Remembering Kerry Wood

As we say goodbye to one of the favorite sons of the Cubs organization, we take a look at others who remember what Kerry brought to the table and look at three three best games of his career.

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Weekly Prospect Review: The Disappointment Edition

Published on May 22nd, 20122 comment

Every week, we look through a few prospects in the Cubs’ farm system. In this post, we look at the prospects at each level of the Cubs system who I think have been the most disappointing to this point in 2012.

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Game 42: Meet the New Low

Published on May 22nd, 201221 comment

A trip to Houston to face the inconsistent Astros sounds like a perfect recipe for the Cubs to end their six-game losing streak. It wasn’t.

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Astros Series Preview

Published on May 21st, 20124 comment

The Cubs head down to Houston tonight to try to put he brakes on a 6-game losing streak. It doesn’t seem that long ago we all felt like this was a .500 team–maybe a few games down on the gulf coast will get us back on track? Find out in our series preview.

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Melting Pot: Farm Edition

Published on May 21st, 2012no comments

Very little this week in terms of Minor League nuggets concerning the Cubs, but we did get a couple for this week’s edition of the The Melting Pot.

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Game 41: Have We Hit Bottom Yet?

Published on May 21st, 201246 comment

A shutout and a sweep at the hands of the South Siders in our own ballpark, can it get worse? Chet take a look at the game that clinched the White Sox sweep.

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Game 40: There’s Still (Barely) A Heartbeat

Published on May 20th, 201216 comment

Dempster suffers from low run support yet again, but this time he hurt himself as much as the quiet bats did.

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Game 39: Cubs Lose, Wood Retires, Cubs Lose

Published on May 18th, 201252 comment

The Cubs lost this one – but the greater loss is the end of Kerry Wood’s career. Joe will have a retrospective early next week, but for now we’ll try to soak in some of the final moments of Kerry’s career. Today was the end of an era.

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Cubs / White Sox Preview

Published on May 18th, 201226 comment

Ready for a siries with the cross town rivals? We’ve got you covered with the probable pitching matchups and a look at the series from the White Sox perspective.

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Game 38: Too Little, Too Late

Published on May 18th, 201241 comment

The pitching matchup was Roy Halladay vs. Chris Volstad. We didn’t have to be psychic to know how that would turn out. A late rally made things interesting, but the Cubs fell short yet again.

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GirlieView (05/17/2012)

Published on May 17th, 201219 comment

GirlieView is a VFTB recap column on alternate Thursdays. We give our readers props for having timely and funny quotes from the past two weeks of VFTB commentary. Join us for a few good laughs!

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Positional Depth: Shortstop

Published on May 17th, 20126 comment

It’s Thursday, which means another look at the state of the farm system. Were you encouraged by the top 20 list that Norm posted yesterday? I don’t blame you, because I wasn’t either. Today we look at what the positional breakdown at the shortstop position looks like for the Cubs.

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Game 37: The Definition of Insanity = Cubs Bullpen

Published on May 17th, 201211 comment

What is the definition of insanity? Some would say it’s doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results each time. I say it’s watching the Cubs bullpen.

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