Chicago Cubs
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Cubs' big three come up emptyOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Call them the Cubs' big three, but they came up a big zero in the first-round sweep at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks. ...
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Cubs notebook: How much will Cubs change this winter?Oct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - "Wait 'til next year" is the annual refrain around Wrigley Field for the last century. Current manager Lou Piniella said before Saturday's season-ending 5-1 loss to Ariz...
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Change of scenery for Game 3Oct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Not much seems to faze these Arizona Diamondbacks. Not the fact that they scored fewer runs than their opponents and still won the tough National League West. Not that t...
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Az. view: Wrigley Field just a beautiful disasterOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - It's April of 1988, and a 23-year-old first baseman for the Chicago Cubs is walking from the on-deck circle to home plate. Mark Grace knows he should be thinking about t...
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Same old refrain for Chicago
Oct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - No funky foul balls, black cats or cursed goats to pin this one on. In fact, some crazy Cubs fan - is there any other kind? - actually hung what appeared to be a dead, s...
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Wrigley Field gets extreme makeoverOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Cubs may not be in great shape down 2-0 heading into today's crucial Game 3, but the playing surface in the Wrigley Field outfield sure is. Or at least it looks that...
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Hill wants to ignore pressure situationOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Asked to select the biggest game he'd ever pitched in his career, Rich Hill hemmed and hawed, thought for a moment, then reached into his memory bank and pulled ...
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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...