The Cubs play their last game in the desert today against the Arizona Diamondbacks….well a split squad of D’backs that is. When pitchers and catchers reported 6 weeks ago there were the usual expectations that surrounds every Cubs team at the beginning of spring training. But this year there was an entirely new feeling of [...]

Spring Training Game Twenty-Nine – Cubs 4 Rockies 4 – 10 innings The second to last game at HoHoKam was once again a capacity crowd. This is just a guess but I do not think it had anything to do with the Cubs taking on the Colorado Rockies. Mark Prior was making his final Cactus [...]

Spring Training Game Twenty-Eight – Cubs 13 Royals 10 – 10 innings WP – Federico Baez (1-0) LP – Thad Markray (0-1) Spring training is a time to get the wrinkles ironed out, make sure all of the tweaks of winter are taken care of by the first of April. But the performances of Rich [...]

Spring Training Game Four – Cubs 2 White Sox 13 WP – Jon Garland (1-0) LP – Rich Hill (0-1) The Cubs Cactus League record did not improve on Sunday afternoon against the White Sox as they dropped to 0-3-1. While winning spring training games is not the top priority, playing sound baseball should be [...]

Spring Training Game Three – Cubs 5 A’s 5 – 10 innings While the game was not listed as a split squad contest, it might as well have been for the Cubs. Most of the Cubs’ marquee names were absent from Phoenix Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Wade Miller made his spring debut against the [...]

Spring Training Game Two – Cubs 6 Angels 9 WP – Nick Green (1-0) LP – Clay Rapada (0-1) Save – Ryan Aldridge (1) The second game of the spring training schedule for the Cubs had the same result as the first but with a couple of different storylines. The Cubs’ offense was much improved [...]

Spring Training Game One – Cubs 2 Giants 9 WP – Barry Zito (1-0) LP – Jason Marquis (0-1) The scene was the same as years past when the Cubs opened their Cactus League schedule on Thursday. HoHoKam Park was as beautiful as always, the grass the perfect shade of green and it made everyone [...]

Greetings and salutations from Mesa….In a few short hours Pat Hughes will casually utter those words as he has so many times in the past from beautiful HoHoKam Park. Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air and that means just one thing….the 2007 season is upon us, well at least the exhibition season. But the [...]

Game Twenty-Seven: Cubs 4 White Sox 4 Updated 10:19pm C.S.T. It was a nice 75 degrees in Mesa and manufacturing runs was on the horizon. Greg Maddux was on the mound against the fast working Mark Buherle. Many sox fans were in the park and unfortunately with all their World Series gear on….I don’t blame [...]