40 years ago today, Ferris Bueller skipped school to catch a Cubs game. Turns out the movie got most of the baseball details right, but there’s one hilarious irony: Ferris was actually cheering on the game-winning rally… for the OTHER team
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With Rizzo making his return to Wrigley today, it’s interesting how the Cubs chose this game to honor Aramis Ramírez’s induction into the Cubs Hall of Fame. The timing feels a bit off. You’d think the team would’ve noticed on the schedule that the Cubs were playing the Yankees in September—Rizzo’s first game back at
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Player RBI Date AB R H 1B 2B 3B HR Christian Bethancourt 7 2024-08-28 5 3 3 1 1 0 1 Willson Contreras 7 2018-05-11 5 2 4 0 2 0 2 Geovany Soto 7 2008-08-26 5 3 3 0 2 0 1 Barry Foote 8 1980-04-22 6 2 4 1 1 0 2 George
Christian Bethancourt is the sixth Cubs catcher to get 7+ RBIs in a single game. Read More »
Through his first seven games as a Cub, Isaac Paredes is 3-for-27 (.111). His OPS+ is 1. Yipes. Is this one of the worst starts with the Cubs ever? Not really. Since 1901, there have been 96 players who had three or fewer hits in his first 7 games with the Cubs. (With a minimum
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Cubs fans know Fergie Jenkins as the greatest Cubs pitcher ever. So it feels odd seeing him go to Texas to participate in a Texas Rangers Legends celebration. Fergie played 6 seasons for the Rangers (vs 10 seasons for the Cubs). For the Rangers, he finished 2nd and 6th in Cy Young voting. He struck
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On this day in 1972, Dick Allen transforms the Minnesota’s Metropolitan Stadium into his personal pinball machine. He hit two inside-the-park home runs. (video on Facebook). Even more striking to me in the video is not the home runs, but the bare chain-link fences. No fancy padding, no sleek designs – just good ol’ backyard-style
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Wrigley Field has immensely less foul territory in left field than Tropicana field.
Only three Cubs with 100 HR / 100 SB Cubs who came very close Where do some of the more recent Cubs stand? Player HR with Cubs SB with Cubs HR+SB needed for 100/100 Javier Báez 140 76 24 Corey Patterson 70 86 28 Alfonso Soriano 181 70 30 Mark Grace 148 67 33 Anthony
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What Cubs have played in the most World Series? When talking about the Cubs and the World Series, what comes to mind the most is the 1908 Cubs and the 2016 Cubs. The Cubs players from the 1930s get ignored a lot. The Cubs were in three World Series that decade. Guys like Stan Hack
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Alfonso Soriano nearly broke the record for most consecutive games reaching base while batting leadoff. From August 27, 2006 to May 27, 2007 he reached base in 58 consecutive games.
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Kyle Hendricks who had the best ERA in baseball in 2016, now has baseball’s worst ERA in 2024 (through his first five starts) Highest ERA by a Cub in first five starts Year Player ERA 2024 Kyle Hendricks 12.00 1999 Micah Bowie 9.78 2006 Rich Hill 9.53 2021 Zach Davies 9.47 2022 Steve Smyth 9.00
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If I ever got an autograph from him, I’d want him to inscribe it with “born on 9/9/99”
Cubs pitcher Ben Brown was born on 9/9/99 Read More »
Justin Steele 2024 opening day stats Justin Steele will be the first time the Cubs Opening Day starter is a lefty that the Cubs drafted. (via desipio) Justin Steele will also be the Cubs 3rd youngest left Opening Day starter. (via 57hits) Since 2016, the Cubs Opening Day record is 8-2 (via stathead) Greg Maddux
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Tired of Twitter’s unpredictable algorithm? Seeking more control over your feed? Enter BlueSky, a refreshing alternative to Twitter. Maybe you should try BlueSky, one of the Twitter alternatives. A great thing about BlueSky is the ability to follow custom feeds. These feeds can be about anything. I made a feed that includes posts about the
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Last night I started doodling around a scorecard that integrates a timeline sequence. Here’s a quick sketch based on the Cubs 2016 World Series game 7. A couple weeks ago I came across a book by John Cage that captures a bunch of alternative ways of writing a music score. That got me thinking about
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