Mike Imrem
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Too young to have all the answersOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Athletes like Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris speak, journalists breathlessly scribble their thoughts, and fans digest them as gospel. As escapes from reality go, t...
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Only fair to say Sox, Cubs both failedOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The responses to the Cubs' and White Sox' playoff stink-outs are more amusing than Tina Fey. The Dodgers swept the Cubs in three games and the Cubs are considered failur...
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Baseball, like life, not fairOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - This isn't fair, but life and sports rarely are. If life were, our stock portfolios wouldn't be dropping like the Cubs and the White Sox have. If baseball ...
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Pie could be piece that solves many of Cubs' suddenly burgeoning puzzlesOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - Felix Pie, feel free to step up anytime now. Your baseball team desperately needs you, among myriad other reinforcements. A week ago that didn't seem to be...
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The ultimate bad occurrenceOct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - There are no curses, jinxes or hexes. Except when it comes to the Cubs, that is. Some sort of supernatural force must be at work for a baseball franchise t...
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Colletti shows where dreams can take youOct 03, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - The winter lunches became a ritual for a while back in the 1980s. We would meet at Murphy's Bleachers across from Wrigley Field and talk about all sorts of...
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Zambrano hardly fits definition of an aceOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - A wise journeyman pitcher once made a wise journeyman observation. "There are a lot of No. 1 pitchers," he said, "but there are only a few aces." A burning question arou...
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Panic room filling upOct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - It's just one game, no reason to fret, no reason to panic. Yeah, right. When it comes to the Cubs - who haven't played in a World Series since 1945 or won one since 1908...
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Piniella, Torre two old prosSep 30, 2008 11:00 pm - They're two older, worldly, battle-tested baseball managers. Tonight they'll probably be inflicted with a few more wrinkles when Dodgers and the Cubs play a National Lea...
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Piniella just latest not to get itSep 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Lou Piniella doesn't get it. No Cubs manager, coach, player or general manager has during the past several decades. Leo Durocher didn't. Dallas Green didn't. Andy MacPha...