv...2025
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  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 88
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 81
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 81
    Jeff Curry-Imagn Images The Cubs split their series against the Cardinals behind their second straight shutout. Last year’s Rizzo Award winner, Shōta Imanaga, returned and threw five scoreless innings. A Cubs bullpen coming off of one of their worst stretches of the year stopped the momentum on a dime and didn’t allow a run in this series. The bullpen came up huge in this series. They kep...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 60
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 60
    Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The Cubs continue to roll with an 8-3 win in Washington. I talked over the weekend about the Cubs and answering challenges. The Washington Nationals are still rebuilding. They aren’t Mt. Everest. Also, winning on the road is hard. The Nationals are under .500 at home, but they aren’t the Rockies. Also, even the Rockies have six wins at home (and a two-...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 52
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 52
    Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The Cubs stumble early again and come up short on a comeback in a 6-4 loss. It’s been years since I was anywhere close to a “watch 162 games closely” person. There definitely was a point in life where if at all possible I was either watching or listening. A combination of parenting and adulting along with a dose of really bad Cubs baseball pushed me to so...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45
    Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs win 13-3 behind PCA and some sloppy White Sox play. The Cubs continue to excel in the first game of each series, particularly at Wrigley Field. I still suspect most of this is random sequencing. It’s ironic, because the way the Cubs can make other pitching staffs work, I might expect them to do well at the end of a series. But that h...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41
    Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Cubs tease a series win but come up short in a 6-2 loss. Today’s shocking fact is that the Cubs weren’t quite good enough against the Mets in New York in a series where they were without Justin Steele, Shōta Imanaga and Ian Happ. Ryan Pressly hasn’t worked out at closer and the Cubs are at the tail end of what has been and probably will remain the tou...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 34
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 34
    Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The homers just keep coming in a 6-2 win over the Brewers. The Cubs had been winning more frequently against right-handed starters than left. Jose Quintana had only allowed one homer. He had won all of his starts this year. And none of those things are true any longer. The Cubs took him deep three times in rapid succession, scoring six runs in all against ...2025
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  • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
    • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
    Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images For the second game, the Reds rally in the ninth to beat the Cubs. Heavy sigh, part two. I’m invoking early day game after a night game formation. As in, an abridged Heroes and Goats today. I’m going to give you bullet points rather than a full narrative. The Cubs lost consecutive games for the first time since August 13 and 15 against the Blue Jays and W...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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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The nearly perfect one Nothing like a little afternoon baseball on in the background while you are finishing your work day. By the time I got off of an afternoon call, the Cubs were already battering Dodgers starter Julio Urias. I tuned in just in time for the top of the third, as Drew Smyly was recording his fifth and sixth consecutive strikeouts. Sometimes yo...2023
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  • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138
    • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Justin Steele dominates in a holiday 5-0 win. It was a long holiday weekend for me here in the Tampa area. I had an old friend in town and Sunday night was a very late night. There were a few drinks and only a few hours of sleep. I appreciate you all bearing with me while I gave you somewhat abridged versions of Heroes and Goats the last couple of days. The C...2023
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  • • 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 162
    Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images The Cubs win going away to close out the season All’s well that ends well, right? That probably doesn’t work here. But, I’m certainly glad this season ended with a win, and an emphatic one at that. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t mean anything. Not losing 90, winning more than last year, none of it actually means anything. Nothing you can hang you...2022
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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
  • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 116
    • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 116
    Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports Back in the win column in Toronto with 6-2 win. I have just one hope. Let’s hope the Cubs don’t become one of “those” teams. You know, the kind of team that beats the good teams but then does less than exceptional against the lesser teams. Instead, I like to think that the core of the Mets team that was put together with an eye on getting back to the World ...2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 53
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports A win! An impressive one at that! Well, here in the Heroes and Goats department of Bleed Cubbie Blue, this was hands down the performance of the year. Long time followers of this series know that at the end of the year, I bring you a list of top 10 and a bottom 10 games by WPA. I track scores +/- .400. To date, there had been no scores over .400. I certainly w...2023
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  • 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 25
    • 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 80
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 80
    Tim Vizer-Imagn Images The Cubs pummel the Cardinals to halt their skid in an 8-0 win. Score one for numerology. The Cubs win game number 80 by a score of 8-0. This game feels like the sports equivalent of turning your computer off and back on again. The system rebooted and things rolled back to an earlier boot of this season. I don’t have delusions that this just magically fixes what’s ...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 77
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 77
    Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images A little trouble in paradise: The Cubs lose 14-6. A little while back, I dropped my Cubs DEFCON to 4. I saw warning signs that suggested a slump might be coming. If you aren’t following me every day, I’m not in possession of any magic formula or inside info. The last time I saw the signs, I was dead wrong and they turned it on a dime and started dominating ag...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 75
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 75
    Matt Marton-Imagn Images Cubs pitching lets down in a 9-4 loss to the Mariners. With a day game Saturday after a Friday loss, you’ll pardon me if this one is pretty brief. I’m going to start with some data around runs scored. The Cubs are 17-0 when they score eight or more runs. To be clear, the story there is that they’ve reached that mark 17 times. They are 7-3 when they score exactly ...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 66
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 66
    Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A little short in Philly and the Cubs lose 4-3 in 11. My thoughts on modern extra inning baseball are well known. I won’t belabor that. The Cubs are 3-4 in extra innings. In what is a coin flip game (more or less regardless of talent level), that’s not awful. But, there aren’t a lot of splits in which the Cubs have a negative expecta...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 59
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 59
    Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs take the series from Reds with a 7-3 win. It’s always funny to me when finding my story feels like a visit to the psychiatrist. I’ve been flipping things over for a while and I feel like I’ve had a very patient psychiatrist who just patiently just kept asking for me to tell them more. Maybe scribbling a few notes, but not particularly interjec...2025
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 53
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 53
    Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Cubs comeback magic continues in an 11-8 win. On your Memorial Day, while you are remembering the fallen heroes that make the life that you are used to possible, how about also thinking of a couple of other blessings? First, you aren’t a Reds fan. The Reds were a trendy pick the last couple of years as a team on the upswing. That fandom wakes up this Mon...2025
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  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41
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  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 35
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 35
    Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Another frustrating Sunday, the Cubs lose 4-0. When does something arbitrary become something significant? If you haven’t been keeping track, the Cubs are now just 1-5 on Sundays. I don’t particularly think it is a getaway day issue. They are 3-3 in midweek series-enders. So it is at least a passing thought that there is something with Sundays. It sure w...2025
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