All posts tagged "Chicago Cubs"
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5.7K8MLBGiants stay alive with crazy 13-inning walk-off win
The Giants and Cubs didn’t play an entire season Monday night, it just felt like it — and not just because their 6-5...
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7.8K10MLBCubs win Game 1 … with help from first base umpire Alan Porter
The Giants didn’t score a run. The Cubs hit a ball over the left field wall and into a stupid basket. The...
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2.6K8Los Angeles DodgersSource: Lackey signs with Cubs after Giants wouldn’t match his price
The Giants’ top priority is Zack Greinke, as pretty much everyone knows by now. But if Greinke re-signs with the Dodgers or...
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4.7K8Hunter PenceWhy Giants fans should be happy that the Cubs lost
1. The 1998 play-in game If the 1997 season didn’t end disappointingly enough (Thanks, Devon!), a year later the Giants lost 5-3...
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3.8K13Matt CainMatt Cain is probably done (this year, anyway)
The pitch was supposed to be on the outside corner at the knees. Matt Cain got the knees part right, but the...
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3.9K3Buster PoseyKyle Schwarber enjoyed Bone Thugs more than Jake Peavy would’ve liked
Jake Peavy is a Grateful Dead guy, and fans of the Grateful Dead and Bone Thugs in Harmony rarely mix. That’s one...
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3.3K1Amici's East Coast PizzeriaA weekend to forget: Giants get swept, Aoki leaves game after getting beaned
Unlike many Giants fans, I’ve never bashed Hector Sanchez. He’s a backup catcher. His bat isn’t all that great, but every once...
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2.9K1Oakland AthleticsLost Vegas: A’s drop two to Cubs, Melvin explains plans for Semien and Crisp
I’ve just returned from a quick weekend in Las Vegas where I watched the A’s drop a pair of exhibition games to...
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3.4K4San Francisco GiantsApologies to the grounds crew – apparently the Chicago Cubs are total cheapskates
A common question posed after Tuesday night’s debacle in Wrigley Field went along the lines of, “How does this sort of thing...
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2.9K1Buster PoseyGiants win weird, controversial, entertaining and exhausting series in Chicago
This series had a rain delay that lasted almost 20 times longer than the rain shower that caused it, a protest, spiders...
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2.4K7Brandon Belt
Giants win tarp protest, may lose Belt for the season
Good news first, and this was unexpected: Source: Giants prevail in protest of tarp-snafu game. Game to be resumed at 4 pm...
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3.3K4Jon MillerGame called due to incompetence of Cubs grounds crew, Giants will probably protest
The above picture shows my favorite part of Tuesday/Wednesday’s debacle: Mike Krukow looking angry enough to declaw a lion with his own...
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6.0K4Mike KrukowWrigley Field grounds crew lollygags, Mike Krukow calls it a “staged” effort to give Cubs rain-shortened victory
Update No. 2: Mike Krukow was no less upset during his segment on KNBR this morning. “I’ve never been so pissed off...
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2.4K3Angel PaganIn some ways, the game is getting easier for Tim Hudson at age 38
To be considered one of the best, one must perform well at every opportunity or doubt starts creeping in. Tim Hudson was...
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2.8K2Nate SchierholtzSamardzija gets a beer shower, Schierholtz gets a little revenge (yeah, the Giants got beat)
Even though Jeff Samardzija came in with no wins and the Cubs were 1-9 in his starts, this wasn’t a game that...
