Tag Archives: Chicago Cubs
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/29/2013 — Dioner Navarro
Chicago Cubs catcher Dioner Navarro entered yesterday’s game against the Chicago White Sox with just three home runs on the season, but by the end of the afternoon, he would successfully double that total while leading his team to victory. Navarro stepped to the plate four times on the day, and he would make the [...]
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Wife Gives Husband a Beer Shower At Cubs Game (Video)
A beer shower seems like an appropriate reaction from a woman after her man has just allowed a home run ball to hit her in the head. As for instances when a man attempts to protect his woman from a fly ball into the stands? Well, we’d never expect to see a beer shower then, [...]
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Julio Borbon: Decent Ballplayer, Terrible Actor (Video + GIF)
The flopping epidemic has already spread from soccer to hockey and basketball. In fact, it got so bad in basketball that the NBA now fines players for flopping. Now it appears this flopping business has even spread to baseball. However, ballplayers are still new to the flopping game, so they have yet to hone their [...]
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Umpire Balk! Bill Miller Goes to Punch Out Batter, then Changes Mind and Calls a Ball (Video)
Every baseball umpire worth his salt has a good punchout move that he busts out after a big strikeout. These little sprinkles of theatricality add character to the game, and pretty much everybody loves them—including the umpires themselves. Unfortunately, from time to time you’ll come across an umpire who loves doing his punchout move a [...]
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The 9 Worst Performances of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at Wrigley Field
The Chicago Cubs recently announced that they have decided to pull the plug on a Wrigley Field tradition: celebrity guests singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the 7th inning stretch. The reason? Well, I think ostensibly it’s to return to the more old-fashioned ballpark traditions and make the games less about out-of-town [...]
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Seven Years Later, Adam Greenberg Got His One At-Bat (Video)
It took seven years, a lot of hard work, a dedicated fan, and a baseball team eliminated from the post season and looking for a gimmick to sell a few more tickets, but last night Adam Greenberg finally got his one at-bat in the Major Leagues. We told you about Greenberg last week. On July [...]
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Baseball Player Whose Big League Career Ended On His First Pitch Will Finally Get A Second Chance
How’s your heart today? A little cold? Well, maybe this will warm it up a bit: the only man in the history of Major League Baseball to have his career end on the first pitch of his first at-bat is getting a second chance. Seven years ago, on July 9, 2005, a 24-year-old Chicago Cubs [...]
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Some Classy Cubs Fan Was Making Inappropriate Oral Gestures Behind Home Plate Monday Night (Video)
Remember when you were 13 and you discovered how to make that oral sex gesture by moving your hand back and forth and sticking your tongue in your cheek? That was hilarious for, what, like 6 months? You’d do it every time your teacher turned his or her back, or pretty much any time any [...]
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This Day In Sports History (July 26th) – Greg Maddux
It was on this day in 2005 that Greg Maddux became the thirteenth member of the 3000 strikeout club. Maddux struckout Omar Vizquel in front of his home crowd at Wrigley Field. However, the Cubs would go on to lose the game 3-2 to the Giants. Greg Maddux enjoyed an incredible career that started in [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 7/23/12 — Jeff Samardzija
In 2005, Jeff Samardzija had himself a spectacular season playing wide receiver for the University of Notre Dame’s football team. Some likely believed that he had a bright future ahead of him as an NFL receiver, but he chose to stick with his other sport; baseball. And never has that decision looked better than during [...]
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15 Classic Bill Murray Sports Moments
It seems that just about every pro sports team has at least one celebrity fan. Some teams, like the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, have whole boatloads of bandwagon fans. Others, like the St. Louis Blues and Oklahoma City Thunder, have people like Jon Hamm and Bill Hader (respectively) who stayed true to [...]
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Tom Willis, a Man Born with No Arms, Threw the First Pitch at Wrigley Field Yesterday (Video)
Man, the Chicago Cubs are on a roll these days. Not only has the team won 14 of their last 19 games to climb into…well, second-to-last place, but they’ve also had a number of interesting things happening at the beautiful (but crumbling) Wrigley Field. Last week, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler stopped by to sing [...]
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Female Cubs Fan Catches Ball With Beer Cup (Video)
With a 38-53 record on the season, the Chicago Cubs find themselves 13.5 games out in the race for top spot in the NL Central, and 12 games out of an NL Wild Card spot. Needless to say, their play on the field hasn’t been giving Cubs fan much, if anything, to get excited about, [...]
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Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Read Lineups and Throw Out First Pitch at Cubs Game (Videos)
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis star together in a new movie called “The Campaign” that opens August 10. According to IMDb, it’s about two political rivals with big ambitions who “tangle with each other.” Sounds fun. And since this is an election year and the movie is about a political campaign, the decision to turn [...]
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Jay Cutler Sings “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” At Wrigley Field (Video)
The Chicago sports scene is kind of weird. Fans will put up with a hundred years of futility and heartbreak from the Cubs, but they absolutely will not tolerate bad quarterbacks. Just ask Jay Cutler. The guy came to the Bears from Denver prior to the 2009 season, led the league with 26 interceptions, and [...]
