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• BCB After Dark: Power men

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks about the Cubs’ home run totals for 2025. It’s showtime here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest get-together of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few tables available. The drinks are free, but it’s bring your ow...2025
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• Tokyo travelogue: Sunday at the Imperial Palace grounds, Ueno Park and Akihabara

Some of the cherry blossoms are out early | Al Yellon These are all iconic places in the Japanese capital. TOKYO — Sunday was another gorgeous day here, with unlimited sunshine and temps in the low 70s. It’s weather I wish I could bring back for Opening Day in Chicago, but... well, you know how that goes. I have a LOT of photos to share with you today, hope you enjoy all of them. The first...2025
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• Will the NFL’s playoff format be changed? If so, to what?

Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images There is a proposal later this month to change the playoffs as we know it A long time ago, professional baseball was the king of sports. Everyone loved it, went to games, and followed it. With this in mind, every sports league did what baseball did. When baseball added numbers to their jerseys, other leagues...2025
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• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images You cannot win games walking that many opposing hitters. TOKYO — I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but walks will just kill a baseball team. Yes, the Cubs didn’t provide much offense and that’s another story, but the five walks Shōta Imanaga and Ben Brown issued in the first five innings of this game resulted in most of the Dodgers runs, and the de...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers at Tokyo preview, Tuesday 3/18, 5:10 a.m. CT

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The 2025 MLB season opens with a terrific pitching matchup in Japan. TOKYO — ICYMI, today’s Cubs roster moves are here. Opening Day in Japan notes... CUBS OPENING DAY HISTORY: This Opening Day game will be the Cubs’: Second outside the United States, both at Tokyo... First outside the U.S. as the home team... First as the home team at any ballpark for th...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Twenty-five years after the Cubs faced the Mets for two in the Tokyo Dome, they’ll play a pair against the Dodgers in the same Japanese venue. Usually, series previews here at BCB post a few hours before the series opens. But this series will be played halfway across the world at the Tokyo Dome, with the first pitch of both games scheduled...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images This is a division of haves and have-nots. Last year, three AL Central teams made the postseason and four finished over .500. This was largely because they all fattened up against the awful White Sox. The Twins, Tigers, Guardians and Royals went 42-10 against the White Sox. Wow. The Cubs, meanwhile, were 10-6 against the AL Central last year. So that...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Who will get the last spot in the Cubs rotation?

Javier Assad pitches at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Assad is sidelined with an oblique injury Welcome to your end of the weekend, start of the week, indie coffee shop where we are serving up all the drinks to end your weekend right alongside the caffeinated beverages to start your week off right. Be sure you bus your tables and tip your wait...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 28, 2025
Old Faces In New Places Thairo Estrada, 2B, Rockies Thairo Estra signed with the Rockies this offseason on a one-year contract worth $3.25 million. He was a huge disappointment in 2024, slashing just .217/.247.343 with 9 home runs and 2 stolen bases in 96 games. This was the follow-up to a 2023 season where he batted .271 with 14 homers and 23 steals. He suffered a wrist injury in May, and the in...2025
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• With Alexander Canario gone, how many Cubs remain from the 2021 selloff?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Here’s a look at all the players who were sent away and acquired in that flurry of deals nearly four years ago. News item: The Cubs have traded OF Alexander Canario to the Mets for cash considerations, sources tell ESPN. Canario, 24, was DFA’d by the Cubs last week.— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) February 25, 2025 Well. This isn’t the...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?

Alexander Canario hits a home run against the Marlins in April | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images This is not a trick question Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop where the drinks are running all night and whether you need something to warm your body up after a brutally cold Chicago week or something to cool down after getting fired up watching the Cubs beat the Dodgers in ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19

Miguel Batista pitches for the Expos vs. the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Opening Day 1998 | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Miguel Batista. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lor...2025
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• The friendship of two Cubs fans led to a life-saving kidney transplant

Al Yellon This is your good news story for the week. With Spring Training about to begin, I thought this would be a good time to tell this story. Denise Vasquez and Cathy Weadley are both die-hard Cubs fans. Denise is retired from the US Navy and lives in the Phoenix area. Some of you might recognize or know Cathy, as she is a member of the gameday staff at Wrigley Field. They met a few ye...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ weregild

