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A guy in Utah tried to pass himself off as a member of the Chicago Cubs, signing the papers for a new pickup truck, using the ID and signing the name of a player who is a prospect of the Chicago Cubs. Tyler Colvin is the name of that player and you probably haven’t seen […]

Greg Maddux appears to have returned to the Cubs. He’s going to be the “special assistant” to general manager Jim Hendry. This means that he’ll be part talent scout, part evaluator of the team and then do some other kinds of needs for the team. It will be interesting to see how they end up […]

Andre Dawson, who made his reputation in a Cubs uniform, has been elected to the Hall of Fame, it was announced yesterday. It appears that he really earned it too, with good strong performances throughout his career. He was able to get a great on base percentage, great hitting, and especially fantastic fielding. His seasons […]

Are you a Rudy Jaramillo fan? The Cubs are hoping that by the end of the year, you will be. He’s one of the biggest names in batting coaching and we’re expecting that the team will bump up their batting ability this year to stop the continuing problems that they’ve been having. There are some […]

This week, we welcome the addition of Marlon Byrd to the Chicago Cubs. He’s an outfielder and has trained with the new hitting coach for a long time. This is going to be a good year for them, because we hopefully have found the guy that will be able to fill up the center field […]

Which team would you rather play for? The Cubs or the Nationals? There is a lot of talk right now about the future of Matt Capps. It seemed possible that Capps was going to come in as a great set-up man for the Cubs this year. But the announcement of the signing was much too […]

Although he has a no-trade clause in his contract, there are reports that Carlos Zambrano was the subject of a discussion between the Cubs and the Yankees last week. Let’s be clear, his agent and Cubs representatives say that this isn’t the case. This would lead us to wonder what the source of the rumor […]

Jim Hendry came out and apologized for the fact that the Milton Bradley trade didn’t work out the way it was supposed to for the 2009 season. Today it was announced that they had inked a deal with Seattle to get Bradley out of town and bring in a pitcher named Carlos Silva who might […]

The rumor this weekend was that the Cubs were interested in getting Matt Capps from the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates have struggled a lot lately, but their closer was very talented in previous years. He had a tough time this season, but in previous seasons was fairly dominant. The rumor is that the Cubs might […]

The Cubs were relatively quiet at the winter owners meeting this week. There was a lot of buzz that they were going to trade Milton Bradley here or there, but nothing has happened yet. The Rangers haven’t taken him and neither have the Mets, Rays, or anyone else. It’s become the talk of the city […]