It happens every spring
Every spring and every team has it’s own little tree of story-lines to keep fans interested. Today’s post is dedicated to identifying the branches and twigs of Cubness that are likely to keep the...
View ArticleWildcard Wednesday: “If you type “Google” into Google, you can break the...
Wednesdays are now anything goes days here at The FBB. Today, “anything” is just a bunch of links I’ve collected over the past few days. I found this swell piece in which former New Market...
View ArticleWeek Eight: An Illustrated Review
This weekly review is brought to you in photographic form! This is what happens when the author does not time to prepare. Happy Memorial Day weekend, all! The Randy Wells sock magic continued in Texas...
View ArticleSeries Preview: The Pirates who don’t do anything (except against the Cubs)
The Cubs are set to start a three game set in Pittsburgh this afternoon at 1 PM ET. Here’s a little looksy at what might be going down at PNC Park. It grieves me that the time has finally come …...
View Article“I’m gonna go to the game. They could win. It could happen.”
I was in attendance of Monday’s contest between the Cubs and the Washington Nationals up in DC. What follows are a lot of random thoughts and details of the experience. If they seem boring or trifling...
View ArticleWildcard Wednesday: “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
Yesterday was “picture day” for the Chicago Cubs, and probably for another team or two as well. Today is picture day at the Fair Base Ballist. Enjoy the visuals… it’s just a few more days ’til we get...
View ArticlePredictorama!: Your 2011 Chicago Cubs, Part Two
A most happy MLB Opening Day to one and all! The Cubs turn doesn’t come until tomorrow afternoon, but there are several games (real games!) being played to hold us over for 24 hours. There is also...
View ArticleGM For a Day
It had reached that time of year when fans the nation over begin to put their GM caps on and think/talk about what moves they would make if they were in charge. GM caps aren’t nearly as fun to play …...
View ArticleRecapping Cubs Con: Day Two
Saturday morning kicked off with a Theo Epstein Q&A hosted by Len Kasper. (Warning: This is where my lousy note-taking skills are going to start rearing their ugly heads.) Theo cited the devoted...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye: Bryan LaHair and Randy Wells
The Cubbies 2012 first-half first baseman (and All Star, thank you very much) recently agreed to a deal that will send him to play for the SoftBank Hawks in Japan next year. Seems about right,...
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