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. Everything has a price. 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,...2025
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• Derrek Lee and Sammy Sosa voted to the Cubs Hall of Fame, and Cubs Convention open thread

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Cubs players, past and present, and fans are gathered at the Sheraton Grand in downtown Chicago. Sammy Sosa was welcomed back to the Cubs family Friday night at the Opening Ceremony of the Cubs Convention, and at the same time, Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts announced that Sosa and Derrek Lee would be the newest inductees to the...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15

Happy Birthday, Matt Duffy | Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Matt Duffy* and others, and stories of baseball deeds and misdeeds. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colo...2025
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• Hanshin Tigers 3, Cubs 0: Welcome to Japan, Cubs fans!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The Cubs offense was mostly silent in this exhibition game. But there were lots of other things to see and do in Tokyo. TOKYO — The Cubs took the field at the Tokyo Dome Saturday afternoon (Japan time) against the Hanshin Tigers and fell flat. The Tigers’ top prospect, 20-year-old lefthander Keito Mombetsu threw five perfect innings against Cubs hitters, l...2025
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• MLB should consider starting the regular season later

Getty Images Weather in northern cities is just bad in late March/early April. Monday’s Cubs home opener was played in conditions not really suitable for baseball. It was 43 degrees at game time — bad enough — but then around the sixth inning it started raining, making conditions miserable for fans and players alike. The weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t any better, in fact,...2024
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• Wrigley Field will need some changes before MLB awards the Cubs an All-Star Game

Looking west down Addison Street past Wrigley Field, January 17, 2024 | Mike Bojanowski It has to do with ballpark security. The Cubs last hosted an All-Star Game at Wrigley Field in 1990. The only current MLB park that previously hosted a Midsummer Classic that’s had a longer hosting drought is the Oakland Coliseum, which last hosted one in 1987 — and I’m pretty sure you can understand wh...2024
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• Cubs 7, Blue Jays 5: At last, a win in Canada
Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The Cubs ended a 14-year losing streak north of the border. TORONTO — It required six relievers (seven, if you count Luke Farrell on what was a bullpen day) and some timely hitting, but Wednesday night the Cubs ended a losing streak in Canada that had lasted more than 14 years. Sure, it was only a five-game Canadian losing streak (three in 2014, the first ...2022
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2025
"But he also nodded to Cubs fans when singing the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field in 2015: He sang, appropriately, “I’ll root, root, root for the Brewers, you do the same for the Cubs."

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"A-Ram also gave us some magical moments at Wrigley Field; perhaps the best of them was this two-run walkoff home run against the Brewers in 2007 [VIDEO]."

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"Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston in 1997 | VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images They’ll be honored at Wrigley Field September 8-10."

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"In any case, I was very happy to see Contreras in the lineup the Tuesday before the trade deadline so the Wrigley Field faithful could give him a sendoff, and they did that in tremendous fashion, as I wrote in the game recap."

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"Fans visiting a newly approved sportsbook will be able to enter Wrigley Field from inside, but they won't be required to be attending the game to make bets."

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"The city of Chicago has approved Wrigley Field rooftop stands for 25% capacity setups and tickets have gone on sale at one viewing venue for $350."

2019
"The Cubs’ reported lack of spending capacity has been the offseason’s main storyline out of Wrigley Field, though in a recent radio interview on 670 The Score (partial transcript here), president of baseball operations Theo Epstein dismissed the idea that the Competitive Balance Tax is “dictating any of our actions or inactions this winter at…"

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"A 20-year-old Cubs fan is suing team owners to force them to provide better wheelchair access at Wrigley Field."

2017
"The Cubs' second-half offensive surge continued on Saturday at Wrigley Field as Rene Rivera smacked his first career grand slam, Anthony Rizzo reached 100 RBIs with a bases-clearing triple and Javier Baez added a solo home run and RBI double to post a 14-12 victory over the Braves for Chicago's sixth straight win."

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"The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago."

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"PHOTO: Wrigley Field showing Stanley Cup Final on big screen during rain delay"

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"SAN DIEGO — Suddenly, in the middle of the night on the East Coast, construction on the Chicago Cubs’ roster dramatically blew past the construction that is remodeling Wrigley Field."

