Thursday, March 13, 2014

Just One Bad Century---March 13

Today's Cubs birthdays includes one of the great names in baseball history...Chippy Gaw. Maybe not a great player, but certainly a great name.

The A/V Club celebrates the 100th anniversary of Butch O'Hare's birth...the man they named the airport after...and a man with Chicago connections. His dad was Al Capone's lawyer.

In today's Cubs news, the future was sent back to minor league camp (Almora, Bryant, Alcantara & Soler), the Cubs ask for their first replay challenge...and lose it, Ed Sherman of the Chicago Tribune speculates about whether or not WBBM-AM may be the next radio home of the Cubs, Edwin Jackson addressed "Fastball-gate" (the controversy swirling around his last start where he threw only fastballs...a game I attended in AZ), and finally the Cubs set a spring training attendance record yesterday...and lost 13-0.

(Sigh)

It's going to be another long year, folks. Time to get the shirt that says it all...

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