Today's Cubs birthdays feature a guy named Shorty, a World Series hero (for another team), and the throw-in for the Bruce Sutter trade.
The A/V Club features an interview with birthday boy Shorty. He talks about his time playing for Leo Durocher, among other things.
I finally got around to chronicling my trip to Arizona. You can read it here. It's called "Father Knows Nothing: Middle Aged Road Trip"
In today's Cubs news, the throwback 1920s road uniform the Cubs will wear this year gets good reviews, the Wrigleyville community meeting with the Cubs was held (without incident), Javy Baez may be tearing it up, but he won't be making the opening day roster, and it appears that Mike Olt could become this year's opening day starter at third base.