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• A brief history of Cubs neutral site games

Cubs vs. Reds at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here are all the games the Cubs have played at parks not the usual homes for MLB teams. The Cubs are getting ready to face the Dodgers in Japan Tuesday evening (7:10 p.m. local time, 5:10 a.m. in Chicago), their first neutral-site games since they faced the Cardinals in London in J...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs sign Lance Lynn?

Lance Lynn pitches at Wrigley Field as a member of the White Sox in 2021 | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images There are rumors connecting the two Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop. We’re a bit jet lagged vicariously as the Cubs and some of their fans traveled to Japan for the Tokyo Series this week. Here in Chicago we’re serving some green matcha IPAs, a sake bomb or two...2025
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• Cub Tracks has the vapors

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs will be heading to Japan for some strangeness with the Dodgers. The guys in the picture are on the trip roster. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 8

Longtime White Sox bullpen catcher Mark Salas celebrates his 64th birthday today. | Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images Happy birthday to a bullpen catcher with a friendly smile 1942 Future White Sox MVP Dick Allen was born in Wampum, Pa. Allen set a franchise mark with 37 home runs in his 1972 MVP year, along with 113 RBIs. His 8.6 WAR in 1972 ranks second all-time among White Sox hitters (Eddi...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL East

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs did reasonably well against these teams in 2024. The AL East has traditionally been a tough division, though last year only two of the teams finished over .500. The Cubs went 7-8 against these five teams, though that nearly even record was boosted by sweeping the Orioles. They were only 4-8 vs. the Red Sox, Rays, Blue Jays and Yan...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL West

Will the Dodgers hoist the World Series trophy again in 2025? | Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images One team in particular dominates all talk about this division. Something something Dodgers. Given what the Dodgers have spent the last couple of offseasons, they should win this division by eleventy-seven games, right? As you surely know, baseball doesn’t work that way. They l...2025
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• Cubs 16, Padres 1: The guys sure earned their off day

Steve Sher The Cubs piled it on a split squad of Padres. MESA, Arizona — This was an unusual game for this early in Spring Training. Not one player from the Cubs minor-league camp played in Tuesday’s 16-1 Cubs win over the Padres. All of the 24 Cubs in this game were either 40-man roster guys or official NRI’s to Spring Training. The likely reason is Wednesday’s off day, so Craig Counsell ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs sign Lance Lynn?
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• Cubs vs. Brewers at Mesa preview, Tuesday 3/11, 3:05 CT

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images After this game, the Cubs’ next contest will be in Tokyo. Tuesday notes... ATTENDANCE WATCH: The Cubs’ home game against the Mariners on Saturday attracted a crowd of 16,161, most ever for a spring training game. It also was more than 327 regular-season games in 2024. Five of those games involved the Cubs: 11,936 on Aug. 26, 12,660 on Aug. 28 and 1...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West

Kyle looks weird in that red uniform | Photo by Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are a lot of things still up in the air for this division. The Cubs went 9-6 against AL West teams last year, including an unlikely sweep of the Astros at Wrigley Field. Houston went on to win the division, but this year... might be different. Houston Astros Key departures: Kyle Tucker, Alex Br...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game

Al Yellon The Commissioner met with reporters on the annual Cactus League Media Day. PHOENIX, Arizona — It’s a rite of spring just as much as pitcher/catcher report day or the first Spring Training game. That’s the annual appearance of Commissioner Rob Manfred at a conference room at the Arizona Biltmore hotel to meet with the media. I’m glad to have been able to attend this presser so I c...2025
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• The origin of the Vedder Cup

The Vedder Cup is alive and well for the 2025 season | Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images A trophy will be awarded to the winner of the Padres and Mariners season series If you ever attended a Seattle Mariners vs. San Diego Padres game at Petco Park, the chant of Vedder Cup can be heard throughout Gallagher Square moments before first pitch. Remember, there was no physical trophy awarded to...2025
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• A few thoughts about traveling to Japan to see the Cubs play

The scoreboard at the Tokyo Dome after the Cubs win on March 29, 2000 | Al Yellon And a brief review of what happened the last time they played there. I’m departing this afternoon out of O’Hare Airport in Chicago to fly to Japan to see the Cubs face the Dodgers in the 2025 season opening Tokyo Series. (If you’re interested in tracking it, I’m on United flight 881, scheduled to leave about ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Carson Kelly

