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Cubs' Harden's been hardened by skeptics
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | 7 months ago
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The realization started to sink in near the end of last season, after 2 1 / 2 months in Chicago...Even if he gets through his first 30-start season in five years? "No." No matter how strong and how successful this season eventually looks? "No." Because...
Tags: Geovany Soto, Cubs
Things to do? Cubs not listless
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Carlos Zambrano got done pitching Sunday and said, "I'm ready to rock and roll." He has two spring training starts to go before he gets that chance, two weeks from today, in the Cubs' opener against the Astros in Houston. But Zambrano's sense of anticipation...
Tags: Cubs
Cubs pound White Sox 13-0 at spring training
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Guillen also yelled "wake up" to Lou Piniella on several occasions trying to get a reaction from his Cubs counterpart. "With Ozzie, you just nod a lot and shake your head," Piniella said. Of course, that was early in the game, when rookie Jeff Marquez...
Lengthening spring training for WBC a mistake
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Never, under any circumstances, make spring training last more than six weeks again. In deference to the World Baseball Classic , players reported Feb. 13 this year, with most season openers set for April 6. It might have seemed like a good idea at the...
Tags: Cubs, Carlos Marmol, spring training, WBC, world baseball, Fitch Park, baseball classic
Prep Girls’ Wrestling: Cubs lead at state tournament
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The Sedro-Woolley girls’ wrestling team may take its place today among the school’s long and storied list of state champions. Four Cubs stormed into today’s semifinals at Mat Classic and Sedro-Woolley grabbed the team lead in points over Kelso, giving...
Tags: Cubs, mat classic
Soriano tours lineup without playing a game
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Piniella later added that if the season opened now, Soriano would be his leadoff man, but the cat was already out of the bag. Soriano said Tuesday he was OK with moving if Piniella left him in one spot. The story took a day off Wednesday before Piniella...
Tags: Alfonso Soriano, Cubs, Piniella
Soriano not sore about possible order shift
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Alfonso Soriano, oft-maligned as the Cubs' leadoff hitter the last two seasons, said he'll gladly move to whatever spot in the batting order manager Lou Piniella wants to put him. But wherever he moves, he wants to stay there. "That's what I like to do,"...
Tags: Cubs, Lou Piniella, managers lou, White Sox, Alfonso Soriano, Arizona, president obama, leadoff spot
It's (guessing) game over already for Cubs
Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility After the abrupt and bitter ending to a 2008 season that had opened with a World Series prediction from pitcher Ryan Dempster on the first day of spring training, Cubs manager Lou Piniella said Sunday he was glad none of his players made similar predictions...
Tags: Lou Piniella, Milton Bradley, Cubs, Alfonso Soriano, spring training
Orioles complete trade for pitcher Hill
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Hill, 28, was considered one of baseball's best young pitchers a year ago, but he has declined sharply since the beginning of 2008. He was demoted after five starts because of an inability to throw strikes, and the trend continued in the minors and in...
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Casey Kotchman, Manny Ramirez, Oliver Perez, Baltimore Orioles, salary arbitration, avoiding salary, New York Mets, Cubs, contract worth
Thomas Ricketts:'My family and I are Cubs fans'
Wilmette :: IL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Business Reporter droeder@suntimes.com It was the 1984 campaign that cinched it, the kind of exhilarating, heartbreaking season that becomes a generational touchstone for Cubs fans. That was when 18-year-old Thomas Ricketts came to town from Omaha to...
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