We cover the coverage like PCA covers center field. So long, Professor. Cade was jobbed, too.
Some things are set in stone, and some ain’t. One day, this will all be so much hieroglyphics. Hell, maybe we’re
going backward and can read tablets in the original instead of swallowing them for our daily bread.
The gambling? An inevitable bullet point on that future timeline. Was even part of the plot for my baseball noir, now in its third year of counter-production.
Bryce Harper giving Rob the bum’s rush is okay by me. I am on the side of 86ing the anti-trust exemption anyway. MLB is quite clearly engaged in interstate commerce, a disqualification in Federal Baseball Club v. National League (SABR), as dictated by the Clayton antitrust act of 1914.
Was Harper rude? Maybe. Was he right?
“That’s a clown question, bro.”
Ownership is so crooked, they have to screw their pants on. Continued on next rock.
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- Maddie Lee (Chicago Sun-Times* {$}): Cubs great Kyle Hendricks set to retire from playing after 12 major-league seasons. “Hendricks spent all but one year of his decorated major-league career with the Cubs.” North Side Baseball has more.
- Thomas Harrigan (MLB.com*): Team-by-team breakdown of every free agent. “Before the offseason really starts to heat up…”
- Brett Taylor (Bleacher Nation*): It’s Official: Japanese Ace Tatsuya Imai will be posted. “He will be one of the most highly sought-after starting pitchers on the market…”
- Jason Ross (North Side Baseball*): Four under-the-radar relievers Cubs should pursue to rebuild bullpen. “… most of their pieces will not be returning in 2026.”
- Meghan Montemurro (Chicago Tribune* {$}): Chicago Cubs win National League team Gold Glove Award: ‘We were pretty exceptional’. “Rawlings created the team award in 2020, giving out one in each league.”
- Bruce Levine (Marquee Sports Network*): Examining a possible Pete Crow-Armstrong extension with Cubs. “There is no telling his ceiling as a ballplayer.”
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