Steve Sher The Cubs’ new backup catcher has hit well so far in Spring Training. View this post on Instagram A post shared by cubs (@cubs) Carson Kelly has been both a starter and backup in The Show. He’s had four years of more than 300 at-bats in a nine-year career, and fared well enough. He has a pretty good bat — not just ‘as a catcher’ but 10-20 home...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 19
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game
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• Dodgers' Series dream ends with loss to Cubs
The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, to wrap up the 11th NL pennant in franchise history....2016
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• With first Wrigley clinch, Cubs move on to NLCS
For the first time in the history of Wrigley Field, the Cubs clinched a postseason series at home, edging the mighty Cardinals, 6-4, in Game 4 of the National League Division Series. The Cubs now can party as they wait to see whether they'll face the Mets or the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series, which opens on Saturday....2015
• Cards denied 5th straight NLCS appearance
For the first time in the history of Wrigley Field, the Cubs clinched a postseason series at home, edging the mighty Cardinals, 6-4, in Game 4 of the National League Division Series. The Cubs now can party as they wait to see whether they'll face the Mets or the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series, which opens on Saturday....2015
• Cubs sink Cards' 'pen after Waino-Lester duel
On Friday night, the Cardinals scored nine runs in the eighth inning to post a win over the Cubs. On Saturday, the Cubs got some payback. Kris Bryant hit a game-tying RBI single and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double, both with two outs in the eighth inning, to lift the Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field....2017
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• 'Pen can't hold off Cubs after HRs back Waino
On Friday night, the Cardinals scored nine runs in the eighth inning to post a win over the Cubs. On Saturday, the Cubs got some payback. Kris Bryant hit a game-tying RBI single and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double, both with two outs in the eighth inning, to lift the Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field....2017
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• Dodgers dealt NLCS blow; face must-win Game 6
The Cubs are one win away from their first World Series appearance since 1945 after their 8-4 win over the Dodgers in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. Chicago leads the best-of-seven series, three games to two, with Game 6 scheduled for Saturday at Wrigley Field....2016
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• Cubs' Hype-Filled Roster Still at Least a Year Away from MLB Success
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• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon
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• Hanshin Tigers 3, Cubs 0: Welcome to Japan, Cubs fans!
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• With Alexander Canario gone, how many Cubs remain from the 2021 selloff?
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs sign Nicky Lopez?

Nicky Lopez takes an at bat at Wrigley Field during the Crosstown Classic | Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Welcome to your end of the weekend, heading into the work week coffee shop where we’ve got whatever you’re looking for tonight we’ve got you covered. If you’d like a warm chai tea to get your evening going, we can do that. If you’re looking for a shot of something a little stronger...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where should the Cubs find more pitching?

Justin Steele warms up before a game against the Cardinals in August in front of a sold out Wrigley Field | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The roster has improved but more can be done before Spring Training Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’re pouring all the beverages you can imagine to help you get through January. If you’re looking for som...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1925

Rabbit Maranville | Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images This was a rough year for the North Siders. But they did make a couple of good acquisitions. The 1925 season was a peculiar outlier in franchise history. After three decent seasons where the Cubs finished with winning records but well out of first place, they collapsed and finished last in 1925 at 68-86 — their first-eve last-place...2025
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• Cubs 4, Astros 3: Getting the job done

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Dansby Swanson’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run first inning that the Cubs made hold up for another win. It wasn’t the best of games. Cubs hitters struck out 12 times. Some sketchy defense helped lead to a Houston run. The Cubs had only one hit after the fourth inning. And yet, the Cubs put a large crooked number on the board in the first inning f...2024
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• Another update on the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas situation

Fans at the Oakland Coliseum in September 2022 | Al Yellon Just when you thought it couldn’t get messier, it has. Gonna say this right now, off the top, so we’re all on the same page: If this topic doesn’t interest you, go pass it on by and click on some other BCB article. I think the issues surrounding the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas are important for the entire future o...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• This might end up being the best Braves lineup in franchise history
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Atlanta Braves as a franchise have had some fantastic offenses dating back to their days in Boston. This might be the best in that long, long line. Yesterday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves walloped the Los Angeles Angels 12-5. This included a six-run barrage in the fourth inning that ultimately put the game out of reach at 9-1 at that point. The baseba...2023
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• Cubs Land Jon Lester in Late-Night Strike, and Dreams of Contending Soar
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