Chicago Cubs
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An ultimate indignity in the makingOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - This isn't funny anymore, though many nationwide are laughing. In nearly a century of ignominy, the Cubs are on the brink of the ultimate ignominy, and not just because ...
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Cubs-D'Backs series by the numbersOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Here's a look at some interesting numbers from the Cubs-Diamondbacks series: 3 Consecutive months that Cubs relief pitcher Carlos Marmol has surrendered 2 runs during th...
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Cubs exposed as being the CubsOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Only the cruel would refer to the 2007 Cubs as a fraud. But in the end, to paraphrase Dennis Green, a former head coach of another Arizona team, "They were what we shoul...
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$300 million team gets nickel-and-dimed to deathOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - It's all over but the pouting. That's sure to go on for weeks, because this one was ugly, if not totally unexpected, even though the Cubs had no goat to blame, no curse ...
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In baseball, one man's pressure another man's dream come trueOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - His team down a run in the bottom of the ninth, of the seventh game of the World Series, Mark Grace stood at home plate and stared out at Mariano Rivera. Grace knew he w...
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Issues for Cubs to address if they plan to avoid a sweepOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Thursday night had long since turned to Friday morning Chicago time when Cubs second baseman Mark DeRosa was doing his best to cheer up everybody in sight, inclu...
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Cubs tickets, like hopes, plummetOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Spendthrifts -- and Diamondback fans -- likely are the only ones celebrating the two Cubs losses in Arizona. They caused ticket prices for today's games to start tanking...
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D'backs relish 'fun' atmosphere at WrigleyOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Diamondbacks have the Cubs right where they want them. And not only because they own a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five NLDS, which the D'backs could wrap up with anothe...
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D'backs' 'Livo' knows the drillOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Playoff experience is overrated. At least, that seemed to be proven in the first two games of this divisional playoff series when the younger Arizona Diamondbacks pounde...
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Emotions in postseason impossible to duplicateOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. Lou Pinella's message seems to be to get everyone to relax. Is that possible in an elimination game? A. It's difficult. You can't duplicate the atmosphere in postseas...