Chicago Cubs
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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...
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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...